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Christmas Letter 2022 Season's Greetings, Bah Humbug, and other assorted holiday salutations. More and more the years simply blend together and I'm not sure what happened when. I'm not even sure what happened this year vs. last! "Time Marching On" is a tune I'm really tired of listening to.
It's been another year of the same old same old at the South 40. Gardening, chickening, blackberrying, maintenancing, mowing, grassing, logging, treeing, and musicing when we can. We went to a couple of festivals, various pickings, and Trish is becoming more and more noted as a bass player extraordinaire! We do try to take a break once a day (weather permitting) for beer and to enjoy the always changing view of the pond and surrounding hillsides from our deck. Trish and Jami did a couple of their usual girls' getaway jaunts. First to OKC and Ft. Worth, and next to the Shangri La resort near Grove. One event of note: Trish and I celebrated our 30th anniversary this year. I gave Trish a case of Dos Equis for our 20th. For this one the best I could do was make a label and tell her to imagine! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My mother passed away this year at the age of 96. She lived a long full life. For family, and others who might be interested, I've prepared a memorial page. A short biography of her life is also available. |
Farm ReportWe currently have eight head of chicken. Our Russky chicken passed away this year. We were surprized, she wasn't that old. The oldest two are still hale and hearty and going strong. We had another good blackberry year and the hay crop was decent. I still run the garden year around and am rewarded with daily fresh picked kale and spinach. Construction ReportWe've gone from construction to repair. There's always something. Music ReportWe did a couple of benefit gigs again, and had assorted pickings during the course of the year. Festivalwise we didn't do the biggie (Winfield) this year. We did go to a couple of smaller music festivals: In the spring, the DYI Festival at Greenleaf State Park and in the fall, the Tallgrass Music Festival in Skiatook. They were very pleasant and we had a really good time at both of them. Trish's bass playing talents have been much in demand this year. She's enjoying playing ocassionally with the all girl band "I'm Not Lisa" and quite frequently with the well known fiddler Shelby Eicher. Be sure to visit the Music Pix page! 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. |