Christmas care packages continue to go out. :-D
norton is sending two large boxes to FOB Joyce;
Total of 11 beef and 3 turkey sausages,
11 smoked cheddar and 5 jalapeno cheeses,
20 packets of hot cider and 40 cocoa mix
Mailed November 23, 2011, to base near Kandahar, 5 care packages 12x12
Box 1, THANK YOU to jtill for donating this box, insured $145.28, postage $15.80
red Santa hat with white fuzzy ball and trim
14 DVD movies:
Tortilla soup (Hector Elizondo)
Stand and Deliver (Edward James Olmos)
La Bamba (Lou Diamond Phillips)
Latin Kings of Comedy (sent as requested, but R rated for a reason, don’t recommend)
Honey (Jessica Alba)/Blue Crush/Jose and the Pussycats THREE pack
Mask of Zorro (Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones)
Song of Hiawatha (Litefoot, Graham Greene)
Thunderheart (Val Kilmer, Graham Greene)
Pow Wow Highway (A Martinez)
Smoke Signals (Irene Beach, Irene Bedard)
Dreamkeeper (Cody Lightning)
Rescue Dawn (Christian Bale)
3 BOOKS:
Complete Sherlock Holmes, vol I (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Complete Sherlock Holmes, vol II
Every Living Thing (James Herriot)
2 bags Halloween candy:
28 fun size Snickers
32 Starburst
3 Magazines:
Reader’s Digest November 2011
Reader’s Digest December 2011
Sports Illustrated: College Basketball
Christmas theme stickers
Christmas card
Box 3, value $18.79, postage $12.95
THANK YOU to Lets Roll for boxes 3 and 4
14 boxes Swiss Miss hot chocolate (10 envelops/box)
1 box 1000 icicles (tinsel)
Box 4, value $11.76, postage $12.95
8 boxes 12 peppermint candy canes regular size and
47 individual candy canes bubble wrap cocooned.
Box 5, value $18.79, postage $12.95
THANK YOU to Kitty Mittens for boxes 5 and 6
14 boxes Swiss Miss hot chocolate (10 envelops/box)
1 box 1000 icicles (tinsel)
Box 6, value $11.76, postage $12.95
8 boxes 12 peppermint candy canes regular size and
47 individual candy canes bubble wrap cocooned.
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Box 2 to Kandahar needs customs form done, but is packed with granola bars and movies. Also have 3 boxes movies, books, goodies for FOB Joyce that are close to finished, sponsored by Enterprise and jtill. Finally, lots more candy canes and cocoa for Kandahar, which will be going out Friday or Monday, but need sponsors, or a few troop supporters to help with postage or content costs.
It’s looking good!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Mailed December 1, 2011, to FOB Joyce, 2 boxes 12x12
Box 1, insured $166.54, postage $15.80
THANK YOU to jtill for pledged donation toward this box
11 DVD movies:
Reign of Fire (Christian Bale, Matthew McConnaughy)
Outlander (Jim Caviezel)
How to Train your Dragon (Jay
Unbreakable (Bruce Willis)
Lethal Weapon 1,2, 3, and 4 (Mel Gibson, Danny Glover)
Mo’ Better Blues (Denzel Washington)
Lawrence of Arabia (Peter O’Toole, Alec Guiness, Omar Sharif)
Frequency (Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel)
5 BOOKS:
Most Secret (Nevil Shute)
Tunnel in the Sky (Robert A. Heinlein)
Sarum (Edward Rutherford)
Russka (Edward Rutherford)
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)
10 Wet Wipes
1 bag corn candy
1 bag mallow pumpkins
1/2 bag pecans
3 little individual bags Halloween candy 4 corn candy, 4 Indian corn, 3 pumpkins, double Starburst)
1 magazine: Reader’s Digest October 2011, “Funny Power”
Box 2, insured $263.95, postage $17.70
THANK YOU to Enterprise for donation for this box
1 Santa Hat (red fuzzy hat with white fuzzy ball and trim)
1 miniseries DVD:
Jesus of Nazareth (Franco Zefferelli directing)
16 DVD movies:
Apollo 13 (Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise)
The Right Stuff (Scott Glen, Sam Shepard, Jeff Goldblum, Dennis Quaid)
Star Trek (Chris Pine)
Hitch (Will Smith)
The Gods must be Crazy I and II
The King’s Speech (Colin Firth)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Chevy Chase)
The Santa Clause (Tim Allen)
A Christmas Story (about Ralphie and the bee bee gun)
Tyler Perry’s Daddy Little Girls
Madagascar
Madagascar: Return2Africa
The Penguins of Madagascar
Ghostbusters I and II (Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray)
9 BOOKS:
The Mountain Valley War (Louis L’Amour)
Rider of Lost Creek (Louis L’Amour)
Kilkenny (Louis L’Amour)
Hondo (Louis L’Amour)
Last of the Breed (Louis L’Amour)
Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
Teeth of the Tiger (Tom Clancy)
The Bear and the Dragon (Tom Clancy)
Glory Road (Robert A. Heinlein)
1 bag Butterfingers
3 candy canes
2 cherry Chapsticks
2 Imprimis newsletters (Executive Power in wartime; The Presidency and the Constitution)
1 bag Sunsweet dry mixed fruit
Mailed December 1, 2011, to base near Kandahar, 3 boxes 12x12
Box 2, insured $116.01, postage $15.80
9 DVD movies:
The Great Raid (Joseph Fiennes, Benjamin Bratt)
The Quick and the Dead (Sam Elliot, Kate Capshaw)
Night at the Museum (Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson)
Night at the Museum II, Battle for the Smithsonian (Ben Stiller,
The 2 documentaries on wolves were wrapped in Christmas paper and silver bow
Wolves: A Legend Returns to Yellowstone
Yellowstone: Valley of the Wolves; Christmas in Yellowstone
Louis L’Amour 3 pack: The Sacketts miniseries with Sam Elliot, : Conagher with Sam Elliot, ; Catlow with Yul Bryner
BOOKS:
Fallon (Louis L’Amour)
The Key-Lock Man (Louis L’Amour)
2 boxes 30 Nature Valley fruit and nut bars
5 freebie paper perfume/cologne
3 Franklin Graham newsletters
1 box 10 Swiss Miss hot chocolate
magazine: National Geographic on The Bible, King James version
1 Happy Hanukkah card (signed Yehuda and Merry Band of Patriots)
1 Christmas card signed with jtill, Enterprise, Lets Roll, Kitty Mittens, patriciaruth, PGalt real names.
1 roll Scotch tape to tape the bow on the wrapped package.
Box 9, insured $59.10, postage $15.25
6 boxes 12 peppermint candy canes
1 box 22 peppermint candy canes
BOOK:
NatGeo hardcover coffee table book: Indian Nations of North America (Christmas wrapped with bow)
Box 11, value $14.82, postage $12.95
3 boxes 24 peppermint candy canes
3 boxes Swiss Miss hot chocolate
Nativity scene window sticker figures
2 boxes Reach mint waxed floss
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Boxes 7, 8, and 10 for Kandahar are close to packed, and have one with Christmas presents for FOB Joyce to finish.
Anyone able to send hot chocolate to Kandahar?