been offline--which to me really means offMudcat, cause it's the Internet to me--for a couple of years, i think. This thread has been FABULOUS! it's enough to have me logging on again! with my lastborn [aetat. 19] off to university in a few weeks, i'll be using the old email and dropping in to the cafe here. i'll fish out my last email from JoeOffer and get my cookies|membership together. [the BS with the rude "guests" is really terribly puerile, BUT the true 'catter threads like this one make my day. I could at several points in the dialogue have posted "ditto what he|she said" ~ much that resonates with my own experiences, both over the years, and across instruments--i'm a better guitar picker and a worser mandolinist, and a beginner on the tenor guitar, and I love all kinds of making music.   

thanx 4 starting the thread Melissa

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