re: Extreme cold weather home and garden preparation tips

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string as many incandescent lights as you can, preferably c9s, in the foliage, cover it with burlap

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This may be a stupid question, but is there not a fire risk with that? I haven't touched one in years but those bastards used to get hot as hell back on Christmas trees.

That said, we never burned our house down and they were on what amounted to oiled up pine tree.