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We are coming up on New York City. I hate NYC. After that, we’re home free. Hartford can be a PITA, but a minor one.

John has an account here, although he hasn't posted yet.

He rolled over on his back while sitting with me in the garden once this summer. When I reached to pet him on the stomach, he slapped me, but with claws retracted. Rolling on his back was his way of saying that he trusted me. Slapping me was his way of of saying, "but not that much."

I grew up in the UP of Michigan, where there was a history of Cornish settlers who came to work in the copper mines, bringing what has now become an Upper Peninsula tradition of pasties. My family came from Sweden, though.

I'm still feeding the gray (blue) stray cat that I've been feeding for years. I'd love to take him in but I couldn't do that to Ella. Because I know I can't take him in, I haven't tried to make him a pet but he does let me touch him on the nose or the top of his head, and he sits near me while I...

The U.S. had to declare their independence from England in order to make sense of the language.

If you like, you can also use a middle name or initial, as well, but that's optional.

We will be asking members to use a first and last name as a member name here. As before, it doesn't have to be your real name, as long as it looks like a real name. In other words, "Red Rover" or "Space Commander" would not be acceptable. If you registered using a handle or only one name, please...

I'm from Maine, so we're surrounded by Canada on three sides.

I would like to add a few more categories and forums soon, so that the board doesn't look so undone. Which should we start with?

Are you guys okay with the default board style. There are themes available that would change the looks and some of the operations, but that's just one more thing to keep updated, so I was thinking of just switching the XenForo log out for our own and leaving it as it is. Once we've fleshed the...

I think I toggled off the default of sending emails every time someone posts a message because I know that I don't like getting dozens of emails every day about messages that I have already read anyhow, and thought that might be the prevailing mood. So if you do want to get emails about this...

Yeah, I haven't figured out how to present that message on this version yet, although I haven't spent a lot of time looking for it yet. I just spent a few hours trying to replace the XenForo logo with the text-based version of the forum name we used in the last forum. They changed the way that...

I forgot that I had included "Introductions" as simply a thread in "Chit-Chat" since it probably didn't need to be a forum of its own. The check-in area could also be a thread, couldn't it? I'm just trying to reduce the number of forums we have here.

Are you happy with the emojis/smilies? I never could figure out how to add them to the old forum but an extended collection came with the new version.

Can I make it a sub-forum of the Introductions forum?

I am using a type of CAPTCHA that works invisibly, for the most part, detecting human-like behavior. If it determines that the behavior might be suspect, there might be a challenge such as you have probably come across on other sites, asking you to verify that you are human. I don't think it...

There is much to be said for that. Other people like it, though, so I don't know. I would also need to look and see what controls I have over that, since it's a default.

My wife got the needle-in-the-eye several times. I cringe at the thought.

@Beth Gallagher, I pray they'll be able to correct the eye problem, or it corrects itself, whichever comes first. Like probably many of you, my eyes aren't as good as they used to be (and I've worn glasses since about age 10), but at least they are degrading symmetrically, and I can still see...