Holiday spectaculars

Stock up now for Christmas 2022!

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— Photo by V Smoothe

Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

‘In the increasingly ferociously competitive world of front-yard Christmas displays, my favorites are those dominated by inflated figures – Santa, reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, the Holy Family and so on – usually supplemented by florid lighting and sometimes even by a Christmas tune, secular or religious.

From across the street, you can often hear the figures wheezing like asthmatics as the air pumps keep them upright, until the pumps are turned off or the characters spring leaks and fall flat on the ground.

Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!

Whatever you think of the aesthetics, these displays are very profitable amusements for your local utility.