I recently visited some friends of mine who live in the country on a converted farm. It was nice getting out of the city for a few days. More impressive is that this city boy didn’t get killed while being out in the wild. Yes, I mean wild. My friend took me for a walk in their woods and told me to carry the “trouble stick” since he was holding the leash for their 100 pound boxer dog. I ask what the “trouble stick” is for he said in case the coyotes get too close again. EXCUSE ME! What do you mean again? Back to the issue at hand.
They were clearly in the holiday season since all of their farm buildings and their home were decorated in blue and white holiday lights. I live in manhattan and there are not too many holiday lights so I am not to up to date on what the different colors mean. So the question I am asking is what do you think they were trying to signify with their blue and white lights? Every correct answer wins a “trouble stick”.
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Are they Jewish? I’m not Jewish, but I believe that blue & silver are the colors of Hanukkah. My “guess” is that they’re using the blue lights to celebrate Hanukkah and that it’s probably impossible to buy blue lights at the average Target, Walmart, Home Depot, etc.
FYI, last weekend my wife was baking cookies for some Jewish friends at work and she went to the grocery store to buy blue sprinkles (aka: jimmies, shots, etc.). Can you guess what happened? She found tons of red and green ones (and multicolored), but no blue. Hmmm. Sounds like an opportunity for blue-holiday-decorations.com
The only time i have seen blue and white was at jewish homes. But nope, these are good christians. The blue and white is for the virgin mary. They think all the homes with blue lights are celebrating the virign mary. I think they had a bit too sheltered a childhood if they honestly think that. Oh Vey!
Maybe they’re just putting too much of grandpa’s cough medicine in their egg nog? To each his own.
Did you know Pepsi Jazz and Mac laptop keyboards don’t mix? Seriously, how long does one have to live in NYC to begin to call themselves a cityboy? Do you get extra credit for graduating from Columbia or NYU? Is proximity of hometown factored in or is it a one to one ratio, years in city balanced by years growing up near city?
Regardless, the lights sound nice. One of the bad things about being overseas is there is an appalling lack of Christmas lights. The housing here is too small for any real good displays. However, I have to hand it to the Japanese, there have been some rather entertaining Christmas displays.