MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A WOUNDERFULL NEW YEAR
Tom
Greetings to Alaska and very best wishes to you, Tom!
Tom
All the best to you, Tom. Hope youâre well and fluting all over the place!
Susan
Tom!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!
Blessed New Year with Peace for All!
Keep in touch, and keep warm, Friend!
Mary
Hey all, Merry Christmas and happy fluting!
Max
Merry Christmas, Tom (long time no hear from), and everybody else, too.
And the same back at you, Tom!!!
Merry Christmas to all & welcome back to the board, Tom!
Eric
ditto, and please keep posting.
Merry Christmas everyone!
And Mary may have to change her location text, it was actually snowing in Houston last night and wee bit actually stuck to the ground.
A true Christmas miracle.
Huh ~ I may have to change my location!
No more snow! Ever!
I was wearing 3 shirts yesterday, I was so cold. 
Merry Christmas
Mary
âŚand Boy, is my computer slow this a.m.
Thanks, Tom! -Hope youâll play some festive music for all up there
on your holiday and have a warm time! -Still hoping to ascend to your end of the archipelago someday and hear you play in person-
Best to you,
Brian
Yes seasons greetings Tom and all you dear flute friends,itâs snowing here in Birmingham England and all the home fires are merrily burning smokeless briquettes. I am startling my parents with irish jigs & reels- Iâve kept my fluting a secret from them till now!
Anyone get a flute in their xmas stocking??
Anyone give an xmas gift to their flute??
Wishing you all a peaceful 2005 full of good tunes
Julia C
Hi Tom, It must be a piece of work to keep horses warm enough in Alaska. The backside of my barn is a concrete wall about 8 feet tall in the back of a mountain. Out of the wall, about weast high comes a water pipe with a spicket on it. I built a closet (a water closet of old) around it with one inch foam board all inside and on the wall around it. It is only a few feet from the âjail barsâ of my horseâs stall and inside the stall I have a water bucket with a heater in the bottom. It only gets below zero Faurenheit in West Virginia ocatioinally, but it if it got 20 below I would panic. With a 100 watt light bulb in the wc it still lingeres on 38 to 40 degrees in the wc. Hope your horses get through the winter. Hope you do not go ster crazy.
When it is 40 degrees outside or warmer and I am driving the household crazy, I can go to the barn and pipe.
Hope you make it OK and get lots of piping done.
If it werenât for time, you would have to do everything at once.
Nelson McAvoy
Do you guys and gals really have seasons? 
In Southern California it is either raining or sunnyâŚ
I am going on a two week retreat in 29 Palms desert, I will come back with a nice tan! 
Merry day after Christmas!
Jon
Yay, I sure remember those few years we spent in Southern California ~ I canât quite imagine a more perfect climate! Beach time every Sunday!
But Iâve grown quite accustomed to the heat and humidity in my part of the world ~
Tom, I just read in a magazine article that Ketchikan has an annual rainfall of 200 inches, on average. The person in the article (last name of Troll) joked that âitâs like living underwaterââŚHe is a local artist who draws fish., do you know of him?
Anyway, thatâs way more rain than I ever want to see in a year of my life! And I grew up in Seattle! 
And I never want to see the kind of cold or snow we used to get in Wyoming !
Mary
Hi Tom,
I hope that you are doing well. Here is what I recommend for those long, long Winterâs nights (and days). Go down to the general store and get one of those hot 500 watt sunlamps that they have on the after Christmas sale. You will need sunglasses and sunscreen, as well. Take it home and set it up in the kitchen. Brew some hot tea on the kitchen stove. Stick some pizza in the microwave oven. Now, get out your whistle and play one of the hot tunes from the Caribbean. I recommend the tune âAll Day and All Night With Maryannâ with steel drum accompaniment. How could it get any better? I envy you!
Best wishes,
Doug Tipple
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, and a safe, happy holiday season right back atâcha!
âJames & Shannon and the Fuzzies
Hereâs a fuzzy whoâs had her nose in Christmas Snow:
