This is the 23rd End-of-Year newsletter we have composed using the technology of the day, including links. Strictly speaking, once again, this is not a "letter." Those are missives in a pleasant type face, on fancy holiday "paper", carefully folded and sent through snail-mail with something attached called a "postage stamp!"(78 cents). If you want an historical look back, last year's letter is here.

Our daily activities are all listed in our 2025 Journal. The year's milestones and highlights, however, are summarized below. Distribution is accomplished by sending the link in an email and modifications occur in response to questions/suggestions from friends and family. Click here to send me a note.
Status
Tom is 79 and Lew is 76. We've been retired for 17 years and, since May, 2019. we're living in Wyomissing, PA, 1/4 mile from Sal, Kate, D, and Leo (SKDL). Our King Charles Spaniel, Holly, is 7.
Health
Issues 		At our ages, I suppose annual letters start with health updates. My prostate cancer isn't going to go away; it's just not very important. My desk drawer has 12 pill bottles, half of them twice-a-day, two eye drops, and an insulin syringe, but I'm still on the grass side of the dirt! Lydia has no major health issues and will certainly outlive me. After all, her maternal grandmother reached 103 and her mother - - 106!
Travel We had some vacation travel this year. Our first trip to Disney World was in May, joined by Lyd's brother, Bill. August had us in Maine, aboard the American Glory with Americsn Cruise Lines, from Bangor to Portland, Maine. We were back at Disney World in September.
Theater Though I still maintain the Community Players of Salisbury's website, Leo is the theatrical member of the family, these days. He had a featured role in the High School production of High School Musical in February, and in April in Fiddler on The Roof. He did a duet in The Fall Thing, in November.
Family
Sal continues web design, working out of the home, and Kate continues practicing dermatology. Dominic (or "D", as he is known to one and all) is 17 and in the 11th grade at Wyomissing Junior Senior High, and still runs Cross Country. Leo is 14 in the 8th grade at the junior-senior high school. With our Zoom account, we still host family game night, monthly, for the Ferrarello extended family.
2026 In 2026, we will go to WDW 3 times. Our first in March, and again, in June, with SKDL. In July, we're taking a cruise with American Cruise Lines on the Tennessee River, with Bill. Lyd and I will have our Disney fall holiday, in September. Wyodrama will produce The Music Man, Jr. in February, and Leo has the lead as Professor Harold Hill.
Merry Christmas, 2025 and Happy New Year, 2026



Tom and Lydia (& Holly)