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Grungy Tea Light Candle Battery Operated Blow On-Off
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$3.99
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Hee hee.
Before we get started on the description of the tea light I've got a true cat tale to tell. When the kids were little one of our relatives moved into an apartment that didn't take animals. We agreed to take their two cats, Fred and Fluffy. Fred had FIV, the feline version of AIDS which started our family on a FIV cat adoption thing but that's a whole other story which we won't get into right now.
Fluffy was a fairly intelligent long-hair calico and very beautiful. Fred was actually her brother from the same litter. He was ANYTHING but intelligent or beautiful. Fred was a reddish-orange tabby with a big nose, eyes which were too closely set and he was long and thin. Fred wasn't the brightest crayon in the box as far as cats go. Fred, however, was very affectionate so that in itself was enough to endear him to us from the start.
Although he was FIV positive, we permitted him to go outside because Fred rarely left the front porch. On the occasions that he did leave the front porch, it was merely to go to the back porch.
When Fred was ready to come back into the house, one of his methods of getting our attention was to jump up on the front porch lounger and from there leap up to a higher window in the foyer. Then he would sit there and meow until we noticed that he wanted in. Now this window was right next to the front door. Often on his leap back down to the lounger, Fred's back feet would hit the doorbell.
One day my neighbor Phyllis was over and we were standing in the foyer chatting while she was getting ready to leave. Fred was on the ledge outside of the foyer window. As he jumped down his back feet hit the doorbell which, as one might expect, rang.
When it was clear to her that I wasn't attending to it, Phyllis said "Aren't you going to answer the door?"
I said, "No, it's just the cat."
Phyllis cocked her head and looked at me with that Linet's lost it look on her face. I walked to the front door, opened it and Fred walked in. Phyllis stood there, stunned and speechless, assuming that it was just a normal thing in my home for the cat to ring the doorbell when he wanted in.
Anyhoo, this battery operated tea light reminds me of the Fred-doorbell story. Naturally, I had to try these out. Son-of-a-gun, they worked just like the instructions read that they would. I took one upstairs to my teenage son's room where he was playing video games with a friend.
I said, "Hey, Devon, check out this candle. See, it's battery-operated." I flipped the switch on the bottom and the bulb flickered on.
Devon mumbled, "Yeah, so?" Then I put it down on the night stand and blew it out. Silence. Devon gave me that same look that Phyllis did when I told her that the cat wanted in after the doorbell rang. That same she's insane look.
In a nutshell, that's how this candle works. Flip the switch and blow it out. Then blow it back on if you like. On and off all day if you've got the time and inclination. It's not quite like whistling, it's more of the kind of a puff you might need to blow out a bunch of candles on a birthday cake but it does indeed work.
The battery-operated candle measures about 1 3/8 inches in diameter and 3/4 of an inch high. It's approximately the same size as a wax tea light and should fit into standard tea light holders. It runs on two AG 13 batteries. The candle comes with batteries installed but it's been my experience that the batteries that come with these things don't hold charge for long so plan on replacing the batteries fairly soon. The color is called Cinnamon Mustard which is nice and grungy but there's not really a detectable cinnamon fragrance at all to this one.
This battery-operated-blow-on-blow-off tea light candle comes new from The Hearthside Collection as shown without individual packaging.
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