PHIL IN THE BLANK: A cold world

Snow and ice arrived later than before this winter season. I was wearing shorts just a couple weeks ago!
That lulled me into a sense of complacency, and I found myself lacking in proper gear last Thursday for my afternoon run, when it got down into the 20s. Oh yeah, I though, I’m supposed to bring my winter hat and gloves when it gets this cold.
The experience reminded me of the cryotherapy machine at Clarkston Chiropractic, which they were demonstrating at their open house a few weeks back.
The cryotherapy is better, even though it’s a couple hundred degree colder. Much drier and of shorter duration.
Drivers were also caught off guard by the cold, getting themselves into a horrifyingly huge pile up on I-75 Saturday afternoon during white-out conditions. I spun out and totaled my car on an icy I-69 in 2012, so I know some of what they went through.
I missed this one, though, on my way into town for the Holiday Lights Parade. I got caught in the traffic jam down Dixie Highway, but I still made the parade in time.
Excellent work on those lighted floats and Depot Park decorations. Folks were in high spirits even though it was cold and kind of wet.
The tree in the park is beautiful. I consider it a “Christmas tree,” even though officially it probably isn’t, since it’s a government-sanctioned event.
Whatever it is, it looks very nice.
The parade wasn’t long, which was fine because it was a cold one. I wasn’t sorry to see Santa ride by on his float.
The hot chocolate they were handing out in Depot Park after the parade was much appreciated. That was about the best hot chocolate I’ve ever had.
Christmas will warm things up for awhile next week, but I didn’t step foot outside my house all day Sunday, during the school-canceling snowfall. They showed the Disney flick “Frozen,” Sunday night.
That helped a little bit.
“The cold doesn’t bother me anyway,” I plaintively sang along with Elsa, while bundled up in two blankets on my easy chair with two full grown cats on my lap.

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