[Gpdd] Silly, Condolences, Misc: Secret Santa Exchange

[Algernon07 at aol.com]

Dear Sailor Willie,
     Happy Happy wheeeekings from your buddy Charlie. Your package arrived 
very quickly after your email telling me it was on the way. I am soooo esscited. 
But wheeeking wizards and lizards, our momma is making us wait to open our 
gifts. I don't think it's fair! The package is calling out "open me, 
Charlie...open me." I know it is. 
     I wants to thank you very very much. You knows how I luvz presentz. And 
as I said in my earlier email to you, it's way cool having you as my Santa 
Pig.
     All of us have our gifts now except for Wilson. Mr. Cooders has his 
(from his gentle ad beloved lady-friend Porky) and he is all agog and silly acting 
but trying to act dignified. Wheez luvz him but wheeze teazes him, too.
     Chester has his gift, too, and we don't thinks we should have to wait to 
open them. Ah...but....
     Wheeze hope our presents have arrived to our Santa Piggies-- we mailed 
them last week and its a good thing that we did. The bad weather has stayed bad 
down here in our little valley although we hear is melting "out there." But 
you can't tell that here. Tow trucks won't even come down here. Usually people 
get stuck on the front hill, but now peoples can't get out of our valley, let 
alone get to any regalar roads. But the power has stayed on. That is very 
important to us. So is getting someone to manage to get out of here and actually 
make it to the post office. wheeek wheeeek wheeeek, laughing.
     Even with the heat working, our little paws and feet are getting cold. I 
didn't know that felt bad being cold until Alge made "poor piggy" comments to 
us about our cold little footsies. She holds our feet and paws and makes luvy 
sounds to us and the pads on our feet get warm. They feel so good then. She 
promises us a warm oil massage (like Wild Wooly Willie from the Northwest used 
to like so much) soon.
     She thinks we need sockses and slippers and even piggy gloves but she 
said we might eat them if she could actually find any! 
     So we just curl up in our cuddle cups.

     Sailor Willie, lots of good piggies have crossed the Rainbow Bridge 
lately. It makes this Christmas (or Crittermas time as Harly G. Pig would say) a 
sad time, too. All of us Jolly Rodents send sympathy and condolences to those 
who will be missing their piggies on Christmas. Alge has cried as she's read us 
the news and we have wiped our teary eyes with our paws.   The stories are of 
such wonderful peoples and such wonderful piggies. On Christmas Eve we will 
burn a special candle in honor of those piggies and their peoples. Our hearts 
go out to those people and piggies who are grieving or ailing.

     Gee, I think this is the longest letter I've ever written. But Christmas 
is so exciting and I feel so bad seeing so many people sad. Wilson tells me 
that the other side of the Bridge is wonderful though. He actually visited 
there when they were at Cape Alava for the laying of the last golden poo. He was 
"the messenger." Chester and I weren't born yet then but we've heard a lot 
about it.

     Sailor Willie and all you other piggies and people -- have a wonderful 
holiday no matter which one you celebrate. We get to do both Christmas and 
wheez have some Hanukkah traditions, too. We play driedels with raisins for gilt. 
Yummy yummy. And we have a special kind of potato pancake, laches I think it's 
spelled. And we can have apple sauce with them but alge likes sour cream.

Happpy Crittermas!
Charlie of the Jolly Rodents