Well damn......Here I am late as usual. 'Course I notice its not THE day yet so at least I ain't a day late and a dollar short........uh, check that......I mean like I'm always a dollar short!

I'd like to say that you're not getting older, you're getting better, but the plus side is that I can't imagine you gettin' much better....... so that leaves the down side as bein' that you're just gettin' older! This is goin' pretty bad so far ain't it? Geeziz......lemmee see here................

They say though that old wine just gets better with age and that's true unless its been mishandled and had to go through the everyday cycles of things in which case it may have gone flat and turned bitter. You have faced the best and worst of all that life has given you and now like that mishandled wine.................. well hell, this still ain't workin' out!.............wait a minute....wait a minute.......I got it now.................

Sandy, on this special day I want you to look back over all the people you've touched with the blessings of folk music and the freedom of thought that comes from the mingling of the old and the new; to see how far things have come in folk and the arts as well. Now you can look forward to the continued growth of the arts, of folk, and of that freedom which...................aw damn.......I forgot........ We got at least 4 years of the friggin' "shrub" who'd like to put freedom in a cod-lock..........'course on the other hand, it might help folk music a bit..................Well anyway this ain't what I wanted to say either.....................

I guess the real problem here is that the wonderful karen k. has summed it up beautifully in the first post and I can't think of a way it could have been better said:

Sandy, my wish for you is that you have a great day and many, many more years to come. I wish you good health, good friends, great family and thank you for recording and sharing the most amazing music...................She done good didn't she?

Happy Birthday Sandy.....and a hug for Caroline too.

All The Best

Spaw