Congrats to Annie on her new car. Looks really cool. And for not making me co-sign, guess I'll nowhave to get her some of the stuff on her Christmas list.

As for Walker? Don't know. He's at Camp Keep with Mike. Use your imagination.
MIKE will have to post his own when he gets bac.

Greg handed me this list:

He'd like videos (DVDs) from Dragon Ball Z at the Zstore.com:
"Opening ceremony"
"Final Round"
"Gohan's Secret"
"Declaration"
"Crash Course"

or the video game "STARCRAFT: GHOST" for the PS2 (not avail apparently til Dec 31).

OR a LEXAR (or some other brand) JUMPDRIVE portable USB drive.

or "METROID PRIME" a game for the game-cube
or "STAR WARS" X-WING and/or JEDI STARFIGHTER LEGO sets.
or books, clothes, music (unspecified).

AS FOR MOM:

I'm hoping to have you girls go shopping with her when we get there. She really needs all new clothes. Shirts, blouses, pants, DRESSES. She has nothing to wear to Church, so she ends up not going. She needs new garments. A ROBE, slippers, a COAT. (While it wouldn't be much of a surprise we should all just go out and buy new coats. Look around and see what you can see).
Mom needs her hair done and the SPA treatment somewhere. She needs to feel good about herself again. But she's hesitant to do any of that here.

AS FOR DAD:

Santa came early for him already with a new TV, carpet, furniture, roof, etc. I could use some dark socks, a new tie or two, or a robe.
I'm pretty much good to go right now.

I realize funds are a little tight for everyone right now. We'll try to help out as much as we can.
Try not to go too much in debt.

Oh, by the way, Aunt Janie sent me some pages for us to write down our thoughts and feelings about Grandpa Young for a new Christmas/80th BIRTHDAY book she's compiling. She wants us to write or type something (which could be pasted onto the special book pages) Also some photos of our family. We've got the Logan pix that we took last year.

MAYBE WE SHOULD ALL THINK ABOUT A NEW FAMILY PIX BEFORE WE SPLIT APART AGAIN.

We have the Bakersfield Christmas parade tonight. It's supposed to rain. Jim and Robin will be hunkered down in their little blanket on their easy-chairs narrating the 2-hour parade. So they're making me anchor the newscast while they get set up, then their making me run outside and jump on a haywagon to ride in the stupid thing again. I'm so looking forward to that.

Also Monday, the BC orchestra does it's annual Christmas show at the Fox theater. For years they've roped us into coming over to play silly instruments for the 12 days of Christmas finale. That's happening again this year, but they've roped me into putting on a red suit and playing Saint Nick just before that. Boy now, I've really got to lose weight or I'll be type-cast forever.

Happy Trails all.
Love Dad.