I had a Sweetheart Christmas

Whistle
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I celebrated Christmas by ordering the Sweetheart whistle I have been wanting for about a year and a half. My husband and daughter each contributed enough money to the cause to pay for the whole thing. I felt really, really tacky asking for money for Christmas, but the whistle is what I wanted the most, and I knew it would take a least a couple of people to help pay for it. So now I can’t wait for it to arrive.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I spent my Christmas shoveling snow. Husband and I shoveled a total of about 20 inches off the driveway, not counting drifts. One drift was over 3 feet high. Needless to say our family celebration got cancelled until mid January. Hopefully, my new Sweetheart will be present for the festivities.

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All methods are acceptable when trying to get a new whistle. :laughing: We got the snow here in SD too, and it took me two days for us to get just the sidewalk shoveled out. Thank God we have an angel of a neighbor with a tractor who came and dug us out. And here a friend and I were talking at the beginning of the month about wanting a good old blizzard. Looks like we both got our Christmas wish!

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a few years back, the weatherman on a local radio station reported that an incoming storm would slide by us to the north leaving only about a 10% chance of snow, and even then it wouldn’t be much…

two days later, i called him at the station to report that i had just shovelled about two tons of “10%” out of my driveway…

be well, spring is coming.

jim

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I have a Sweetheart low D made of African Black Wood in my small collection of whistles. I’m just a novis, but, I decided to spend the money anyway, and I’m not sorry. I love it. I’m a pretty big guy, but still have problems with the piping fingering thing. I use the fingertip method with my left hand and the piping method on right. There are many beautiful sounding whistles out there, and each has it’s place, but, I’ve found that the mellow sound of wood warms my heart as well as my ears.