Christmas Letter 2008

I awoke with a start this morning, rolled out of bed at 0400 and started on the our Christmas Letter 2008.  By 0700 the first draft of words was complete.  The new feature of our letter will be that Jessica is no longer featured.  She has flown the nest and I believe she is writing her own letters.  We did not receive one last year but family said they received one.  Such an ungrateful child.  I will not reveal what the letter said but I believe it was sufficient.  No SAM has to review and it will be good to go via email.  We print very few these days.

The remainder of the day was spent stripping the varnish off the boom gallows for our sailboat, getting the mail and other domestic chores SAM no longer has the time to complete, completing some website content activities and eating lunch and dinner.  Gas was $1.559 at Walmart this evening:  I filled up the Honda and purchased some more kerosene for the space heater in the garage.  The kerosene is more than twice as expensive as the gasoline.