Dear Family and Friends;
Season’s Greeting from our Family who have enjoyed continued progress on a bumpy road, in the year that has just passed.
Hubby’s gardening business struggles on, but you know him. He is fairly threatening so makes a strong Collection Officer as he goes about taking the last $20.00 from some Customers, for cutting their lawns. Although a bag of food for $20.00 doesn’t buy much these days, still, they owe him and it is pay up time. He left his sweat on their lawns and flowerbeds and darned if he is going to be stuck with ‘bad debt’.
Our one and only son (Wonder Boy) sometimes helps Hubby with the gardening when he has not been out partying the night before, but then he always insists they stop to eat at noon which pretty much cancels any profit made that day. Go figure. This eating regularly is seriously over rated and absolutely not cost-effective.
You remember Hubby’s health is not what it should be with his heart condition and diabetes. Thank goodness we live close to the hospital. He is always conscientious about not spending money on an ambulance.
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In blinding pain, he staggers over to Emergency, weaving his way through the traffic of cars and the blaring horns of buses that seem to think for some reason, that they have the right of way. What would make them think that? Maybe we should get him a STOP sign to carry and he could wear one of those hats with a revolving red light so the traffic can come to a halt accordingly.
The good news is that we finally got the Crack House next door closed down but we can’t take all the credit. It took the effort of all the neighbors on the street. We could not take the disoriented Crack Heads standing on our front doorsteps, knocking plaintively, all hours of the day and night. It was quite the circus to watch (and we all got in free). The good news was the whole neighborhood poured in to the street to watch the live entertainment (just like the TV series – Cops) when the fleet of police cars surrounded the area. We caught up on each others lives as we surveyed the constables, the undercover officers, possibly the RCMP and some one said CSIS, rounding up the undesirables. We hate to complain but it is quiet without them nowadays…..
Still, it sure is energizing to hear about the success of your family. Makes us proud to be (Fill in the blank)_________ (related) or ________ (acquainted). Gives us something to brag about when we talk to our friends and neighbors. We can not wait to get next year’s missive. We’ll be praying for your continued success because it is so nice to know there is someone out there that we are related to (or know) families who has their sugar….. together.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas…And A Happy New Year.
Love,
The Truth-Be-Darned and Don’t-Sweat-The-Little-Stuff
Note: A lot of changes have occurred since this letter was sent. Hubby is now RIP Daddy, gardening in heaven for spiritual bucks and Wonder Boy…well, he turned out just fine too.…….we are not the type to brag, but he works on Bay Street in the Financial District, ya know…where he finally pays for his own lunch.
