A surprisingly popular post this time last year featured a little sampling of the Christmas letters my dad wrote to customers and suppliers of Col-Pac Lumber Company from 1972 to 2003. In the earliest years, I remember the Christmas letters were always printed on the company’s crisp Kermit-green letterhead – often in the form of a poem offering up reflections on the year ending. While the so-called lumber market “pause” referred to in last year’s post has been less evident this December in midst of unseasonably active trading, today does mark the week before Christmas – which seemed a good time to pull a few more letters from the archives, available at the links below.

Lumber n things -1976

Seasonal Memories – 1994

A Christmas Sermon on the Woods – 1997

Week Before Christmas – 2000