Aren't we lucky!?! Living when we do.

[Bara]

I mean that we can make true and lasting friendships all across the globe. We're from all walks of life, professions, age groups; and yet we can 'talk' to each other about deepest, darkest fears, etc. - and just gossip, too, when perhaps, we wouldn't talk to our nearest and dearest.

I'm not being very British and 'stiff upper lip', but too bad!

Remember when fax machines were the ultimate in high tech? ('How did it DO that??') Actually, I remember our first phone being installed, our first TV (B/W!) We got our first colour TV in Canada to watch the moon-landing ... which was mainly black and white!

How things have changed - so quickly - over our lifetimes.

OK Philosophy over. Thank you, Internet.

[adcooper]

So true!

[Deb]

I feel blessed to have some long standing friendships. I love each and everyone.

[Big Tee©]

There are two women that I have been chatting with for at leat 15 years now - we met on the old Victory Lane chat, which also re-united me with a dear friend of mine; too bad he and I had so little time before he passed.

But the technological changes are incredible. We 'akways' had a phone, because there was a local phone company. Said phone was a huge wooden box with a crank and a receiver...high tech compared to what my one grandmother had - hers was a huge wooden box with an ear piece on a cord and a mouthpiece attached to the wooden box. We had to turn a crank to central to make a phone call and ONLY between 7AM and 10PM except for emergencies. We didn't have even dial phones until the 70s.

Some people in the district didn't even have power until 1967. Kerosene lamps provided the light and some had propane for cooking and heating and others used wood and coal. First colour TV in the district was in 64, and we got one in 68.

I remember my first encounter with a fax machine - was scared stupid of it. STill don't trust them!!!LOL

[Bara]

I met Deb, CatB and, I think Suzy, on the old Horse Forum. I was looking for info on Navicular, but here Edgie is, nearly 20 years later, still going strong! He has a good farrier and wears high heels.

Edgie. Not the farrier.

[jbrooks]

We have been friends for a long time.  I like the fact that we share more then just horsie stuff.

[Bara]

Stories! We tell stories around the hearth, just like any village community. How did you and Brian find ER, Brooks? CatB brought me; I brought Deb. I still wonder about the guy who ran the Horse Forum.

I think his name was Carlo and I think he had a place in one of the Carolinas. There was another Debbie, Deb, do you remember? She took part in jousting. Yes, she did.

[ZenRider]

Yes and no. The cameras and such everywhere is getting too Big Brother for me.