Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for December 27, 2017

Excellent. Now wind them up around a cardboard tube (or similar object) and store them for next year.

I am very lucky. Nobody can see our house from the street. So there is no sense in decorating the outside. We are very Christmassy on the inside, though.

Home alone, they left an hour ago to see The Last Jedi.

You are not done yet – the next step is to find the burned out bulbs.