On New Year's Eve, I had about 15 people in and we made music up to and past midnight- great way to spend the time. Even taped the whole evening to give out as gifts.

New Year's Day dawned silvery and clear. I went with a dear friend 'out the road' to the Shrine of St. Therese and stood in the crystal cold for an hour as we watched numerous humpback whales and literally TONS of sea lions below and beyond us.

Did you know that whales also 'sing' above water? I had never heard such a sound except on underwater recordings but it was unmistakeably the whales who moaned and keened the haunting tones.

Something to paste in my 'Memory Keeper' book.

Ebbie