Field Recordings

Thrift Store X-mas Deux For the second year in a row Michele and I are celebrating Thrift Store X-mas. Which means the following: we spend $50 +/- bucks on each other via a secondary/used/on-line used store, etc. A freeing experience. There's no expectations. Pressure? Sure. Especially if you devote any cranial mass to picking out gifts, but it's fun, addictive, and just common sense. Last year I got a pickling jar, a wooden log carrier, books, tapes (for my truck, whose sound system is so 1993), small gifts my wife selected because we shared a joke about them once, or because it was, well, unexpected. Like a English hound iron door stop, painted with realistic, yet semi ironic colors. For the kids, well it's a mixed bag....The dollars we save goes towards their gifts. And we're not super present givers anyway. One big gift from us, wrapped-- a happiness bomb under the tree, the others laid out by Santa. We set a precedent for Santa to not leave so much. This year a few...