I got off on a tangent thinking about Mouldy's swamp cabbage recipe and negelected to mention my favorite gift. My eldest son plays mandolin in our pub band, but also plays lead guitar in a heavy-metal. Way back in the summer of '97 they asked me to record the A part of the irish trad tune "Dunmore Lasses" with them. It was fun, but I never expected anything more than a demo tape to come of it. Well, the group self-produced it as a CD to sell at their gigs. He gave me a a copy of the CD as a surprise christmas present. I think I can now truthfully say I'm probably the only fat-old-fart that ever played hammered dulcimer in a heavy metal band, and has the CD to prove it. Never realized life could be such a hoot.