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Wow, terrific pictures, everyone!!

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I'm bumping up Deputy Mo's old thread in his honor.... ok let's see some more now you guys!

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Scott, that's very cool. :D
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Hey Sue, I actually have a skirt in a fabric that reminds me of your dress fabric- and it's called the "Pinky Highball Go-go skirt" ...!! 

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Dana R. McCall said:

1975 Was a good year Rod.

Too cute, Dana!

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This is me around age 4, dressed up as a princess for Halloween. I have my mother's lace slip draped over my head as a 'royal train', and she drew my eylashes on with eyebrow pencil. =8-)

updated by @strumelia: 06/16/15 05:12:55PM

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Here's one from my teenage hippy days... (I'm the blond one) I think it was around 1967 and I must have been 13 or 14.I remember buying that oversized ratty old fur coat at the Salvation army for like $3. Right away my friend Susan got one too. LOL!

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Ken, I gotta say, i always like it when you say "my Lady Sally". Sounds like you surely must be her knight in shining armor!

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Geekling said:

Well said, JH! And I would also say, congratulations to all the other 4999 members for putting the friend in Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer !

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...and CONGRATULATIONS to Hallie for being FOTMD's 5000th member !!!!

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Only two members to go to hit 5000....

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I'm sure that whether Rod is an actual angel looking down, or simply a memory in our hearts, either way he is right here with us and beaming happily.

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I'm having my hair done specially, by 'Mr.Vincent'...

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Patty from Virginia said:

Is there going to be a special event when 5,000 members are reached?

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+1 !

Robin Thompson said:

John,
I'd rather have one of your builds to play at the party than an original Thomas! One of your sweet Virginia beauties. . .

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Thank you all for the very sweet comments of appreciation. It's quite nice.

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Benjamin, I like that you took it off the wall and played it. I bet he was impressed!

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Rob, it only melts if you leave it out in the rain.

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Thanks Robin! I'm calling my new original aspic recipe "MacArthur Park Mold". lololol....

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I'm perfecting a brand new aspic recipe for the 5000 member party... mmmmm....

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John Henry, yes I assume your 'mountain dew' guard status is secure- I think it's a lifetime assignment. Just don't fall off your bicycle:

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Wow, I can't really believe the average is 10 mtn dulcimers per member. It's probably just the most verbose members who have tons of dulcimers. Quiet modest folk like me have only one or two.

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John Henry said:

Contra Dance! I,d love to only Rod has already said that whatever, I,m detailed to sit and guard the Dew , needed someone he could trust,you see.................knew that I would'nt touch it.

Now wait a minute!..... so where is Rod gonna be while you are stuck 'guarding the dew'?(and hey you don't have worry about ME trying to steal any of that stuff, for sure!) LOL! =:-S

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How about if instead of a snowshoe, we do a contra dance? Heck, we have plenty of musicians. We gotta work off a few of these calories somehow !

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I'm brushing up on my dance moves...

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I think if there's snow, we should all go snowshoeing after lunch!John Henry- can you get hold of some good Stilton?....I can make a mean crusty bread!:

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Bill Lewis said:

This is the most fun you can ever have Robin. I've got some chips and salsa, Jim's got Cookies, i think Lisa's got Chips and salsa too. :)

Bill, I think I'm going to bring a nice healthy spinach salad with my own kitchen-grown sprouts, with feta cheese and calamata olives and a shitake dressing. But I'll keep some 'emergency' extra salsa and chips in my car just in case a whole gang of hungry new members come busting in the door unexpectedly and want to eat up all the good stuff.You bring the salsa and chips for the rest of us and we won't crack into the emergency supplies in my trunk unless we need to. :D

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Rod I remember back in the first month or so you and I were speculating about how many members FOTMD might have eventually...and we both thought it might top off at around 500. But people seem to be joining faster and faster now, the opposite of slowing down, so I don't think people are suddenly going to stop joining after next week or so....unless we run out of chips and salsa! =8-oI remember when we had around 10 members and i felt I needed to start some thread discussions just so that there'd be 'something' going on. I thought maybe people were looking around saying like "ok, so now what?". LOL! Well, the groove is on now.

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It was only two weeks ago that we reached 400 on December 28th........What the heck?!?.... All these parties are going to kill me! LOLMaybe we should make just one long never-ending party.Oh wait, we already do that. ??!!

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Ok, just had to bump this old thread up...brings back some smiles from five years ago...

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Rod Westerfield said:

just glad ta be here when needed...

And you are much needed indeed! :D...(especially since the sheriff has a habit of snoozing while the criminals rant rampant. LOL )

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Jim Fawcett said:

Randy was saying to me that we should think about giving him more bullets, but I said why? If you're good like "The Deputy" you only need one shot!!! Atta boy Deputy Mo!!

He gets extra bullets whenever I have to go over to Mt. Pilot for a day or two, leaving Mayberry's wellbeing completely in his capable hands. But best not to shower him with live ammunition lest he start gettin' all full of himself. ;D

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Well there I was, lolling about lazily this morning in bed with my coffee and furkitties.... blithely oblivious to the DESPERATE PANDEMONIUM going on here due to unsavory messages from an evil spammer!Thankfully, in contrast to myself, there are *some* people around here who get up in a timely manner and are ever on the alert, ready to save our members from the perils of immoral internet debauchery. That person is 'Deputy Mo' (member Rod Westerfield).Despite Deputy Mo's limitation of having only one bullet, and the spammer this time signing on with TWO accounts..... did Deputy M. let that stop him? ...No! -He demonstrated Extraordinary Crimefighting Skills by dispatching both evil accounts with a single bullet!!! =8-oYay Deputy Mo!
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Flint Hill said:

Lisa, I'd love to see how one of your straps works. Can't quite envision it from the description, and it's neat to hear of a way to do this without putting a strap peg on the instrument.

Ken, I was thinking of makming a fun little YouTube video showing how I make my 'button straps' for my dulcimers. I think I'll do that next! ...and next thing you know there will be button straps on dulcimers everywhere ! ;D

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My favorite dulcimer accessories is the dulcimer 'straps' I make for each of my dulcimers out of braided ribbon or yarn and a big old button so I can 'button' myself in with one of the loops of the other end. They are pretty, and different. Plus I don't have to have strap pegs put on my dulcimers.

Sounds like you will be able to make the switch fairly easily- if you can do it already, even if awkwardly. Yay! This will make everything a whole lot easier especially if you buy other instruments in the future (and if you sell any too). Keep at it! the fact that you were able to use scissors right handed was a good indicator.