Cryptic Taunt!

Supporters and friends,

This year has been a rough move for us, we have had our power cut off twice since we moved in back in February to our new home in Daytona Beach. It seems the part time work I was doing for a local charity has not been enough to make up for the lack of support for the CCIB, so we have been in hard times. With the economy the way it is, I understand people's reluctance to help out the CCIB and purchase our goods, so we have decided to lower the price of the shirts we sell as one token of appreciation and help in hard times. Please consider helping, for though we rent the storage unit with the attached office for the CCIB, me, Ernie and Great Uncle Derick also live here for now. Its not easy, but we believe we are more strategically placed to solve the mystery since all of the recent reliable sightings have been in the south.

Now, on to the news. I received an email from a from one claiming to be named "Noel Cacti", the same email address was used that previous taunts came from. Ernie says it is still in some form of 'leek speak', often used on the internet by young riff-raff types (and as I said before, he learned about this in his computer classes, I was skeptical if they would be of any use but I see now that he's actually learning things, but again I digress.)

Here is the message we received (I did not change it at all):

"CaNt HiDe, we C U! TX n 09! RoAD tRip 4U LOL - N03L CaCt1"

Ernie has interpreted the message as a taunt, apparently the 'Noel Cacti' has followed our every move and knows we are now in Florida and plans to hit Texas again this year to force a long trek for us. Ernie saus the message should read "You cannot hide, we see you. Texas in 2009, a road trip for you - Noel Cacti". If this is accurate, and I believe it is, being a little more fluent in hooligan online writing style, it is a groundbreaking admission that the Noel Cactis is what we have thought - more than one person. The writer said "we", so it is a network, or at least more than one person working together.

We will update, and plan to preposition Ernie and myself in Texas next month while Great Uncle Derick holds down the HQ.

More later, we have work to do!

As always, if you have any information leading to the discovery of the Christmas Cactus, or to report a sighting, please email us at legendofthechristmascactus@gmail.com.