Happy New Year to All....

[Adam Helmer]

There are only a few days left in 2005. I hope to see all you good posters back here in 2006. I have learned much, and chatted perhaps too much, but that is the way of it.

We have had a few new posters come aboard and the old timers have kept things interesting. I have lost a dear buddy, my Golden, Webley at age 10, in October and have a new Yellow Lab, Lori, to be the designated Farm Dawg.

I am on the wrong side of age 60 and these years keep going by faster and faster. I think I need to post a question in the near future to ask the ages of posters here. I just read where the PA hunter is in the early 50s, which keeps rising, perhaps due to the fact we are getting fewer younger folks into the hunting arena.

We need to keep introducing new Longhunters into the fold. I have helped 6 new ML folk in 2005 and hope for more in 2006.

Happy New Year and be back in 2006.

Adam