Tonight I'm looking at old blogs on this site. There used to be so many of us, and I recognize about 20% of the names. It's interesting to explore from different directions, clicking on various Channels to see what got classified as "Life and Events, Boring" for example. And then following one name to see what they posted about.


Most of them haven't posted here in years, but once in awhile one of them pops in and marvels at how empty it is. I admit that I don't blog regularly, have not help up my end of the bargain, and I am not sure that I will do any better going forward.

In the meantime, I am copy/pasting what Jeri wrote over the years into a big master document that is a combo of letters she wrote me and what she posted on the blog for all of us to see. The two are complimentary.

I'm also looking at what I posted at various times as troutbend, kitchentales, and traveltales. Troutbend was supposed to write about life here in Colorado. Kitchentales was supposed to post recipes, and Traveltales was supposed to post about life in Las Vegas when we were staying in hotels all the time. At one point, Jeri was having trouble with the platform and not seeing my messages so I had to switch to logging in as traveltales all the time. This caused some confusion because other users were still sending me messages on Troutbend etc.

Some of the things I wrote years ago are so interesting to me now, I am pasting them into a Word doc in case this platform disappears some day. I owe Eddie a huge debt of gratitude for keeping it going all these years. We've built strong friendships, but as we saw with Jeri, they only endure as long as each of us is able to log in. Lose that, and our friend is gone forever.