My mom came up to me last week and asked; “You know those lights we got out of the trash? Could you wire them up so we can have light on the back porch?” It seams that several months ago, we saw these light out for trash pick up, and we picked them up. I thought they were bridge lights, but it turns out they are buoy lights. No, I haven’t found any guirl lights. 
Anyway, the lights had no light socket inside, in fact they had nothing inside of them at all. I had been pondering for a while how to get a bulb in there at the correct height. Then it dawned on me one day, to use them electric candles that I see in people’s windows around Christmas time. The plug in kind with the night light bulb in them. Since I didn’t want a lot of heat inside of these things, they are sealed and so they have no ventilation for the heat to escape, I also bought some LED nigh-light bulbs, the ones equivalent to a 15 watt bulb. I cut some wood to stand the candles on, so the the bulbs would be placed at about the proper height in the lights, and wired them up.
I also have a railroad light, that my mom had given me for my birthday. I decided that out on the porch, near the railroad, was a good place for it. The cord it came with, came out of a hole in the top of the light, very unfinished looking. So I bought a masthead and mounted that to the light. I rewired that light with the same electrical cord that I used for the buoy lights, and ran that wire into a junction box, that I had mounted inside the storage cabinet. Then I ran a wire to a household light switch, in a metal switch-box, that I also affixed inside the cabinet, and ran a plug to the outside outlet. In the Railroad light I put another LED bulb, 60 watt equivalent. Now our porch can be all lit up at night.
I think I need to lower the bulb in the red one just a bit. I will get around to it someday.
