Sounds like a great tradition! I have a brother-in-law (with whom I went to the West Coast Pipe Show), and he and I will be doing much of the same.My brother-in-law and I will sit on his back porch with a glass of Scotch (could be bourbon, we like both, but I've got a bottle of Glenmorangie 18 and I expect we'll sample that) and welcome in the holiday season