Dear Tamara: Camp’s-a-Coming!
Hi [Tamara].
Happy Thanksgiving to you also.
Yes, I will indeed be gong to the retreat at camp next week.
Hmmm. I hadn’t heard that [Rick] was having such health problems that he was considering backing out of the winter camp trip. But then, I’ve been away for the past four days and so there are probably lots of new news items that I have not yet heard. Ah well. Such is the price of going away. 
Hope your computer recovery is going well. Those hard drive crashes are almost always nasty, and definitely never convenient.
Happy holidays to you, and we’ll talk to you soon, most definitely.
Later.