Thanks for the positive update on your daughter and kind remarks. Easy to lose sight of the time that passes, sometimes. Will pray that her life continues to bloom and y'all's too.

This board has been and continues to be comprised of 'passionate' as well as 'opinionated' individuals, many of whom are well versed in specific areas and perfectly willing to share an insight or assist another when they can; been that way from the get go. Have made some lasting friendships and acquaintances because of its existence over the years that would never have been possible otherwise. Sorely miss many of those now passed, inclusive of one that told me I was an 'idjit' for suggesting once that an individual who was prematurely wringing their hands over a recent purchase to 'just go shoot it at some skeet targets and see whether you can hit anything with it or not,' rather than patterning it first. I still think it was a reasonable enough and easily accomplished suggestion. Ha!

Personally, I value this place highly and have benefitted from its existence.. for a long while now; fairly close to right out of the gate on the original site, but lost that sequential low digit member# when the domain change took place.

And I'll continue to support it so that others might benefit as much as I have.

kind regards, tw