End-of-the-Year Holiday Greetings

[Opsa]

Dear Siblings,

I am very grateful to have you in my life, and especially grateful to MB for creating this site, to Aggie who so generously hosted it and to Griffin who maintains it faithfully.

I look forward to visiting you here, and appreciate all the unique kinds of wonderful each of you represents. Thank you for being here, just as you are.

We're of no particular religion here, so I'll try to stay away from any denominational greeting. I'll just say that as this year closes, I am glad to have you, my Toadfish siblings. So whenever you celebrate whatever you choose, please remember that somewhere out there I am celebrating you, as among the nicest things that ever happened to me.

A toast- to all Toadfish everywhere!

[Aggie]

Ta! It feels like summer, not the end of the year, but I'll be back to snow by the close.  

p.s. I can't believe we are 8! That makes it close to a decade since I've known at least some of you wonderful taddies, before we were taddies.

[Griffin NoName]

I joined TOP in Sep 2005, as did you I seem to remember Aggie.

Happy Festive Season 2013 everybody.

[Aggie]

Aye, but how long were we on the general FSM forums before that??

[Griffin NoName]

I meant the FSM forum............. I thought that was TOP...........

[Aggie]

Ayuh, that sounds about right (my mistake, confusing TOP with HOT... see "What are you drinking?" thread) but I also thought we were at TOP for a while before joining HOT. 

[Opsa]

HOT was at TOP before we got a place of our own, too.

Just to confuse things further!

(I'll have what Aggie's having!)

[pieces o nine]

I can't say anything that hasn't been said already; I'll add my year-end, year-beginning greetings as well.

The Monastery is a fine place and I'm glad I was invited here.

[Griffin NoName]

We were at TOP a while before joining HOT, so presumably HOT did not exist as early as Sep 05.

[Swatopluk]

This place really incited/kindled my creativity (see the arts thread) and has been some kind of a lifeline too.
I just hope it will last.

[Griffin NoName]

I hope it will last too. It's a lifeline for me as well.

[Opsa]

Thanks to Aggie, and to everyone's thoughtful contributions, we're still holding firm.

For some reason I was thinking of the story of The Little Prince and how he would think about his rose and his sheep so far away on his little planet. Sometimes it feels like that for me. I think about my sibs far away whom I haven't met, and hope they are okay.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

..or the shape of the serpent after eating an elephant...?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

A Toast, I say... a Toast!

And no, not a heat-cured piece of dry bread.  But a real, hoist the glass-of-something-something high overhead, in recognition of a single moment in time, halted briefly for introspection of times that have slipped into the past.

Here in the virtual world of HOT, a virtual hoisting of the glass seems most apropos.

And?

Now that I think on it some more?  A nice crusty slice of heat-cured dry bread seems to fit as well.

Cheers!

[Opsa]

Chink-chink from the Washington DC area!