Christmas Letter 2019

Weather-wise we've been pretty lucky this year considering the mayhem that's been going on in the rest of the country.  All we've had is some minor flooding.

We did a grand tour of old country cemeteries in the spring.  Trish's ancestors have been in the midwest for quite a while and quite a few are buried in the Jefferson City, MO area.  We spent a few days exploring every nook and cranny to find old country grave yards.  Thank God for GPS!  Some of those cemeteries were stuck so far out in the fringes of nowhere that we never would have found them otherwise.  Weather was beautiful, spring was springing, it was a very pretty trip.

Trish did a couple of grand tours again.  She went to Hawaii with her niece and children.  She did her yearly jaunt with Jami and they went back to Hermann, MO.  Evidently they missed a few bottles of wine the first time ;-)  As usual, yours truly got to stay home and babysit the cat and the chickens.  Good trade? 

So -- it's been a pretty normal SOSO year:  Trish continues as docent at the Tallgrass Prairie, we're still to be found round about picking and sometimes even grinning, we both take care of our mothers, etc.

We hope you all are doing well.  We wish you a Merry Christmas, a joyous Holiday Season, and all the best for the coming year.

Farm Report

 We currently have eight head of chicken.  Trish says that's too many.  Some of the old girls were supposed to die, but they stubbornly refuse to pass on!  Bumper crop of plums and blackberries this year.  The freezer is full. Hay crop was decent.  I still run the garden year around and am still eating fresh picked kale and spinach.

Construction Report

We've gone from construction to repair.  There's always something.

Music Report

We had quite a few pickings this year and some interesting rather different gigs.  We sang for our supper at a soup kitchen (we thought it prudent to remove songs like "Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?" from our repertoire). We played at the 100th anniversary of our local feed store --  and got nicely fed.  To name a few.   A few words about our band.  It's a pickup band made up of whoever is available at the moment and is rarely the same band twice.  We're searching for an appropriate name.  We've been going by "Free and Worth It" for several years but that's self defeating.   Who's going to want to pay?  I've been lobbying for "Box of Chocolates" but nobody seems to pick up on it.  How quickly they forget!

For the auditorially challenged, I've added a couple video clips to the Cacophony page.  As ususal, musicians will not want to go there.

 

Anyone passing this way is always welcome to drop in and sit a spell. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season and we wish you all the best for the coming year.