Maybe it’s just me, but when you listen to this album, you can tell it was snowing outside when we recorded it.
You can just feel that the roads were dodgy at best…
Anyway, I wrote “Gather ‘round the Christmas Tree” back in November of 2001.
Other than playing it in December every year, I had no idea what to do with it, so I set it aside.
Then, in December of 2004, while working as a Courier in Toronto, I wrote “Merry Xmas to My ExMiss”.
***see “A Courier’s Blues (Another Christmas Story of Sorts..)***
Six years would pass before I wrote another Christmas song.
It was written on a “Snow Day” in Nashville.
Snow had been forecast the night before and so school was canceled due to “Potential Inclement Weather”.
The next morning, there might have been an inch of snow on the ground.
Ruby was so excited that she put on her snowsuit and went in the front yard and rolled around.
I was more concerned about her getting grass stains on her snowsuit than anything else…
“Hey Ruby, try to catch a snowflake on yer tongue!!!”
“I will, Daddy! Mmmm yummy!!! Do they get this much snow in Canada, Daddy?”
“Yeah, they sure do, Ruby…”
She started singing “Oh the weather outside is frightful…”
I’ll never ever forget the look on her face…
Her red snowsuit swishing as she made snow angels.
I could live in that moment forever.
“One day this Christmas Day will be one from long ago,
and I’ll remember Ruby making angels in the snow…”
Mike Plume
December 23, 2019.