Joe and Lynda's Christmas Letters

    Belated  Holidays 2023 Oops, New Year 2024 greetings! Well as we approached this Christmas season and the end of 2023, we were finally ready to write this letter after the big day we were anticipating sharing with all y’all (that’s foreshadowing... read on). Unfortunately, before we printed it, we had an unexpected event that derailed our epistle yet again. We’ve now settled on Lunar New Year as our new letter deadline and hope it reaches you swiftly (since we’re mailing it so late!) and finds you healthy, happy, warm, and dry. We’ve had something of an unexciting but expensive year as we run our geriatric cat care clinic here in Houston. This year Smoke and Scrappy, who turned 19 and 16 respectively, started to really struggle with kidney disease and other old age ailments. We began the year with Lynda’s birthday and then rapidly rolled into our first encounter with the Covid virus. We were thankful for tests on hand, and that we were fully vaccinated and had ...