Dad sent me a rainbow trout mount, in the colors of the Kulik River Alaska trout we fly-fished together several years ago; amazingly realistic and very, very cool. Wife gave me a bottle of Lagavulin (best Scotch on the planet, quite possibly the universe), and I bought us a new roof; they put it on yesterday.

Christmas Day 2007

Great thing about being a piper's wife; your husband can express his undying love and affection for a sixteen-year-old and you're not unduly alarmed, and when he talks of the old bag, you know he's not referring to you.