Thank you Char for bustin' my chops to make good on my word to get back in here,LOL, and to thank you FormerlyLavendar (long time)! I've been talking about it for a long time, and I've got to say the time I'd been investing in facebook instead was growing kind of cloying. I mean that with no enmity toward anyone in their, especially for the main reason I got into it at all. I joined at the request of my daughter Mamie (age 30), and it seems her generation in large part - "Generation Y" a.k.a "The Millenials" are fond of facebook, which seems to be as much a part of their daily communications as smartphones (which I finally gave into recently, a stoic holdout prior to that).
Mamie though it would help me re-connect with, well, almost everyone I knew, during the slump, almost zombie-like time period for me that senior members in here might recall I went through after the loss I incurred in 2008 that turned everything upside-down for me. My daughter, that very special young lady who knows me so well, thought it would help get me out of that slump. It did in part, but with my contemporaries for the most part near killing themselves at work to keep their jobs (or companies) from going to China, they hardly had time to eat and spend an hour with their family everynight after work (if they were lucky), much less talk in facebook. So, to varying degrees, with very large exceptions to this in my age group as a "boomer", guys my age, notably my friends in specific, really are not a presence in facebook but one of *my* "real-life" friends.
So it seemed, there, I could not talk shop (though there is LinkedIn, which I do use to "geodetic"-away, LOL). Or cars, or wilderness exploits - memories by and large, since the event senior members might also recall *possibly* that essentially curtailed my mountain adventures, that I'm resolved to not wallow in. So, that left (in facebook,though its changing to broader,topical scope) a lot of baby pictures, happy young couples, wonderful stuff, wedding photos (hard memories on that one) and great stuff, but for me, an "aging bull", it just felt a bit cloying, despite the great daily conversations with my daughter, and her friends, gushing over new washing machines, disposable diapers, happy fresh-scrubbed babies (I love my grandson!),and you get the idea.
Not quite the enviroment for me (in large quantities) anymore, until I found the relatively new Lightfoot page (and I understand there is a second one, too). I saw maybe two old friends from corfid - Char, and Peewee (Ed),and thought "heck, time to just jump back in to talk Lightfoot and stuff with my like-minded friends". So here I am. Good to be back. And I still talk too much.
Post-by-post though, that's better too. This is my big "its good to be back', LOL.
Thanks!