[Molly Pitcher]

Raven... my answer to that headline would be: Well, DUH!!

I think lysie and I can continue to start the thread, but on a weekly basis, with another one for the weekends.

Would that be followable?

This thread...and the UvC one which I started for some months...personally have seen me thru much: family deaths, the last years at home, college, and then away of my sons, and the early "empty nest" years...

There's just something about being able to connect so easily and early (!!) in the a.m. with like-minded friends. HA!

My experience isn't unique, I know...

And in the larger sphere: the last Clinton years, 2 contentious national elections, devastating terror attacks...those events without our gathering every day to share and support are simply unimaginable.

So my thought is to continue as long as possible, if that is the wish, and it appears to be among some of us....

[lysie]

Please see post 31.

Details will have to be worked out, but Molly and I will give it a try.

[gulfcoast6]

With you two here, there will be NO ‘as long as possible’, it is a winner in my book, lets do it!!!

To you who have ‘vacated’ here, come on back, we love you and miss you, hear me MozartLover?

[Jemian]

Chairman, thank you for your years of service to America - the Right Way! It has been a long haul. I have enjoyed reading your opening essays; they have been inspired. Your weather reports have been phenomenal. I wish you would keep doing that as a regular poster. And what would Christmas be without your Christmas Tree in our opening posts? We’ve enjoyed the views of your cottage during the Christmas season. Thank you.

And so, where to go from here? This is the longest running daily thread on Free Republic. We’ve suffered losses through the years but especially in recent months. GC6 said it has been like friends moving from the neighborhood and we’re not sure if we’ll see them again. That was a very apt analogy.

Molly, I think it is time to go to a weekly long-running thread with another for the weekends. When our regular posts get back up to the numbers of before; and I think they will; we could then go back to a daily with perhaps a consortium doing the hosting honors. If you and Lysie are willing, I would be glad to follow your lead.

The last thing I would like is for the thread to fade into the sunset. I don’t think any of us would like that.

Thank you, Chairman, for taking the helm for so long.

[illstillbe]

Well, Old Soul lodged himself under my bed today ... a thunderstorm hit and he scooted ... scooted so far under my bed, he could not figure out how to get out ... I came home to find his big hips sticking out from under the bed .... I bent down to see his sorry eyes, looking all about ... a bit humiliated , I suspect ....