Merry Christmas Everybody!!

Mele Kalikimaka

Hope everyone had a joyous Christmas. Pretty quite here in Oklahoma City area since we are all snowed in. Santa presented us with 14.1 inches of snow on Christmas Eve. (I hope he got coal in his Christmas stocking.)

We cancelled Christmas Eve with wife's family and Christmas day activities with all my family coming to our house. But not to despair. Joanne's clan will be here tonight and all the Stone's will be here New Year's Day to have a belated Christmas celebration.

We are just thankful we had a warm place to stay, plenty to eat and were safe. Now that the jolly ole fatman has come and gone, the wrapping paper has gone out in the trash or the fire place and things settle down we all still need to remember the reason for the season.

Hope you all had a very merry CHRISTmas and am wishing all my shipmates and comrads in arms a very happy and prosperous new year.

Rick and Joanne Stone and Buddy Joe, the best Schanuzer a man could ask for

Back at ya and Happy New Years too!