One thing that is certain and won't change is that all things change. Thank you all very much for the work that you do here and the reasons that you do it so that we may all interact on subjects that make up our beings. I know that things will go on and I hope that they go on with FAOL, because even though I don't post a lot, I am on here reading and learning basically every day here at "work", and it just makes the world a little nicer. I never met the venerable Mr. Castwell, but enjoyed many of his articles and so many short terse one sentence replies, that never were completed with, but looked to me like they should have ended with "you dummy" . After a few years of getting used to that I miss it now.

Another thing about contributing. A while back after reading some disparaging remarks about stocked trout, I wrote a little article about my limited experiences trout fishing and how I thought those stockers were wonderful. I debated for a while, after the surge to write it, about whether I should send it in to FAOL and finally decided that if Columbus took a chance why couldn't I, so I sent it. It may seem silly to many, but what a thrill it was when a couple months later when I logged on on Monday and there it was right on the front page! With the time lag I had thought that it probably wasn't up to FAOL standards and so would not be published, but there it was verbatim. Since the main theme of the story was about my wife, I e-mailed her the front page version with out ever telling her anything about it and she was amazed. She said " I never knew you felt that way about me going fishing with you, and how come there weren't any misspelled words?" It made me realize that many of us go through life assuming that others know how we feel about them just because "we" feel it everyday. I now understand that it might be a good thing to just tell them sometimes and make you both feel special for a while. Also how great is spell check !!

That kind of got away from me. The point is that if a hillbilly like me can make it to the front page more of you knowledgable experienced members should be submitting stuff and let the good editors decide what is good and what is not quite good enough with out a little tweaking. Get started now because Monday is just around the corner and last Monday is gone forever.