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Christmas 2010, deer hunting, student of the year

Christmas greetings from the Whitlow Smoke School Nation family and crew. During December and January we are taking the Whitlow Smoke School Nation tour into Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Kentucky. Our tour locations and dates are posted at the end of this email. You can click here to see the schedule for the next 6 months.

It is already Christmas again. Merry Christmas from all of us to all of you. Happy Birthday Jesus. It has been rather warm for Christmas in Dixie. Here in Monroe Louisiana at 4 in the morning it is now 55 degrees F. Since both of our smoke school crews are fully functioning independently of me, my other brother Joe and I have been able to deer hunt nearly every day since November 4. There have been a few really cold mornings but most of the time I wear light weight camouflage overhauls and a jacket. Most of the evenings, I have to fight off the mosquitoes. I wish I could get Angie to hunt more. She has been a few times, but I guess it is not her cup of tea.

We are doing most of our hunting on our new lease located in Caldwell Parish near the junction of Louisiana Highway 846 at Tin Top Road. Map it. We are hunting in a section of the woods with too many hallows and hills for logging. Therefore we have a lot of beautiful old growth hardwood timber with white oak, red oak, and pin oak. We are not seeing that many deer, so we are looking for a new place to hunt. I would love to try some ground around Castor Creek or in the marsh area around Dodson, Louisiana. Attention all Weyerhaeuser personnel. Let us know if you have a place where we can hunt ducks or deer. Have gun will travel anywhere to find deer.

The greatest event in our life lately is our son Aaron Cardinal (center in white shirt). He was named the student of the year at Pinecrest School in Ouachita Parish. Aaron made the newspaper click here to read all about it. Aaron deserves most of the credit because he is the one busting the books. Aaron has made some dramatic changes since last school year. It seems like last year that I got a call every other week from some upset teacher complaining about Aaron’s grades and his cocky attitude and behavior in classes. Aaron was depressed leaving his birth father, Joe Cardinal back in Indiana so I packed Joe up and moved him down here to be with his son. Joe has become my other brother, Joe. Aaron also needed a positive male role model. I said not to worry, he has me. They said-- a positive role model. So we signed Aaron up for the boy scouts to get to know the scout master, Saint Paul Laird, who works for us. Angie has been burning the midnight oil to get Aaron to bust the books. This is a dramatic story of hope for all of us facing problems raising our kids. We, as parents, need to be alert to minor changes in our kid’s life and take action. You cannot just sit there like a bump on a log and let the chips fall where they will. You have to make it happen. You have to have faith, get down on your knees to speak the good Lord above and make it happen.

Football season is almost over. LSU did ok although they did not win the national championship. I am a little disappointed. I must admit that I really love watching Auburn and it looks like they are well on the way to be national champions. Drew Bres and the Saints are doing very good and I expect them to win the Super Bowl again this year.

And that is the news from Lake Whitlow Begone where all the woman are brave, all the men are good looking, and all of the children are above average.