Happy New Year
Episode 10
The Christmas Season
I was hoping to ride out December on a sleigh but it was harder than I thought. First of all I wasted some time looking for reindeer, which are really hard to find by the way, then I realized it wasn't Santa's sleigh, it was just an open sleigh. I only needed one horse. We started out ok but it wasn't long before we threw a shoe. Farriers are another thing hard to find so I just grabbed another horse. This one was really distracted by the trappings of Christmas, it got caught up in the lights and then wanted a sleigh with the easy glide skis, I had to let it go. I put blinders on the third horse, that should keep his mind focused on the task. We were doing ok until we hit a patch of dry ground. I got out to walk along side the horse to make it easy but it made me feel lonely, the horse just ignored me, I can't really blame him, he didn't notice me, he had blinders on. We made a few stops along the way, the 23rd was a particularly good day. I even had a few people join me in the sleigh that evening. I abandoned the sleigh on the 24th to spend with my grandkids, and my daughter Heather kept me company until the 27th. Back on the sleigh I started making plans for the New year, I'm hoping it to be better than 18. I'll leave the sleigh in the snow and go on by foot...
Loved
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🎠"Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh, hey!"🎠
🙆Thanks, Ed! You have put a song in my heart❤ and rhythm in my feet this morning👣. Riding🚗, sliding🏂 and walking🚶, you've got Year 2019 off to a running start in blogland🏃.
Happy trails to you🚀 and Happy New Year, too🔮.
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🎂🎭HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRISTINE!
🙋Good morning from us in Peachland🍑 where we are already celebrating your New Year's Day birthday🎂. We hope you are feeling fully alive at sixty-five💚.
On this first day of Year 2019📅, we are eager to join Ron👨, other family members💞 and your friends💙 in wishing you a very good time on your birthday🎈. Of course, January One is a significant day for each of us🚶 but for you, it is a doubly special occasion👸.
May you get to celebrate past years of personal success👣 and enjoy the promise of exciting new beginnings🔮. We'll drink to that!🍷🍷
💌Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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Thank you Louise and Dave,
And Happy New Year to everyone!
Love,
Christine and Ron
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👸🔔HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAROL!
👴👵We have already greeted you over on Facebook where Sonia has posted one of her celebration collages in honour of you📷. The pictures she has chosen are filled with beauty💐, joy🙌 and family love💑. You're sure looking fine at 69👑.
We cannot help but think that Regina will be rockin' today💃 as your children and their spouses💏, your grandchildren and great-grandchildren👨👧👦👶 reach out to greet you in various ways. May you be surrounded by their good wishes💞 expressed in calls, texts, cards, visits, treats, hugs and kisses💋. They know how lucky they are💑.
Talk about an abundant life💓! As you start Year 2019🎂, may you enjoy being at the center of a remarkable picture of family fun🎡 and loving commitments🎭. We're looking forwarded to toasting life with you and Tony here in Peachland in two weeks' time🚗. Cheers!🍷🍷
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎈🎁HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HOLLY!🎁🎈
🙌We have already greeted you over on Facebook where good wishes are being posted by friends and family.📜 A Saturday birthday can easily turn into a weekend and fun, fun, fun💃💕. We hope that happens for you on this first weekend in January 2019📅.
🏡We imagine it will be party time in the Gustafson home on your 44th birthday🎂. We're eager to join Jamie, Eddie, Mia, Lui, Ellie and Beata💞 in wishing you the kind of birthday celebration🎆 that you might design for yourself🎨. May it bring you much joy today🚀 and make you a promise of many more such celebrations to come🔮.
We'll drink to that🍷🍷. Cheers from us in Peachland!🍑
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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💏HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, HOLLY AND KEENAN!💏
Congratulations!🍸 Facebook postings suggest that all is fine for you at NINE🔔. You are loving the memories of your wedding day in Mexico⛵ nine years ago today📅; and you're looking forward to more wonderful times together💑.
💞Today we join all your family, especially your daughters, Gwenyth👧 and Toni👶, in a celebration of you as a happy couple💑 and fun-loving parents🎈. Your girls are beautiful, and Gwenyth never stops smiling😏.
Nine is about as perfect a number as is possible in a ever-changing world🌏. We think the same could be said about your marriage of nine years💒. Here's to many more years of happiness together.🎊 Cheers!🍷🍷
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎁🍷HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARK!🍷🎁
Greetings from us in Peachland🍑 where we are looking out at a sweeping view of Okanagan Lake🌊 and the layers of mountains that fade far into the distance🌄. This weekday morning has a 'celebration feel'🎆 about it, and our thoughts turn to you on this terrific Tuesday🎂.
👴👵We are quite happy to join others in wishing you a happy birthday, Mark🎈. You are not likely to blow out your candles🔥, cut the cake🍰 and celebrate in style🍷 until the day is drawing to a close. Still, we hope you get lots of well-wishes💌 from start to finish on this special day🎂.
Sonia has already provided family and friends with a fantastic forum for greeting you on Facebook📃. What great pictures, too📷! So from us🍑...here's to many happy returns of this January 8th occasion in your life.📅 Cheers!🍷🍷
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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💑💍HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, KELLY AND DUSTIN!💍💑
🔔Your anniversary day is already stretching into the mid-afternoon🌇 and we are only now posting greetings to you.📃 We had to run a few errands this morning🚗 and didn't return to our Peachland condo until a few minutes ago🕓. You've been in our thoughts, though, and it's time to tell you so here on Ed's Edition💻.
💒Congratulations on the anniversary of your wedding day in Mexico a dozen years ago today.🎪 We've seen the awesome pictures of that fun time on the beach🌊 with close family and good friends💞. We join all of them now, along with your son, Thomas👦 and daughter Candice👧 in wishing you good memories💕, happy times💃 and future joys🔮.
We'll also drink to that!🍷🍷
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎿🎁BELATED BIRTHDAY WISHES, GERON!🏂🎈
🙍Today we have to begin our greetings with an apology. 📅Yesterday we got so caught up in 'the stuff of life'🎭 that we forgot to post a greeting on your twentieth birthday🎂. We did know that you were celebrating, though,🎉 and even asked ourselves how all those years had gone by so quickly⏳.
🙌Congratulations on marking this latest milestone on the road of life🚶, Geron. We join your family and friends💞 in celebrating your first two decades of learning📗, living💃 and lasting🏆.
We hope the journey forward👣 holds lots more health🍎, happiness💕 and prosperity💰 for you. Enjoy the ride🚀!
💌Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎂🎈HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMMANUEL!🍰🎁
🙌Congratulations twenty times over! 📃We have already greeted you on Facebook where your mom👩 has posted two great pictures of you👨 on this special day.📷 To us, you're looking well-aplenty at twenty😎.
💞We are quite sure that all the important people in your life will want to make this event one of the happiest birthdays you've had so far🎂. Please, count us among them👴👵 and have a great day🌅.
Two decades of life are certainly cause for a whole weekend of friendly greetings🙋, good wishes💌 and joyful celebrations🎉. Here's to many happy returns, too.👐
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎶🎶HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARCIA!🎶🎶
🙉It's probably a good thing that you can't hear us singing the birthday song🎵🎂🎵. We want only beautiful music for a woman who brings so much joy and harmony into the lives of others💕. Happy birthday, dear Marcia, 🎶happy birthday to you.🎶
📃We hope these blog wishes reach you wherever you happen to be in the world today🌏. We have already greeted you on Facebook as well👍. Your day will be probably be filled with the well-wishes of family and friends💞. We hope so.🎭
Please add our love into the mix that makes this birthday extra-special for you🎂🎈🎁. Here's to a taste of heaven at 67🎼🎶. Cheers!🍸
💌Love you lots,
Louise and David
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🎂🍷HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BONNIE!🍷🎂
📃Our greetings are being sent to you from Peachland🍑 on a spring-like morning in the Okanagan Valley🌄. There's already plenty of cause for celebration on such a rare January day⛄. The fact that it is also your birthday🎂 adds an extra touch of warmth to Mother Nature's generous gift🎁.
💞We imagine that all the special people in your life will want you to be "filled with glee at 53"🙌. Count us among them as we join Robert👨, Jessica👱 and Nicholas👲 in wishing you the kind of Sunday that puts the icing on the cake of a wonderful birthday weekend🍰.
🔮May you get to enjoy many happy returns of this occasion in your life, Bonnie🎭. We'll drink to that!🍷🍷
💌Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎂🏄HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TERENCE!🏃🎂
🎉Congratulations to you at 32!😎 Jenalee has already posted a delightful birthday collage of pictures📷 that let us see how special you are in her own life👮 and in all of Dominick's days👦.
🍑We have also responded to Sonia's tribute to you as her brother-in-law💕. The pictures of you and Dominick💗 capture father-and-son moments🎢 that are forever precious. 🎈How could your birthday be anything but joyful when that wonderful little boy is there to share it with you🏄🎂🏃? Enjoy!🎁
📃In closing, we want to give another 'thumb's up'👍 to the sentiment behind Sonia's clever poster📄: 'Glad you're part of my wolf pack🐺. Happy Birthday'🙋!
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🔔💑HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, DIANE AND MICHAEL!💑🔔
Congratulations on the forty-first anniversary of your wedding day💒. Here in Peachland🍑, we are awaiting the arrival of Carol and Tony🚗 who are driving through the mountains from Canmore on this spring-like day🌄.
We hope you are already enjoying a day of remembering past accomplishments🎭, celebrating the present moment🔔 and anticipating future joys🔮. Later today, we will raise a drink to wish you many happy returns of this day in your lives💍. In fact, we intend to share your anniversary toast🍻 with Carol and Tony this evening when the four of us are together in the Okanagan Valley💞. Cheers!🍷🍷
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎂HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY, TONI!🎂
👶You are sure making a big hit on Facebook where your Aunt Sonia has posted a cute collage of you📷 and where so many of the special people in your life🎁 are wishing you birthday fun.🎈 Today, you truly are Number ONE🎂.
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💌Big hugs and lots of love,
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🎈🎁HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EDWARD!🎈🎂
Congratulations!🎉 You're doing great at 68🚶. Carol and Tony👫 are in Peachland with us🍑 and we have already been talking about the fact that it's your birthday🎂. We hope your mid-week celebration is a happy one💕.
🚗Pat and Pat Cooper are coming over for coffee this morning☕ and the six of us will probably send birthday thoughts💡 your way as we chat and reminisce🎭. Of course, we know that your family in Regina will also be celebrating YOU today🎇.
👴👵 We're eager to join Deanie👩, Holly👱, Heather💆 and all of the beautiful people in your life💞 in wishing you the kind of birthday that suits you perfectly from beginning to end👣.
Many happy returns, too🎂🎈🎁. Cheers!🍻
💌Love you lots,
Louise and David
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🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRACE-ANNE!🎈
🎉Congratulations! 💕Let your friends and family have fun sharing this Wednesday birthday with beautiful you👱.
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Thank you Louise, David, Tony and Carol and Pat and Pat.
Your greeting is added to the many I received today and they have all made a very great day even greater.
I have had a very good birthday
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🏄🎁HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAHLESS!🎁🏄
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🎂MOM 101 - 🎂January 19, 1918
🎁What a gift she was to me!🎭
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Thanks Louise.
I was thinking about Mom today too.
I always do on her birthday and of course lots of other times too!
Love.
ME
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🎂🕺HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LUI!🏂🎂
🎤Our greetings are being sent to you from Peachland🍊 on this bright Monday morning🌝.
It’s fun to start a new week with a celebration of YOU at 14.🥰 Congratulations!🎁
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🎈🎁HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHERI SMITH!🎁🎈
💃You are making a real hit on Facebook this morning. Sonia has posted one of her special birthday collages for you📸, and several people have already sent complimentary greetings your way💕. Congratulations!🎂
We especially want to join Jordon🙋🏻♂️ in wishing you a great day as you turn twenty. The pictures of the two of you together💑 are especially good ones👍. You also look right at home with some of the kids in Jordon’s family🏡. Everyone recognises how very special you are.👩🏻
May this be a day of joyful memories👩🏻🎓, fun times🍰 and future hopes🔮. We’ll drink to that.🥃 Cheers!🥂
💌Warm birthday greetings,
Louise and David
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💕HAPPY TRANSPLANT ANNIVERSARY NUMBER 21, MARCIA AND TONY!💕
🙌Congratulations and good health to each of you on this remarkable anniversary day. 📷Sonia has posted her best-ever Facebook collage of thanksgiving for Tony's ongoing presence in our lives🎭 and for Marcia's gift of a kidney to him 21 years ago today💗.
💑What a close and loving family Carol and Tony have all around them in Regina🏡! 📅Just last week, we considered ourselves very lucky to have the two of them all to ourselves in Peachland🍑 for a few wonderful days. We even managed to share some of Tricia's "more moments" with cousins, Pat Cooper👨 and Penny Rasmussen👩.
It's times like these that make us all the more grateful🙏 for that long-ago day of generous giving💜 and courageous receiving💙 between a sister and a brother who continue to bring so much joy to others🔥. Cheers!🍷🍷
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎁🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHAEL!🎂🎁
🙋Greetings from us in Peachland🍑 where we have wakened to a white, white world this morning⛄. Luckily, the only thing on our agenda in this winter wonderland❄ is our celebration of your sixty-third birthday🎂. Congratulations!🙌
🏡You'll probably have to put in a full day's work before you can blow out those 63 candles🔥 and cut your birthday cake🍰. In the meantime, we hope you're getting lots of good wishes from family and friends💌 as you go about your business🚗.
💻Happy sales to you, Mike! 🍻We'll drink to that and to many happy returns of this January birthday in your life🎂. Cheers!🍷🍷
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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After a day in downtown Vancouver in and out of the cancer center, seeing street people who appear to have no family to support them,and sleeping in the rain, we are again reminded how lucky we are to have love and generosity all around us. This stark reality reminds us of Maria's unconditional gift 21 years ago.
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🎂🏂HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRADEN!🏃🎂
🙋Hey there! Today it finally registered with us that you were born on Robbie Burns Day👨. He's Scotland's National Poet📜✒, so a whole nation is celebrating today🍛🍴. Party on in California, too⛵.
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