Well it’s finally, and hopefully, officially here…Winter that is…At five twenty this morning I groggily opened my eyes and noticed it look a little bright outside….I ran to the window and through open the sash…(wrong story!) just kidding…I got up to look outside and saw snow falling heavily, covering the world in a blanket of pure white…I stayed up awhile gazing out the window with visions of…(sorry wrong story again)…with a certain sense of calm…as if the whole world had stopped… memories of winters long past flooded my mind…for a moment I was eight years old again and looking out the window of my bedroom in the house I grew up in, anxious to get dressed and go out and play…Ah! But that was so long ago…For now I’ll look forward to long walks in the wintry woods…some downhill and cross-country skiing…skating outdoors…and cold nights keeping warm by the fire…there are many who dislike this weather and would have it be summer all year long…too bad, so sad…..I’ve already been out shoveling and am going out for a walk in the snow…for me this is my favorite time of the year…it’s going to snow for the next two days…it could snow for forty days and nights and I would love it….Oh Yeah! And Christmas is coming too!!!

                                              Hope you’re all having a great day

                                              Merry… (Wait! It’s a little early for that yet)

                                                                              Charlie Major

                   Well I’ve been home for a month now and I think I’m finally caught up with all the chores that piled up while I was away…I could list them all but safe to say there’s a lot that needs be done when making the transition from summer to winter as you all know…and winter’s right around the corner…flurries will be flying soon covering the world in a wondrous blanket of white snow…one of my most favorite times of the year…get to do some skiing if the winter allows for good conditions….Like a lot of you out there across the country we’re back into hockey season here at our house….early mornings, late evenings in arenas drinking Tim Horton’s and literally chillin’…My oldest is in Major Bantam this season…he’s got a band that’s played a couple of shows already and he displays all the abilities of being a good songwriter….Maybe he’ll be writing my hits soon!!...My younger one has decided to forego hockey to pursue his acting career this year and has already scored the lead for the High School Christmas play…now if I can just keep them in school!

                  To catch up a little bit on what’s going on in my world I’ve been busy writing songs for a new CD that will be out in the Spring of 2K8…Gonna be somewhat different than the last one in content but none the less something I’m hoping you all will take to.

                    To all of you who came out to the shows on my Western tour I want to thank you for your continued support it means the world to me…especially all of you that stand in line for an autograph or a short chat at the end of the show…I love the connection…

                    So now Halloween has come and gone and it’s time to start Christmas shopping!!..did I just say that?....it’s true though…it seems to be coming faster every year…just like birthdays….it’s cliché I know but man it seems to have all gone by so fast this far…but there’s still lots to come…and am looking forward to the future whatever it may bring…

                Find someone to snuggle up to and keep warm this winter.

                Some one you can’t live without rather than some one you can live with.

                                                                  Love and thanks to all,

                                                                                                   Charlie Major

Well I woke up this morning             

For the seventh day in a row            

In a place that’s familiar

And surroundings that I know.

It wasn’t some hotel room 

Or some bus out on the road

Where even among smiling faces

One can feel so alone.

Oh! There’s nothing more that can make you miss a place

Than all the time that you spent gone

If home is where the heart is

Then this is where I belong

I went out walking and looked out

On the valley down below

Stopped by the shore awhile

Just to watch the river flow

Standing ‘neath the autumn sky

My chest ready to explode

I was filled with a certainty

That I’ve always known.

That there’s nothing more that can make you miss a place

Than all the time that you spent gone

If home is where the heart is

Then this is where I belong

Now I’ve traveled all my life

Across this great land

From the streets of Victoria

To the shores of Newfoundland

I know that I’ve been blessed

With all the wonders I’ve been shown

But at the end of the day

This is where I feel I’m home.

Oh! There’s nothing more that can make you miss a place

Than all the time that you spent gone

If home is where the heart is

Then this is where I belong.

If home is where the heart is

Then this is where I belong….

                  Well it seems like it’s been a few days since I last updated everyone on our goings on……..This evening I watched the sun going down over Lake Kenosee just north of Carlyle, Sk where I played tonight at The Bear Claw Casino to full house. The only unfortunate thing was they don’t want you to exceed your allotted time to play so they can get the people out on the floor and gambling. So it was a standard ninety minute set…..well ok! I actually played twenty minutes longer than I was supposed to……but I don’t think the management was impressed!......Since my last writing we’ve been to Prince Albert, SK (Northern Lights Casino) and got to hang out with Donnie Parenteau after the show ….then we moved on to Yorkton, SK (The Painted Hand Casino) where they had to turn hundreds away from the door so there were a lot of disappointed people out there……..got to see some old friends, Arnold Asham and his partner Lori who run a Festival in Manitoba every  year caled the Asham Stomp…….they made the journey the next day to Regina where we met up with the band and played at the Casino Regina on the 28^th and then the Mae Wilson Theatre in Moose jaw on the 29^th……It was a rocking good time……the band was smoking’ and we played for about two and a half hours each night….Have met a lot of nice people in our travels, got to have a coffee and some nice conversation with a couple of young ladies that came to the show in Regina….one of them I knew from having met her at the CCMA’s …….a very nice person…….we’ve seen some beautiful landscapes along the way……from the heights of the Rockies to the never ending flatlands of the prairies……I’m reminded of the Woodie Guthrie song “This Land Is Your Land” ……but for all the amazing and picturesque scenes we’ve come across I still miss my Ottawa Valley……if home is where the heart is then that’s where I belong…..today we’re of to a place called Cadillac, Sk  and working our way back West to Calgary…..six more sleeps and we’ll be home…..

                     So we left Fort Saint John around noon today and made our way to Edson,AB……..mostly an uneventful drive until we were instructed by our GPS to take Route 947……..a supposed shortcut…….how it didn't know that this was a logging road that wound its way through the backwoods of Alberta I don't know………I guess you'd have to ask the programmers that question………but in the end it was a wonderful mistake…….we drove for approximately 80km through countryside that most travelers would never see on the main roads……mind you there were some spots along the way where we thought that this was the end of the road and we'd have to turn back…..and we were joking about them finding us lost somewhere out in the wilderness in a wrecked rent a car….the road, if you could call it that, was near washed out at times and barely passable for one vehicle, but we kept on going and it was worth it…….passing through clear cuts and oil fields and views that are unavailable to the freeway traveler…..we came over one particular crest and were more than amazed at the panorama before us………we stopped so we could take it all in……before us was a valley laid out right to the end  of the earth….to the edge of the world….and I couldn't help but think ….what a wonderful world we have been given…..and yet…..we choose to ruin it through greed…….that leads to wars…….and leads to young people dying over things that if we had the common sense we could share and work things out together…..and this could be a world where we all enjoy the little time we get to spend here…..there is so much wrong in the world that seems so easy to resolve if you take away the greed factor……

When this old world began, it began in a garden…….in a garden filled with laughter

and the promise of hope and love ever after

If I could see the world through God's eyes,

I'd fill the heavens with tears I'd cry

It would break my heart and tear it apart to see all that's been done

In the name of the Father and the Son,

Oh! I'd cry, if I could see the world through God's eyes……

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