Christmas Brrrrade 2013! If you are from the Midwest or the eastern part of the country and you're reading this, I imagine that you have been bundled under layers and dreading the electric and gas bills that will be following this month. Well as a Wyoming resident, my deepest sympathies go out to you. Just two weeks ago my family and friends that live east of the Mississippi were all feeling so bad for us Wyomingites with our temperatures below zero and even worse for us on the mountain: 3,000 feet higher and 10 degrees lower. Now, I'm afraid, we have pushed the chill your way. But here in the west, we don't let threats of frostbite stop our Christmas spirit! Despite the thermometer needles making obtuse angles from the zero marker, we bridled up our draft horses and prepared for the annual Buffalo Christmas parade. We partner with two other Buffalo businesses to create a masterpiece float every year and the 2013 parade's Christmas movie theme brought many creative options to our brainstorming meeting with Sport's Lure and Clear Creek Printers. We decided on the “The Grinch”. Other preparation included multiple practice sessions with Betty and Beauty, our gorgeous sister Belgian Draft horses. Three months is a little too long of a vacation for our horses to jump right back into hard work so the guys practiced driving them while pulling the wagon that was soon to transform into Whoville. With three pairs of pants, eight shirts, three pairs of socks, hats, mittens, hand warmers, travel mugs of hot coco, and a partridge in a pear tree, we headed down the mountain for a night full of numbed fingers and tons of fun. When I saw my handy weather app on my phone say “feels like -28” I truly...