So it got here...

Winter has frozen us...

So we got two or three inches the day before Christmas and close to three on Christmas night.  The cool thing about Chicago is we simply carry on.  By the time the sun came up the roads were clear.  Yet when Europe gets the same amount it is a national crisis and the MPs are looking to hoist someone from a (frozen) yard-arm. Get over it.  It is the Crisis de jour and will be gone "like snow on the water" soon.

Ok another thought.  Bob Segarini  has been posting some of the lost Wacker sessions from Montreal lately.  Ooooo baby this is good stuff.  Here is a little bit of humor from Studio "C" at "Les Studios" on Amherst Square in the winter of 1972... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yOp4c5M6wk .  Steve Wood and I were there and it still rocks.  Oh and there was their signature live tune "Rock and Roll Circus:  Bob has a totally delightful blog

Confusion of the season...

So here we are in November and darned near December... It was 61 degrees in Chicago this morning.

To quote Lombardi "What the hell is going on out there"??!! The geese are flying North or what?  Seriously the clouds have been fairly sprinting across the sky for two weeks now.  But like a skydiver that hasn't touched the ground yet, the polar jet stream seems reluctant to drop that last few feet to the ground and claim us in winter.  If you ask anyone...anyone on the street he answer is universal (we are not talking political), "It wont be long".  We wait for the hammer of winter to descend on us... any day...any day. 

You have to take these moments when the Midwest   tells you little white lies at a bit more than face value.  You must be aggressive with them; pushing them off with the stance of a straight arm to the corner-back.  Then sprint to the end zone and dive gleefully in...stealing another day from the jaws of winter... knowing full well you will pay for it in a late spring but that's ok.  Today we live.  With that in mind there were a few seats on the flight to Quebec city last weekend.  Go to Quebec??  Mais Oui!!

Last time I saw Quebec was in 1971.  It was more beautiful and vibrant than I remembered it.  The dominating Chateau with its command of the St Lawrence anchors a town that is modern but really hasn't changed a lot in a few hundred years.  The best Onion soup in the northern hemisphere and the Quebecois, easy and cracking jokes in at least two languages. These people have big hearts for anyone who comes with an open one.  They remind me of the English Canadians that way. The food was wonderful, the weather held.  Merci Canada.