Celeste’s cousin Richard Joye comes from a family of tinkerers and engineers.  He and his two brothers are the kind of people that make me question my own IQ level (i.e. by comparison mine is dismally low), and just to prove it he’s built his own home-brew snow making operation.  It’s cool enough that the local news station did a story on him.  You can see it here (hopefully the link works).  If it ever gets up on Youtube or Google Video I’ll update this post with the video.

We get to see Ricky and his family every year at Thanksgiving in Charleston, SC and he and I end up hanging out and having a bunch of drinks while our ladies go shopping.  When the kids were little we’d have daddy-duty during our ladies’ shopping sprees so we’d take them to the beach and let them run rampant, go wading in the freezing water and stuff enough sand in their ears to make their heads weigh a pound more than normal.  Good times!

There was that one year when Icehouse first launched and we didn’t realize that it had a higher alcohol content that "normal" beer.  Nothing like puking in front of the in-laws, but that’s a story for another post.