It's a nice green one this year. I do like the traditional white Christmases, the stillness that comes over everything after freshly-fallen snow. Just not the cold temperatures and all the shoveling that goes with such an idyllic Noel. Bah humbug to that shit..
I had a minor jaunt today, to the home of some friends out near Mechanicsburg. A nice 20-minute drive, with plenty of rolling hills, perfect on a sunny day. This friend is a former guitar student- who, like me, has a passion for home recording. I added a couple guitar parts to a couple of his tunes, and look forward to hearing the finished product one of these days. He put me to work today--the songs often have a million chord changes in them--but fun work..
Christmas Day will be spent with my brother, just us old guys. . If you're on Medicare, you're old . He's 65 and I'm 69. No getting around it. So there are two recliners in his living room which we plop our geriatric selves into.. We watch a couple hours of TV and talk about this, that, and the other. Hopefully with a few laughs in there. Sometimes we bicker a bit, in true sibling fashion. At some point, he lets me know when he's had enough company, and I paddle home.
This has been a crazy year. Problems with my roof, a potential health problem on top of my head-- on my roof! The demise of my 14-year-old cat Cindy. The roof has been repaired, the thing on my head was deemed benign, and I have two new cats. So at least those things have been fixed. Of course, I still miss Cindy, who was with me for 14 years in there..
In this next year, and those to come, I plan to just keep doing what I'm doing: playing and writing music. And sharing it with you guys. Mostly here in the Music Lab, but I still play gigs here and there. I have one booked for November 1st of next year, and am reasonably sure something else will fill in.
Thanks as ever for stopping in and reading. Merry Christmas--however you want to say it--to everybody who's reading this(both of you!), whether it's Facebook or maybe YouTube or who-knows-where.
PS The picture was taken sometime in 1985. I was 31 years old, on the road with a band. We travelled in a beat-up old Schoolbus(shades of the Partridge family!). The hat I got someplace in Texas. PPS today's tune is called Blues on a Hot Fudge Sunday. It sounds a little bit like Western Swing. Hope you like it.
