Wanted to wish everyone on CanoeTripping a Happy Holiday Greeting! I also want to thank everyone for making the site such a great place to be. Have safe journeys and a great day with friends and family!
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Christmas Eve Morning at the Pitt home. Happy Holidays from Michael & Kathleen.
Yes, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Nice picture PaddlingPitt, very cozy.
Just got home from work to find grandma watching the two young grandkids jumping in grandpa's giant leaf pile. Some days ya just gotta make your own fun.
Hope you all make plenty of your own fun this Christmas, and enjoy Peace long into the New Year.
Brad & Miranda
Hope you all make plenty of your own fun this Christmas, and enjoy Peace long into the New Year.
Brad & Miranda
Happy holidays!
Went for a quick overnight paddle here on Long Island, NY suburb. Took the canvas tent and hot stove. Very windy yesterday, about 1ft swells. Fun was had.
Robin, I used the OT Camper and it was packed to the gills! Perfect canoe, especially after dropping it while lifting it onto my car, hehe.
Went for a quick overnight paddle here on Long Island, NY suburb. Took the canvas tent and hot stove. Very windy yesterday, about 1ft swells. Fun was had.
Robin, I used the OT Camper and it was packed to the gills! Perfect canoe, especially after dropping it while lifting it onto my car, hehe.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night
Merry Christmas to all and all of the best (especially best paddling) in the New Year.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to All !
We've past the Winter Solstice, and days will again grow longer ! ( More daylight to build Canoes !)
That alone should bring Joy ! At least in the Northern Hemisphere !
Jim
We've past the Winter Solstice, and days will again grow longer ! ( More daylight to build Canoes !)
That alone should bring Joy ! At least in the Northern Hemisphere !
Jim
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Same to you Doug and thank you for all the time you've spent managing such an awesome website. I'm sure there's more to it than meets the eye and even a labor of love is still work at times.
Wishing you and everyone here the very best in 2019.
-Steve
Wishing you and everyone here the very best in 2019.
-Steve
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I'm gonna be busy for awhile. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you have a nice holiday
Merry Christmas to all the regulars and visitors who frequent this great site.
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A very merry Christmas to one and all. Everyone here is now deep in a new book, and I am deep in shop projects with new shop toys. OH BOY, G-5 epoxy for Christmas, just what I needed!
Christmas traditions at the McCrea house continue, some dating from our childhoods. We listen to the Chorus of Handel’s Messiah by candlelight, and afterwards debate what the scat-like word riffs are in the beginning (sure doesn’t sound like “For the lord god omnipotent reigneth” to me, but that’s a hard word jumble to carry in a tune). That silent listening tradition is a carryover from my wife’s childhood.
Christmas Eve Surf and turf dinner (not a carryover from her childhood, nor mine); lobster tail and Roseda Angus beef steak, salad, fancy potatoes, fresh baked bread. My older son is a wizard with a grill and, not that I eat much steak, those are always the best of the year. Or ever; Roseda is locally raised and locally famous Angus.
Everyone opens their Christmas Stockings before breakfast, and everyone has a Christmas Stocking. As a kid my Christmas stocking weighed 20 lbs, it was filled with nothing but ammunition. That tradition, which was most thrilling to a heavily armed woods tromping 12 year old, has not been carried over.
Guesses are made before opening each gift, which usually bears some clue to the contents on the card or wrapping. There is always some guess-what trickery in the boxing and wrapping. I got an SDHC card for my camera that I thought, judging on the size of the box, was a mini-fridge for the shop.
Books, high quality wool socks, puzzles and games, and homemade jams, jellies and other DIY’s handcrafted gifts are the norm. The house is now abundantly stocked with reading materials and homemade or locally sourced jams, honeys and cheeses, enough to last for a month+.
One traditional gift; every year my wife receives two photo calendars with monthly shots from past family trips, one for the kitchen, one for her home office.
Those photo calendars have clear Avery labels printed with the birthdays (and some death dates) of all of her ancestors, siblings, in-laws, nieces and nephews. Yay for a computer printed label file; it takes nearly 60 dates in total and we got tired of hand writing all those inscriptions. Plus none of us has great handwriting.
The most appreciated stocking stuffer I bought this year was electronic, a category I rarely purchase for any gift.
My wife works from home several days a week. We do not heat our house very much, but she runs a little ceramic heater under her desk. She has Raynauds Syndrome, and came down to the shop a couple weeks ago saying “My legs are warm, but feel my fingers, they are freezing from my computer mouse”. They were bloodless white ice sickles.
I Googled “Heated optical mouse”. Sure enough, such a thing exists. I clicked on the one with the best reviews and, lo and behold, the first 5 star rave was from the wife of a friend, she who likewise has Raynauds. Good enough testimonial for me, and the missus already loves the little thing.
Her sisters also have Raynauds (Quaker inbreeding?) and she has already spread word of heated optical mouse to her siblings.
So what did Santa bring you?
Christmas traditions at the McCrea house continue, some dating from our childhoods. We listen to the Chorus of Handel’s Messiah by candlelight, and afterwards debate what the scat-like word riffs are in the beginning (sure doesn’t sound like “For the lord god omnipotent reigneth” to me, but that’s a hard word jumble to carry in a tune). That silent listening tradition is a carryover from my wife’s childhood.
Christmas Eve Surf and turf dinner (not a carryover from her childhood, nor mine); lobster tail and Roseda Angus beef steak, salad, fancy potatoes, fresh baked bread. My older son is a wizard with a grill and, not that I eat much steak, those are always the best of the year. Or ever; Roseda is locally raised and locally famous Angus.
Everyone opens their Christmas Stockings before breakfast, and everyone has a Christmas Stocking. As a kid my Christmas stocking weighed 20 lbs, it was filled with nothing but ammunition. That tradition, which was most thrilling to a heavily armed woods tromping 12 year old, has not been carried over.
Guesses are made before opening each gift, which usually bears some clue to the contents on the card or wrapping. There is always some guess-what trickery in the boxing and wrapping. I got an SDHC card for my camera that I thought, judging on the size of the box, was a mini-fridge for the shop.
Books, high quality wool socks, puzzles and games, and homemade jams, jellies and other DIY’s handcrafted gifts are the norm. The house is now abundantly stocked with reading materials and homemade or locally sourced jams, honeys and cheeses, enough to last for a month+.
One traditional gift; every year my wife receives two photo calendars with monthly shots from past family trips, one for the kitchen, one for her home office.
Those photo calendars have clear Avery labels printed with the birthdays (and some death dates) of all of her ancestors, siblings, in-laws, nieces and nephews. Yay for a computer printed label file; it takes nearly 60 dates in total and we got tired of hand writing all those inscriptions. Plus none of us has great handwriting.
The most appreciated stocking stuffer I bought this year was electronic, a category I rarely purchase for any gift.
My wife works from home several days a week. We do not heat our house very much, but she runs a little ceramic heater under her desk. She has Raynauds Syndrome, and came down to the shop a couple weeks ago saying “My legs are warm, but feel my fingers, they are freezing from my computer mouse”. They were bloodless white ice sickles.
I Googled “Heated optical mouse”. Sure enough, such a thing exists. I clicked on the one with the best reviews and, lo and behold, the first 5 star rave was from the wife of a friend, she who likewise has Raynauds. Good enough testimonial for me, and the missus already loves the little thing.
Her sisters also have Raynauds (Quaker inbreeding?) and she has already spread word of heated optical mouse to her siblings.
So what did Santa bring you?
"What did Santa bring you?"
My wife and I exchange stockings only, and of course the good morning Merry Christmas kiss. Of course. Once again Santa brought me goodies of a goodly variety but what I am cherishing most in our warm kitchen this 25th afternoon is a party of kith and kin. Some from near, some from away; among those are a daughter and her family here from the west, and a son safely arrived from Antarctica with his own family visiting from the near north. But I shall never forget a good number of kith reside right here on this long distance short arm's length friendship that defines what Robin delivered and Doug continues. Thank you and a blessing to you and yours.
May you always be blessed with walls for the wind.
A roof for the rain.
A warm cup of tea by the fire.
Laughter to cheer you.
Those you love near you.
And all that your heart may desire.
My wife and I exchange stockings only, and of course the good morning Merry Christmas kiss. Of course. Once again Santa brought me goodies of a goodly variety but what I am cherishing most in our warm kitchen this 25th afternoon is a party of kith and kin. Some from near, some from away; among those are a daughter and her family here from the west, and a son safely arrived from Antarctica with his own family visiting from the near north. But I shall never forget a good number of kith reside right here on this long distance short arm's length friendship that defines what Robin delivered and Doug continues. Thank you and a blessing to you and yours.
May you always be blessed with walls for the wind.
A roof for the rain.
A warm cup of tea by the fire.
Laughter to cheer you.
Those you love near you.
And all that your heart may desire.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
Mike
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Merry Christmas!
Christmas day finds me alone at the cabin in Minnesota, cooking mule deer sausage on the wood stove, pickling pike, restoring a free 3 piece set of cast iron and getting my fishing gear ready to go out tomorrow. I have 3 days alone here before the rest of the family starts showing up. I might even get around to putting a finish on a couple of homemade paddles laying around here and filling my archery deer tag with more meat for the freezer. A blessed holiday indeed!
Christmas day finds me alone at the cabin in Minnesota, cooking mule deer sausage on the wood stove, pickling pike, restoring a free 3 piece set of cast iron and getting my fishing gear ready to go out tomorrow. I have 3 days alone here before the rest of the family starts showing up. I might even get around to putting a finish on a couple of homemade paddles laying around here and filling my archery deer tag with more meat for the freezer. A blessed holiday indeed!
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Brad, both sentiments strike home, with my boys gathered together and laughing close, and long distance tripper kin here, some yet unmet but still cherished.
Please attribute that quote, which seems to me universally applicable, and which I will printed to hang on my office door, alongside other favorites.
If that is original I want to attend the full sermon (except any kneeling, or the laying on of hands “Demons come out!” part; I am still enjoying some demons)
