Irrelevance re the logger who stirs his coffee with his thumb: I started a song circle in Austin a few years back, and this was a close friend's favorite song to perform. He and his wife do their own brewing...

And I found the most charming birthday card for him: on the front, a lumberjack with a tiny head, standing in snow, and saying something like "'Allo, mon ami!"

Inside, it said: "Just for your birthday: A cold imported logger with almost no head!"