It's that time again...

Well the wife and I have begun the annual summer Christmas light show inventory habit.
We began by separating the mega tree lights in their proper packet of lights, properly wrapped the extension cords, put the proper lights in the proper totes, taking notes on what was damaged and what needs to be replaced.

You know it's a good time when the wife will say she'll have a beer with me!   Or it's the fact that its 90 plus degrees out in the sun. Even the crickets refuse to make noise due to the hot weather.
Neighbors looks at us with weird looks on their face...maybe it's because of me whistling the tune of White Christmas as we do all this work.

Has anybody else started to do their display work yet or is it too soon?

I don't do Halloween with the lights and stuff. We have very few people coming (none in the past 5 years!!!). I like to concentrate all my time on the Christmas one instead. 

Slacker! Have 80% of the sequencing done, with the remainder pending additional light and controller moola. Going "blueless" this year as the darned things fade in no time, and the price vs quality vs safety vs on-time delivery of LEDs is dubious at best.

Just a forewarning, DPS. The purples tend to look like red at a distance, so space accordingly. Had to restring my megas in the 11th hour last year because of that.

If you keep the reds away from the purples, all will be fine. My initial config was Red, Green, Blue, White, Purple - with the arrangement repeating. As you can see, on the second iteration, red is next to purple. What I ended up doing was moving the purple in between green and blue - and avoided lighting up the reds any time the purple was on.