What a night we had last night! I put up a big crowd from Kent County as they were all here in Moncton to do their Christmas shopping at Canadian Tire.

Daisy-June is looking radiant… with twins!! Dale was strutting around like an old birch partridge. Everything is going well with them, except that there hasn't been enough snow to bury a suirrel. Not even one mason jar got used yet but you can bet the pot will be on full boil by dawn. Most of the lads will going to Midnight Moose tonight. Won't be a warden for miles. Plus, it's suppose to snow tonight, so they won't even have to brush their tracks. Canadian Tire is all out of Dirty Thirty Ammo and D-cell batteries.

Del served one third of his six months and has house arrest for the next two months. Then he's back on parole. He can only go out to the Community College where he is studying auto mechanics as part of his rehabilitation. He is specializing in electrical systems. In his spare time, he is working in his garage, where he mostly customizes jeeps and trucks with jacked-up suspensions and high powered lights and such. There's a big demand for that kind of work around here. He and Cpl. Daylia are still seeing each other, when they can, but she's gotta keep it hush-hush until his latest debt to society is repaid. I guess the RCMP frown on consorting of that sort.

Dale's brother Johnny is still in a full body cast. The insurance company has been ordered to pay for his old truck that burned, his new truck that was rolled after being stolen, his medical bills and his lost "wages". EI cancelled his claim because he is not available for work. Of course, the judge allowed the insurance company to reserve the right to sue Johnny, who they accuse of rolling the new truck while under the influence of alcohol and filing a false theft report. Can you believe that? I mean, if he had done it, imagine how drunk he'd have to be to have four crushed vertebra and a cracked pelvis and wait until the next morning to report a stolen vehicle.

Okay. I gotta git. Can't wait to hear from you, Shane, Don. The lads have been asking after youse.

Merry Ho Ho.