I've been checking in ever so often and by the looks of things around here I'm not sure if anyone will see this . Even so: I hope everyone has a safe, wonderous and prosperous holiday season.

It's not often that people come together in such a way as those of you I have come to know via this and other forums. You are special to me and I pray you all will be blessed in everything that comes your way.

May you all receive the joy and spirit of a truely great and marvelous Christmas and New Year.

Love to all ,

and may God bless.

Viper...............< :

Thank you, Viper.  My prayer is that you and your lovely bride have a safe and happy holliday season and that next year brings you even more of the blessings you have enjoyed.  It looks as if it is going to be a good year for a number of people, including us.  Luna will have a baby.  How great is that?!?  My step daughter is moving out, getting married to a really fine guy.  Pidder and I will move to another house (she can't tolerate this place after her dad passed away here).  The business I'm managing is doing very well and its future looks great.  I'm still healthy.  I could use more vigor but don't yet need viagra.  lol. My son finally broke away from his idiot employer and launched his own service business.  Anybody need anything done?  He offers a wide range of honey do services from erecting a fence, installing appliances, hanging dry wall, repairing damage to homes, cutting grass, assembling anything, etc.  The boy takes after his dad and his dad's dad and can do most anything he sets his hands to.  Takes great pride in his work too, which is why Lowe's cancelled their contract with his ex-boss and awarded it to my boy.  Pidder's brother, that we thought would never be physically able to work again, has a job and is doing well at it.  All my six grandchildren are healthy and well-spoiled, just like I like 'em.  The one living with us is showing signs of super-intelligence (not that I'm prejudiced, you know).  Not yet four years old, I can sit her in front of my computer, access Barney's website and she'll surf for up to 3 hours without accidentally clicking off the site.  She solves puzzles, paints pictures on the click and paint games, and goes to dozens of pages and amazes us all.  My brother's daughter was accepted in a special school for the gifted because of her scolastic achievments. My old favorite truck with 450,000 miles on it is still zipping along.  I seldom have to work on weekends (I count that a blessing after years of retail).  My sister has regained her voice and the treatments are working.  Frolix is still sending me crazy funny stuff via e-mail.  My neice in Australia (Irish) is doing very well at the University, even if she can't decide what to major in, and her family life is very good.  Friends are keeping me supplied in vinison (I seldom hunt).  I just have so many things to be thankfull for.  It is a good place to be.

LUNA!  So good of you to leave the message.  Pidder and I saw you on TV, giving your husband the pie in the face treatment.  You are as pretty as I imagined.  Congrats again on the pregnancy.  We do look forward to the birth. 

Let's see now.  The baby will need a handle to use on the forum.  Didn't you say it is a girl?  How about Lunette?  Or Moon Pie?  When you change its diaper, you can call it moon mud, or astrogifts.  One thing about it;  It took years of education and work for you and your spouse to become producers.  The baby will begin “producing“ on her first day out.  Tee hee.

But wait.  Maybe it's just us redneck trailer trash types that give all our kids nicknames.  I have first cousins who, in their fifties, are still called Dankum and Skutter.  Nice guys, but can you imagne them for example running for a public office with names like that?  “Vote for Dackum and you will thank 'um.”  Or, “Vote for my brudder, Skutter.”

I watched (and taped) the movie about Rocky and Bullwinkle last night.  That made my Christmas complete.  I grew up loving that cartoon show.  Now you know where I get my corniness (Corniness: adverb. the state of being when one's humor has as much intellectual appeal as an ear of corn.).  But then I also grew up a fan of Pogo, which is most intellectual/cerebrial once you study it.  Maybe that balanced me.  I can relate to Bullwinkle because he and I are a lot alike, as is Cramer on Steinfeld.  Pogo, for those younger readers who never knew him, was a 'Possum that lived with his swamp friends near a bayou near New Orleans and had a heavy Cajun accent.  He came up with some real quotable gems and a book was published not very many years ago that reprinted the best of Pogo.  My favorite quote came when Pogo and his allegator buddy had just royally messed up a scheme due to their ineptness and Pogo said, “We has met the enemy and he be we.“  Over the years, when I have a plan backfire and I discover the reason was because of a missing but important piece of information, I quote Pogo.  People look at me kind of funny.