They got the Christmas novelty now holding 1,200 lights from Strautman Tree Farm in Story County. A worker at the farm said the tree broke a record for being the largest one ever sold at the farm.

If you have a stucco roof, you know how hard it can be to hang lights on your roof. Never glue to the stucco on your home, Hunsaker said, because if you try to tear them off, "you will lose an ...