By now everyone should be nestled all snug in your beds while visions of sugar-plums dance in your heads. We have come to that point in the waning year when we take the time to wish all our gracious friends/subscribers/readers a very merry Christmas.
It is a joyous time of the year and we wish to extend our gratitude and heartfelt thanks for giving us the most precious of resources – your time. We here in the Intrigued family hope your hearts are encouraged, your stockings are full and your holidays gathered with those special people in your lives.
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With these days of sparkle and cheer comes a flood of memories from days gone by. It is one of the few times every year when the entire family is able to get together and restrengthen the bonds that kept us so close over the years. We truly miss our parents and keep them in our hearts as we do our best to carry on the tradition with our siblings and their families.
That tradition is carried on with our Intrigued family as well. Our company gatherings are legendary as everyone is usually in from the field by now and ready to finally relax and enjoy the hard earned time off until the New Year comes. The staff you mostly interact with wanted to personally send their Christmas cheer!
Here is Jan (editor/photographer), Brad (editor/photographer) and me (Lord Overseer ha).
Note, we finally forced Jan to officially take on the photographer role as you may have noticed, many of her shots find their way into Brad’s posts.
I almost didn’t include this next shot of Brad and Jan in the field as it gives away a bit of a secret to a major theme for upcoming 2026 posts. Just don’t let your eyes wander to the background ha.
And of course, our Western HQ staff wanted to send you their Christmas wishes as well. Our associate editor Elfie has had to do double duty as of late helping Allyson, our Denver HQ editor, recover from her ankle injury. Trust me, I know exactly what Allyson is having to go through and wish her all the best for a full and speedy recovery! I am expecting new required safety courses from our HR department next year hehehe.
I should also make sure anyone who goes out in the field with me is up to date on their Red Cross training.
I am hoping to get at least one more post out before the end of the year to highlight our accomplishments and put a bow on the year. We will see how that goes as we need to start packing to head south and there are still a few things to tie up around the office before I turn the keys over to Brad (waiting on some final performance reviews from our Legal Department and still tracking down the individual responsible for the recent copier “incident”).
The good news is I did meet with the marketing and accounting teams last week and we were able to get all 6 of our domain names, the external domain hosting service the two WordPress hosting accounts and the all-important SmugMug gallery renewed for the next three years so we are good to go for the foreseeable future.
Take care everyone, have a very merry Christmas and safe travels for everyone out and about this holiday season. Thank you again for all your wonderful support this year. Lastly, to our Intrigued staff, thank you for all you do to make this thing happen.
Brian, Linda, Brad, Jan, Allyson, Raven, Ruger, Elfie and the rest of the staff working tirelessly behind the scenes.
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