December 08, 2014
Monday PM

Let me start by saying I am writing this letter for my wife. Every year she waits patiently for the Holidays, especially Christmas, her absolute favorite. In our house, she without question is in charge of decorating the outside of our home, she does the inside as well, but her real joy is doing the outside. We live on lower Fairy Chasm Rd. so I'm sure there are many of you who know which house it is. She enjoys many, many compliments from the good people of Ketchikan every year, so you can see what motivates her to decorate the way she does. And yes, the house looks great every Christmas. She does try to do different things each year. And always does a great job.

Today is the 7th of December, sometime last night someone or maybe more than one Jr. Einstein decided they could just help themselves to one of her decorations, a deer that had lights, something she has had for a very long time. Needless to say she was not to happy to discover the missing deer. Over the years we've had other decorations stolen.

I am at a quandary as to why it is that whoever keeps stealing from our yard feels the need to keep doing it. If you can't afford your own decorations, feel free to just come and knock on our door, I will be happy to give you a donation towards you being able to buy your own. If you do what my wife does every year which is go to WALMART and purchase Christmas decorations after Christmas at a really cheap price, then you should be able to get your own. Or the other option would be, let me catch you stealing from us, I would much prefer that option so I could "teach" you that it is wrong to steal anything that doesn't belong to you.

I understand that if you are the one or ones that did this and you get a chance to read this letter, you won't care, probably even laugh at it and be proud of what you have done. I feel sorry for you if that is the case, as one day you might be in the same boat.

To all the people who take the time to actually drive or walk by the house to see what she has done and offer her the compliments she so much loves to hear, I thank you, it means the world to her. Like I said at the start of this letter, I wrote it for her. Unlike me, she is much to nice to say anything and instead chooses to just live with it.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Ketchikan !!!

Ted Cabot
Ketchikan, Alaska

Received December 07, 2014 - Published December 08, 2014

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