HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUDCAT & my thanks to Dick, Susan, Max, Dennis & all the other elfs & clones, my heroes.

Yes, time does flies when you're having fun. I just checked my 1st post was 12 feb of 97, I think I had been lurking about a month at that point. I had just fallen off a roof while working & broke both feet & the family was in terror, fear of being around me in housed 24/7. So it was decieded for their health that I needed a 1st computer. It saved them, I found mudcat while doing song researchs. Since then I've met many who I would've never come across otherwise, been to a lot of music gatherings where I otherwise would've never heard about or bothered with. I also found more of the histories & backgrounds to the songs I knew & didn't know & to songs I found here. Best of all though, was in meeting the posters for the 1st time & my 1st Getaway where there was, what I thought, a mass meeting of mudcatters, which really has turned into a great gathering of mudcatters & the Washington - Baltimore area folkies +, who most of us wouldn't have met if they hadn't have hosted us.

Barry