A Memorable Christmas part the second

Hazel outside "our" cabin.

And..festivities inside same cabin..

From the deck of same cabin.

All in all a great place to celebrate Christmas in a Christmas-card setting!

A Memorable Christmas..

At Storm Mountain, taken by Hazel with her new camera.

Dave Brubeck

Having been trained as a classical musician, and growing up in a household where jazz and pop music were considered below contempt - what an eye opener and education it was to hear Brubeck's early albums. It was when I was at University, living away from home, that the epiphany hit me. How much he did for the music world - my experience listening to him was equal to my first exposure to Glenn Gould's Bach.

For me, the two artists changed my vision of what music really means.

Thank you Dave. Thank you Glenn.

My sins..

So tonight I am going to bbq some sausages - then realised I have not cleaned the bbq for some time - so (at minus 15C) got the gloves, the scrubbers, etc. Now our "new" (last spring) bbq is very easy to clean - the grills and heat deflectors lift out easily, into the kitchen sink, an SOS pad (Brillo for you brits) and all is well.

But then I took out the drip pan - talk about YECHHHHHHH...congealed and frozen fat and unidentified drippings... had to soak it in hot water, and (looking away) disposed of the remains in the garbage container...

And now all is clean until the next bout - tonight - with the sausages.

Will be bbqing on the back deck at -15C.

What fun.