What can I say?
Thank you all for your good wishes and your thoughts. It is so nice to see all of you here on one of my milestone birthdays. I guess it is a milestone, haha, 40th anniversary of my 40th birthday. Each decade seems like a milestone, but this one really does. Next one, 90, really is up there.
Thank you,
@Nora03, for starting this thread for me, and thank you,
@PollyannaMom, for starting the one on the Birthday forum.
Natalie took Marie and me out for a very nice lunch/dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants. Marie's birthday is a few days before mine, July 17th. We spent about 2 hours jabbering after dinner, very nice.
I came by this little place on the Net when I was 55 years old. Seems like a lifetime ago, not only 25+ years ago. It's grown into me over the years, I have grown into it. I stayed because of the people here, you all. The community is more abbreviated than in the past, but still a place I enjoy stopping by at least once a day, generally more often.

. And over the past year it has become more friendly and welcoming to its members, us.
Thank you again, all of you. Thank you for sharing in my birthday.