Greetings
September 1, 2007 - September 8, 2007
The most recent week's greetings, Sunday through Saturday, are posted here in descending order. Scroll down to see previous days. Reach out and touch someone! Send your own greeting»

September 8, 2007




To: Mom
I love you and hope you get to feeling better soon. I still can't make pudding from scratch and I will always blame your "pinch and dash" recipe rather than owning up to my own culinary inadequacies...
—Star Foster

September 7, 2007




To: Bob Thuemmel
hey, you! didya hear patty griffin last week? didya know Garrison's gonna be in Portland October 9. Wanna meet? Baghdad Theater....
—Jenny Root



To: Christy Jones
Hello to CJ in Hattiesburg, MS from your old college pal,Rhonda,in Virginia. I figured if I couldn't get you by phone, I knew I could catch you listening to the show!
—Rhonda Greene

September 5, 2007




To: Elaine
Just saying hi to my wife Elaine, whom I met 12,057 days ago on our first day of college, as we send our son Neil off to his first day of college, and our daughter Jane off to her first day of the "post Colgate" working world. Love...Bill
—Bill Phelan

September 4, 2007




To: My Wife Rhonda
Happy 25th anniversary darlin' You probaly would have put a lesser man in the ground before now. LUV James.
—James A. Heath

September 3, 2007




To: Dan & Mary Agrell Stroeing
October 2007 Message: Happy 58th birthday Dan & 55th birthday Mary. Lets celebrate at Charlies Cafe in Freeport, MN. You can take a taxi from Minneapolis...right?
—Quincy Stroeing



To: Mom & Dad Cardinal
Greetings from son and family in oak ridge TN. We hope your fishing trip went well, see you at the blue grass festival this fall.
—mark cardinal

September 1, 2007




To: Steve and Mary Olson
Congratulations on getting off the farm, even for just a weekend. Enjoy the show and fair. PS Ralph asks is Garrison taller in person?
—Chuck and Sara Cohen



To: lum&steve,joel&donna & mama zaitz
a day at the minnesota state fair ,an evening under the moon with our prairie home companions,only uncle Ike's sweet corn could be sweeter, Get well soon mama Zaitz, we'll see you when the geese head south!
—sandy & paul eppling
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