Musing

Hi Mark. Just catching up on my emails. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year toyou and yours. I enjoy reading your musings even though I don't reply very much any more. Keep up the good work, NMB, Balzac

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I choose to celebrate the "holiday season" from October 31 to January 6th or so....and although some days are more active than other, I much prefer not peaking for a particular day. As it turns out, I usually spend Christmas Day alone, and enjoy reflecting on what has happened, and yet to come. It is comfortable, and by the time the season it is over, it ends gently, not abruptly. I like that. Thanks for another year of great musing, Mark...all the best to you in 200, NC, Coupville

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Hi Mark, Merry Christmas to you and your family. Thanks so much for driving out to Banff to see us. The holiday was fabulous in every way and sadly too short. We'd already decided that it's one place we'll definitely be back to visit again. Canada didn't disappoint. The place was lovely, kind people, great food, wonderful snow, breathtaking scenery. Ed and I walked along the Bow River to the falls and looked out over the frozen river across to the Banff Springs Hotel, admiring all the lovely houses along the route, played pebble bowls on the ice, bought corny souvenirs for family and friends, skied down Mount Norquay at night, rode out to Sunshine Village and froze on the top of Mount Standish, skidded around at Lake Louise, boiled like lobsters at the hot springs on Sulphur Mountain and regularly raided the hotel breakfast buffet like condemned men. We saw mountain sheep, elk, the biggest crow ever, sunrises, sunsets and snow on Christmas eve just in time for Santa. You are so lucky to live in such a wonderful place. It's worth the exhausting journey and the bizarre sense of jet lag just to spend a short time there. And what's more, you can go out to dinner wearing jeans. Season's greetings to all from damp, dull Suffolk, SK, Suffolk, UK