Dental Checkup
Dear  [Lynn],
Well, has the nasty weather arrived yet? It’s beautiful here today – sunny blue skies and temp around 50 degrees. Snow is quickly melting.
Oh I am just so grateful that you manage to stay up until 9:30 to complete a conversation with me. You epitomize altruism. 
On the thermostat: If it’s a programmable one, then the batteries may be going dead – if it has batteries. The one I had in my house in Ohio had batteries. Although I never got to see how it behaved when those batteries went dead. I always replaced them each year.
Sounds like [your daughter] will like the gift. Even if she doesn’t appreciate the skirt itself, she’ll surely be moved by the love you’ve shown by thinking of her on your vacation.
Yep, being here with the family is much more pleasant that I imagined it would be.
Went to the dentist today for the every-six-month cleaning. Nothing too bad appeared, although the x-rays showed some questionable dark patches around a root canal I had in 1998. The dentist thinks it may be an infection and has placed me on antibiotics for a few weeks, and then he wants to x-ray it again. Gosh, it’s always something, ‘eh?
Later.
Tom