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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Is it just me, or was All Hallows Eve last week
and Thanksgiving yesterday?
This year was full of activity and there were
so many you just get the ones I can remember in the time it takes to
read this note or fill a page whichever comes first.
Perhaps most the most important event of the
year, we went to Cursillo this summer and became aware of an
entirely new set of brothers and sisters in Christ. It increased
our attention to items religious, and we would be happy to tell you
about it.
A family trip to St. Martin, the first week of
August; we find the children enjoy themselves more when they bring a
friend along and it worked again this year. A week on a private
beach with nothing to do but enjoy. We highly recommend it.
Bryce continues to support the security team
that protects the Department of Energy in Germantown MD. Reese is,
we believe, within days of becoming a member of the Humana
Information Technology Staff here in Tampa. Both generally healthy
and happy, Bryce is still mending from a shoulder injury over the
summer, and tells us he is using the Wii to recover his strength.
Speaking of Wii, we now enjoy a variety of new
games including tight rope walking, and hula hoop and Yoga to add to
the bowling and fitness tests.
Pat added yet another hospital to her area of
responsibility in addition to handling communications for Holy
Innocents’ and the first Annual Whistle Stop Craft Show and Bake
sale. It went great and everybody said the coordinator made it
happen. A new website hiepiscopal.org was established too.
We upgraded Pat’s bike from the Wal-Mart
special and biked over 200 miles this year, sometimes as much as 40
in a day. Some on vacation, some on a trail an hour or so away, and
many trips to dinner or Starbucks and shopping, I keep thinking the
amount of exercise Pat does over what she needs must count toward my
score sheet but my pants (without elastic) keep getting tighter.
Computing is a good business, ask Reese.
Mostly I’ve been able to keep my customers happy this year, and
think 10 is a good number until the economy turns or Vista gets
popular whichever comes first, then I’ll look into adding help.
We have had three years without a major storm,
Aunt Betty (who we will miss very much) often spoke about 20+ years
with little more than some strong wind and after the one year,
nothing since.
When you are ready to travel south, we are
ready to see you. Ya’ll come.
Pat & Mike and Maxine.
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