We have regular icicle lights for outside of the house but have wanted LED ones for a while. They just cost so much less to run and there isn’t the fight to find which bulb in the string is the broken one every year. The only problem with most of the LED ones we saw was the seizure inducing glow they make…it just doesn’t look natural and we really weren’t fans.

After Christmas Andy picked up a few boxes of LED icicle lights at 1/2 price. They were solar powered, but the only ones we could find that had the natural looking light we liked. Handy Andy daisy chained the strings together so they can plug into a regular outlet now. He also ran extra wire through each strand to minimize resistance (or at least that’s what he told me, I don’t really know what that means). We went from 230 watt lights to 15 watts, not too bad.

This post isn’t really about Andy’s tinkering though. It’s about Jack. We knew he wanted to chew them but when we told him “no” he plopped down right next to them. His little kitty eyes said “I’m not being bad, I’m not doing a thing.” Reminded me of another little monster we have in the house ;-)

Ben, Jack and I have just come to accept it, Colby is Andy’s favorite. The petting, purrs, snuggling, baby talk…all this lovin’ makes me sick I tell ya :-P