Last week I announced the birth of Craig and Susan Shepard’s baby. The lovely Miss
Rylee Quinn Shepard is pictured above in the loving arms of her father. She weighed in at a very healthy 8 lbs. 1 ounce and was 20 inches long. Her birthday was 1 Dec. 2005. At last report, both Mom and Miss Rylee are doing great.
Every time a new baby is born, I think God hasn’t given up on us yet. Welcome to the world, Miss Rylee. It just got better because you’re in it now.

Yesterday the mailman delivered my deluxe edition DVD of the greatest movie ever made, KING KONG. This is the original 1933 product as made by Mereim C.Cooper and his pal,
Ernest Shoedsack. As I’ve often repeated here, it is my favorite movie and to have it in this durable format is just awesome. The deluxe package comes with a second disc loaded with two amazing documentaries. No KING KONG fan should be without it. Also worthy of mentioning, Warner Brothers also released the sequel, SON OF KONG and the original MIGHTY JOE YOUNG as well.
Great movies all! Just a few more days until Peter Jackson’s blockbuster arrives. Oh, yeah!

Last week’s Fortier Family Christmas get together went without a hitch and was a marvelous event. My two brothers and my sister, all made it up with their respective families and my own three kids (Scott, Kevin & Heather) also showed up; Scott with his precious 4 year old, Taryn. Sadly, Scott’s wife Katie couldn’t join us. She’s pregnant with our newest grand child, a boy, due the start of the new year and the trip up from Conn. was out of the question.
But Scott took lots of digital pictures for all of us. I love my family, I think they are grandest people in the world and am so blessed to be a part of them. This coming Sunday we head up to Manchester, N.H. to join Valerie’s clan. Should be another great day. Weather permitting.

Right, weather permitting. As I write this, we are now watching the snow fall in this, the first real storm of the winter season. The weather man says it will cease some time this afternoon, at which point I will don my ton and a half of winter gear, go out to garage, crank up the snowblower and go at it. The battle of winter has been joined once again. Let’s hope we win again. Ha.

That’s it from here, airmen. Have a good week. Ron, over and out.