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Thomas B. Thompson:
Stu,
  Thanks for the well wishes on the knee. Everything seems to be doing all right.
Having a little trouble going up and down steps ( still hurts somewhat ) but with some more time, it will be okay.
  I have a job interview in Cincinnati, Ohio which is about 72 miles from me and I am spending time reviewing my building code books.
With better weather coming in the rest of the week what is left of the snow should be gone.
Hopefully it will be the LAST snow.

Donna,
  Send some of your early summer to Indiana. Just recently we woke up to a -24 degree morning.

Best Wishes to all,

Tom & Barbara

Mary:
And we're FREE!  After the first bout of ice, we were stranded up here for 12 days. We finally took picks and shovels and chopped a 2 track lane for Tom to get down to the main road so he could get to a doctor's appointment. About 5 days later, we had ANOTHER ice storm and were in for 3 more days!
I don't mind snow, but this ice has been so devastating to the region and we had people without power for 10 days and longer .....and temps were well below zero and only in the low teens in the daytime. Luckily, people who had power managed to get their generators to churches and town halls so there was enough energy to run personal medical equipment, lights, heat and microwaves for hot food. Quite a time. We were lucky that we didn't lose power because we don't have a generator and no one could have gotten to us.

Anxious now for spring - by the way, our first daffodils are blooming!

Glad to know you all are well.

Also, wondering if it's time to just lock this forum and give up trying to get people to post......? We have a Facebook page - maybe we should put our efforts into it? It seems more in line with the 'young and hip' among us...............

Stirling Thompson:
Mary, happy to hear you're all OK. I've always said I'd rather have a foot of snow than a quarter inch of ice. Luckily we don't get the ice storms too often, we had one a couple years ago that was really devastating to parts of New England.

As for shutting down the forum I'm personally opposed to that idea. Facebook and/or Twitter are fine for some things but I don't believe they can handle prolonged serious discussions or topics such as we have at times here on the forum. Or maybe I'm just old and tech resistant. I check the forum at least daily, facebook maybe a few times a week but hardly ever beyond my own homepage.

cheryllwith2ls:
C'mon Daffodils! Mary, you and Tom need a generator! Seems like that would be a must living out there. I'm glad everyone seems to be thawing out.

I am TOTALLY with Stu. We need this forum! I too check it daily and read things you guys have posted, all the time! Heck, I even check it twice daily if truth be known.
Facebook is great but it could never take the place of all the information on here! I think people are on here reading to learn about the Thompsons and the Reivers and Scotland and run out of time to post! :)
ORRR.... maybe they don't feel comfortable or knowledgeable enough to say anything.

Hey, that just gave me an idea......Why don't we have like a "game" on here...? Some sort of interactive game of trivia or something. Find the members that are actively on here and say.... weekly... we have 3 people that are called out to answer 1 question each for the week. That way we could all participate and you wouldn't have the same people answering all the time. Maybe we could email them their question or something. Does that sound stupid?? LOL :)  I don't know....... it might be fun!

Oh and thanks for putting our games on here!
Cheryll

Thomas B. Thompson:
I'm in agreement with Stu and Cheryll.
I also look at the forum often and appreciate the things posted.
I've posted or replied more this year then I have in the past, but I'm a slow poke.

Perhaps when new members sign up, they could post a little about their Scottish heritage
and how they were drawn to the clan and how they might like to see the clan to develop in the future.

Anyways, for those who post more often than I do---THANK YOU for you posts.
As for the rest of the members---- at least say hi----we are family and families do keep in
touch.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the games I can attend.

Best Wishes,

Tom and Barbara

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