Hi Joe! Yes, I very much enjoyed my visit to your house! I also found you to be a very interesting fellow with some excellent skill sets, and an outstanding artist as well... Alas, lifes battles, health issues and just plain old age have kept us grounded, making any type of return trip hard to plan or execute!!
As for forum traffic, I too have noticed the slower pace, but I think you touched on the root of the problem with the older members passing on, and the younger members are quite young, and also very few? There is little to no middle age group with the same interests we find so dear on the forum. Alas, those that do have an interest are generally squeezed out by the shear cost, coupled with buying mistakes and miss-represented items! It's not too hard to see the hobby slowly disappearing!
I have said many times on this fourm, it is like family to me! Which ever way it goes, I'll be here until the end, probably mine... Best to all, til.....lat'r....GT....
