Glad you're here. Opinions are like....You get it.

If you don't like what you read on here, just scroll on past like I do...lol. Most people don't behave in person like they do online. This is a great place for fiddle and violin! So, keep on sharing, keep on caring! Glad I found your YouTube channel. You're the real deal. Playing the violin is a super power many of us share at different levels. Stay warm.

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Still don't understand what started this "tempest in a teapot" but glad to hear you still hanging around Peggy.

I guess I missed the critical posts aimed at you. I don't always read everything. I'm surprised by it because I always considered you and interesting and benign character here. I hope you'll stay.

I'm glad you decided to hang around Peggy. You're one of the old timers here (as in you've been here a long time) and your posts are always interesting and your music fun to listen to.

Like you say - Springtime's a coming! Keep picking and sawing (or patterning or every which-waying).

I continue to love your posts! Keep posting!

Hi Peggy,
Glad you are back!
Please post more music as you have time; it's always enjoyable.

Add me to the list of those who didn't see whatever it was that caused the trouble, and I can't imagine anyone making such an accusation of YOU, of all people. It's all a little perplexing. But please keep on doing what you do. I'm a great fan of your music, and always enjoy your posts and commentaries.

Hope you will find some time to play music and keep sharing it with us!

I certainly disagree that you (or your music) could have been in any way offputting!
take care.

Thank you so much, every one of you...I appreciate any words of encouragement. I won't repeat what happened or how the issue came about, because there's just no sense in starting up something...lol...not productive at all. So, if you missed it, lucky for you! Otherwise I hope we can all feel like we have friends here who love to play, share, argue a little, and tell our tales.

I like it here. I like the people, I like the ideas and discussions, I even like the occasional weirdness. It’s all good. Cheers to all.

Glad you are back!

I took a hiatus for a couple years to do some extensive tent camping around the country and Canada and some deep reflection on the next phase of my life. One of the results was that we moved from our 1890 Victorian cottage that we restored over 38 years in a semi-rural community near Dallas to a 1962 Mid-century modern in east Dallas. It was an incredibly difficult move! - physically and emotionally. But, it was a necessary move to get us closer to services, Church and friends. During this time, I severely limited my on-line activities to things that were important to me and that were productive. I break was great!

What has worked for me on social media, including FHO, has been to not give advice, speak only from personal experience, don't post or engage with anything controversial, such as politics or religion. As frustrated and irritated I get from reading posts from people I once respected, I just scroll by. I will not change their mind in a on-line argument. Beside, they have the upper hand.

I have found that a large portion of the offensive social media posts are AI generated slop meant to get you to respond. The more clicks that a post gets, the more money the person or group that posted gets. That bothers me!

I have enjoyed being a part of the FHO community from its inception. That how I was able to get my great alias! I have learned much about music and music theory from people who know way more than I do, and I have also met a few of the FHO members in person. They have all surprised me in bursting my mental image of them and they have all been great folks!

It's all good. I pick and choose the thread I want to follow and ignore the rest - unless something looks interesting.

I know, you literally have the best alias here! Welcome back.

Kirk, that sounds like great advice.

Oh, and glad to see you back. Your posts were always fun to read...lookin' forward to more.

No Groundhogpeggy, no Hangout...
I certainly have no problem with you.
My pet peeve is people who comment on a topic but Never actually respond to the topic's ..topic..
I've been staying away lately...but am ALWAYS heartened to read Peggy's comments..

Thanks, Lee. I have to say I love reading your posts and how they usually light up some sort of spark in me...lol. It's just fun to see people hanging out at the hangout who obviously love to play and love to talk with each other. I appreciate your presence here.

As I've said before, I'm drowning in the increasingly difficult care of my hubby. It's tough, feels too tough for me, but I know it's even tougher for him. Our lives have been totally consumed by the disease, which is so hated and dreaded by me I cannnot say the word. Anyway, it's hard for me to get on here and even try to get through one sentence without all kinds of interruptions happening...let alone play my instruments, let alone even record anything as I love(d) to do. So...yeah, if I do make it onto the site, that alone is a minor miracle for my day. A slight break in the total isolation and minute by minute difficulty. I appreciate when there is interesting and fun conversation and sharing here.

Peggy, just soze you know.. I recently got an email from a Hangout member who has opted out of Hangout participation... because of an "Expert" here on the Hangout... It wasn't you who was the expert...

Yeah I'm innocent...I am definitely NOT an expert...lol...at anything. Thanks goodness that alone lets me off the hook.  Seriously though, I'm sorry the person felt like they had to leave.  Because that sort of thing is a flatout shame.

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Originally posted by Old Scratch

Add me to the list of those who didn't see whatever it was that caused the trouble, and I can't imagine anyone making such an accusation of YOU, of all people. It's all a little perplexing. But please keep on doing what you do. I'm a great fan of your music, and always enjoy your posts and commentaries.

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Same.

Sharing ideas and opinions is good -- that’s what this place should be.

I spose there are bossy people everywhere, but I haven’t seen much of that here.

And if you don’t like something that you read here, move on, forget it. Stay happy, play music.

I agree. I also think sharing ideas means telling the person that you disagree with that you do disagree...explain your opinion, keep up the conversation and be polite and friendly about it. We aren't cookie-cut robots, not yet anyway. We have a right to opinions and we all learn when we discuss our opinions with others. But walking away without explanation and then the "culprit" hearing it through the grapevine is not the way to communicate. Anyway, I'm gettin' to where I'm starting to think the human race has lost touch with communication and we're slipping back into rocks and stones tribalism for no reason other than..."You are not like me." It just looks that way to me here and all over the world by now. So...yes, seems we are devolving...and I'm not seeing much hope at this point for anything. I miss the days of sitting in a crowded student center coffee house, listening to live folk music on dulcimer and recorders, and arguing with friends over philosophical concepts...now it's different...you tippy toe around and never know who wants to hurt whom...just pretend and lie and then go for the kill. Sorry to be so dismal...my own perspective is what I speak from now.

Yeh Peggy, lots of craziness out there, lots of folks acting grumpy. It’s hard for me to figure out what’s so enjoyable about grumping at other people, but some folks sure do seem to love it.

But they gotta do that all by themselves -- I’m gone.

Meanwhile, my fiddle and my mando never get grumpy. Sometimes they get a little sleepy and don’t perform real well, but if I treat ‘em right they brighten right up and make music.

It would be nice if those deranged grumpy people could do the same...

If I'm ever as rich as Dolly Parton I'll donate millions of fiddles and banjos to everybody on the planet.

As one who does know what Peggy is talking about I'll just say this:
Peggy, you are never one to turn a person away. You post tunes, songs, interesting musings... everything that the hangout is here for. There's never a discouraging word directed at your fellow fiddlers. I enjoy your perspective and presence hear so much that I'm posting. Please don't let one (or two) poorly thought out post chase you off.

Folks who missed it might not read everything that is posted, if they did, they'd see both the post we are referencing and my comment on said post in the same thread.

Thanks, I truly appreciate that, Billy.