Lights Action

We have lights on our house, Looks so nice, but there is a story behind putting them up.
Ok picture this, Redding, December . The tree was up the lights were purchased for the exterior, but someone needed to get on a ladder. Someone bought one of those light hanger thingies, You know you can stand on the ground and put them up? NO Way, that ws someones idea to make money and the product not work for all types of gutters and shingles.
OK we have the kind of shingles that are folded and hip for the new roofs, The 20 dollar gadget did not work for us, I tried and you all know I can usually do things like that, So the only logical thing to do is "Get the Ladder stupid, before you lose your cool". I had maybe 30 feet hung when David came home, seems he had an errand to run, (hope it was my christmas gift). Anyway we did get all the gutter clips up and lights hung, looked georgous.
Now on to the peak above the garage, We moved the ladder around and I climbed up as far as I could reach, That did not work, then we got the extension ladder, That too would not reach, Number one, your dad had it backward, I kept saying this feels wrong, When I stepped on the first step, I knew it was wrong, the rungs or feet were slanted the wrong way, OK, no big deal turn it around. Still can not reach the last 8 feet of the roof line on one side so the other side was not gonna reach either.
So we made a dicision, or David made a decision, He would Go onto the roof. Did you know this is the steepest roof in the world? First he went up and was really nervous, I could see it he lay down to try to put the shingle clips in, (he has no feeling in his left hand so going up was a mistake,)
Now it is my turn, I tell him to come down, He did, he scooted down on his butt, all the time saying 'Man this roof is stet," NOw you all know he walked around on several of our roofs in the past, no problem.
The lights had to go up, he knew I was the only one left to climb the ladder to the top. When I stepped from the ladder to the roof, it felt like the roof was almost straight up. I crab walked to the peak. I then lay across the peak and tried to reach the other side, Nope had to go over the peak, about 5 feet then I grabbed the lights and clipped them, I clipped about every 2 feet, then back over the peak.
Whew almost got that done, I kept thinking I can do this, I need up here like I need another hole in my head, Finally I got it all clipped, all the time lying on my tummy, my sweater got pushed up by the way I was scooting, my pant leg was up to my knee, also from scooting. Got it!!! I am done, now to scoot my way back down to the edge, I was so glad to get off that roof, and by the way, Yes, my Christmas lights will stay up all year. I am much too old to be crawling around on the roof. Dont you think?
Today I did not wake up until almost 9 am, That is really late for me and my neck burns like fire. But Hey we have a semi decorated house. Think the other 280 feet of light will go somewhere else. Like maybe around the pool next spring.
So how did you spend the evening yesterday, and yes it was getting dark when I got off the house.