Mailed December 17, 2005, to our adopted company of Stryker Brigade at Mosul, 2 boxes
Box 1, insured $70.38, postage $9.90
5 Hickory Farms all-beef summer sausages 1 lb. each
Cheese:
2 lb bricks of Tillamook Medium Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Colby-Jack
2 baby Gouda 7 oz
2 Havarti 8 oz (one creamy, one with caraway seeds)
People magazine, 2005 review issue (President and Mrs. Bush full page picture/article)*
½ USA Today, Dec 15 issue*
Box 2: almost same as box 1, insured $70.38, postage $9.90
5 Hickory Farms all-beef summer sausages 1 lb. each
Cheese:
2 lb bricks of Tillamook Medium Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Colby-Jack
2 baby Gouda 7 oz
2 Havarti 8 oz (one plain, one with caraway seeds)
People magazine, different issue
½ USA Today, Dec 15 issue
Mailed December 19, 2005, 8 boxes to Mosul
Box 3, value $22.14, postage $7.70
Keebler’s 3 boxes Club crackers (96x4)
2 lb bag of Jelly Belly jelly beans (35x25)
4 magazines:
3 Weekly Standard (Aug 29, Sept 5, Oct 24) (Border Control, Iraq, CIA Plame affair)*
1 Army magazine, December, 2005
Box 4, value $17.98+7.00 (to disquise DVD), postage $7.70
Box Mauna Loa macadamia nut chocolate chip cookies (bite size) (40x4)
DVD: Forever Young (Mel Gibson)
2 lb. bag of Jelly Belly jelly beans
Box 5, value $8.19, postage $7.70
Box 2 lb 8 oz Wheat Thins crackers (16x36)
2 DVD recordings by MJY1288:
White House Christmas tour with Laura Bush
President Bush, December 7 speech on Iraq
Saturday, December 17, Los Angeles Times (front page, sports, business)*
Box 6, value $22.53, postage $7.70
4 canisters of Kool Aid Tropical Punch sugared mix, each makes 8 qts.
3 bags Klass Guanabana, each makes 6 qts.
Box 7, value $22.53, postage $7.70
4 canisters of Kool Aid Tropical Punch sugared mix, each makes 8 qts
3 bags Klass Tamarindo, each makes 6 qts.
Box 8, value $14.97, postage $7.70
3 boxes of Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies, each with 12 packs of 4 cookies
Box 9, value $6.99, postage $7.70
24 small bags Knott’s Berry Farm shortbread cookies (2 oz.)--8 raspberry, 8 boysenberry, and 8 strawberry centers
Box 10, value $12.34, postage $7.70
2 boxes Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies with 12 packs of 4 cookies
8 small bags of Knott’s Berry Farm shortbread cookies (2 oz) with apricot centers
*they had requested news magazines, newspapers, even People magazine.
Update:
We had word from our contact at Tal Afar (temporarily in Baghdad due to the election) that 22 boxes had arrived at Tel Afar since his last report. He will be back in Tall Afar just before Christmas, and we’ll probably get more detail then.
Nina0113 mailed the Xbox 100 to Bagram Saturday, December 17, with its extra controller accessory (she’d been penned in by an ice storm prior to that)
Before the ice storm she mailed Playstation2 accessories to the Engineers at Baghdad (4 player accessory and 64-Meg card).
Ican’tbelieveit sent 3 boxes to Mosul, 3 to Tal Afar, back on December 5, see post 1214 for details of cocoa, candy, garlands and entertainment.
Kattracks mailed 3 boxes of New Years paper goods, party favors, food and drink to MI at Kirkuk, see posts 1182.
And today she mailed them 6 Boxes Ritz/Keebler crackers w/ cheese (12 pkgs per box, 4 boxes flavored chips (12 pkgs per box), and 2 boxes Milano cookies (12 pkgs per box).
I mailed 14 boxes of New Years Party goods, food and drink to Mosul, see posts 1156, 1163, and 1188. Also sent one box for New Years to Kirkuk, post 1156.
SENClander mailed a big New Years box to Mosul with 200 envelops of Mott’s hot spiced apple cider mix (original, granny smith, red delicious, and golden delicious), 35 little bags of assorted Keebler’s cookies, two 'Happy New Year' banners, a Far Side 2006 calendar and a Ronald Reagan 2006 calendar.
Any of you who haven’t read the poem by an unknown author that Tunehead54 posted at 1169 should read it. It really begins to hit home after the first 20 verses.