Thanks for your recipe; but especially for your memories.
I’ve got many boxes of never-used bubble lights; I started buying them up in the ‘90s wherever I found them, because I remembered them from the Christmas trees of relatives.
We’ve also got a lot of C-7s, wired and replacements. I’m always thinking of what will happen when everything goes to those LED ‘jewel’ colors, that don’t look anything like Christmas lights, to folks of my age ;-)
-JT
They are glaringly bright and cold and artificial looking.
There is a warmth to the incandescents.