Monday, December 21, 2020

Christmas Letter From Mississippi


Another year has come on gone, and what a year is has been, certainly not without challenges but still we are blessed. 

As I told you last year at this time I had to have both hips replaced. So in January I got through that. My goodness that wasn’t easy but I managed with Jim and the Lord’s help to pull through. 

Jim had knee replacement surgery in April before the COVID hit down here. He was up and around in no time. He’s such a stud. 

That was until he went to the dentist, seems he has a bad tooth that needed some work, he’s so cheap he told the dentist he didn’t need Novocain because he was on a budget, says he’ll not make that mistake again. 

Pat and Tim are doing great, rain made the planting days drag on for a month but he managed to do ok. Used some of the extra money to buy the Anderson property they’d been wanting for about ten years. He’ll have it in the crop rotation by next fall. 

Winter rye is in doing well thanks in part to God’s Grace and Mother Nature plus some late fall hurricanes in case y'all missed the news. 

Grand-daughter Kaylee has a job at the Ole Miss Chick Fil A on Campus. Now this is a problem because she really likes working at Chick-Fil-A, says it is more fun that going to classes for her nursing degree. I wished she’d gone to State instead. 

Junior has a way with cars and trucks, he’s always finding some old broken truck and fixing it up selling it and making a pretty good profit on it. He found a 1974 Ford F-100 bought it for $500 and sold it for $5,000 says he put about $2,500 in it and about 30 hours of work. 

Nana hasn’t driven in years, given she’s blind in her left eye. But Junior though it would be ok if she had a safe car to drive to Sunday meetings and such, so he found a nice Toyota, low mileage and bright yellow in color so you can see her coming.

Now the DMV was a little hesitant but Pat knows some folks and with the promise of daytime driving only they passed her. So she now has a state of Mississippi driver’s license. If you see her coming you might best pull over, Lord help us all. 

Katherine took a job at Walmart in Grenada they must like her cause they said she could go fulltime after the holidays if she likes. This is all great news, her first real job outside of homemaker, after all she’s 35 and the kids are all grown. 

Justin works for the State of Mississippi and Katy is working at a pre-school. 

Bill and Arleen are doing well, Bill junior is at boot camp in South Carolina Fort Jackson I believe. He’ll graduate soon, smart boy, good looking and more girlfriends and he can name.

The COVID virus tossed a wet blanket on our fall family reunion. Folks from Memphis didn’t feel safe in traveling, so family from Jasper and Atlanta came. 

No one got sick, we all stayed outside and had a great time. All in all we had about half of the number from last year. 

Hard to believe it has been a year since Bert’s passing. We are still cleaning out the house. We miss his jokes, well most of them. 

All said, things are good here in Gore Springs. 

We wish you and yours the best for the coming year. With God’s Grace and never ending Love we will carry on. 

Christmas blessings to you and May Christ’s light bring you joy throughout the year. 

Love Y'all 

Roxy

Cedar's Note: It doesn't get more real than family Christmas Letters. The names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty. 

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

speaking of Mississippi, what is going on with the pledge fund?

Anonymous said...

The Pledge Fund is dead. Anyone who was dump enough to contribute to that Ponzi scheme got just what they deserved nothing! Funny as hell the number of dumbasses who fell for it and think that Foster and Selvey and other all go checks. Guess glad I never signed up.

Anonymous said...

I really thought Cedar was just joking but Gore Springs is real and they do in fact have a Chick-Fil-A at Ole Miss. Just can't imagine being 35 with grown kids. Cedar is Roxy a real person or is this just made up fun?

Anonymous said...

I've actually been to Gore Springs Miss. Big hunt club area took both deer and turkey over the years. I think the place is called the Dry Dock good food great people cold beer what more do you need.

Anonymous said...

Nice Christmas letter!

Anonymous said...

You know Foster and Selvey got theirs.

Anonymous said...

What about slob-like Sgt. McGarity wearing shorts, t-shirt, and flip-flops to work in B1 while on light duty? If I remember the directives correctly causal business attire should be worn to include a shirt with a collar.I guess when you are an unprofessional slob and don't care about anything, you can pretty much do what you want?

Anonymous said...

Foster and Selvey were great leaders!

Anonymous said...

What they actually led, I don't know?

Anonymous said...

Is she still running the fraud real estate business?

Anonymous said...

Fraud? Pledge fund!

Anonymous said...

Where are the PROTESTS over the Concord Police Officer's death?

Anonymous said...

Question: Is Vicki Foster married? I wouldn’t mind breaking her off a little something

Anonymous said...

Anyone wonder why the department is a mess? Just look here at all the children that derail every post. Bunch of fucking idiots! Get a life you losers! Go create your own “bash the department” blog. How can someone be so obsessed over a fund and others getting “on duty booty”?

Anonymous said...

I want to know about the Doziers! What is their latest drama over how better they are than everyone else?

Anonymous said...

Ten Principles To Live By - From the book "Cowboy Ethics"
Ten Principles are timeless, universal cowboy values that are still relevant to our lives today.
1 Live each day with courage.
2 Take pride in your work.
3 Always finish what you start.
4 Do what has to be done.
5 Be tough, but fair.
6 Make a promise, keep it.
7 Ride for the brand.
8 Talk less and say more.
9 Some things aren't for sale.
10 Know where to draw the line.

Anonymous said...

We ARE going to need a bigger boat!

Anonymous said...

Down we go!

Anonymous said...

Once you reach the bottom the only place to go is up!

Anonymous said...

I think most of the Command Staff is use to "bottoms!"

Anonymous said...

Guns, guns, guns,. Lets do this!!!

Anonymous said...

Funny how the newbies are all from departments up north.

Anonymous said...

Does this cmpd officer still have a job after this ?

https://youtu.be/N0oYVFHHse0

Guys u have to stop letting people bait u!!!

Anonymous said...

How many "homey"-cides are we up to now?

Anonymous said...

7:07...Thank You! 51' something code number in action! That idiot ain't worth one of our guys getting into trouble over something stupid!

Anonymous said...

10:46 As long as that idiot ain't interfering he can film all he wants!

Anonymous said...

7:07. Come on man. You know better. IA talk to you yet?

Anonymous said...

Speaking of Braxton Winston, he needs to change his first name because "Braxton" is the name of Confederate General Braxton Bragg.