ROLL CALL -- Optional -- Love to hear from you! :) (2,206 views)

I'm trying to remember when I joined CL but memory fails. I may take a trip down memory lane and find out before the board closes. Anyway, I'm not a frequent poster but do read fairly often. Thanks for this great board.

BarbaraL; joined the CL BB in June 2000.  Happy to be here!

I was shocked to hear the CLBB was going away.  The notice had been in my spam folder.  I'd been on CLBB since 2005

I was BucknellAlum on the old boards but I hated that screen name so here I am as DecafPlease!  I live outside Philly.  One of my best CLBB was arranging a meet up of some local folks a few years ago in my area.  Lately I'd been more of a lurker than poster, but I have a lot of memories of CL people and recipes!SaveSave

I was just clipping the remainder of old threads I wanted to save/reread and ran across one called "Our Oldest Member" in which I was trying to ascertain who'd been around the longest.  Best we could figure at the time (it was then 2002), the boards had been created around 1998.  Sounds like you may have taken the prize!

Oh, but I'm being rude, not introducing myself (or reintroducing myself to those of you who may remember me).  I'm Gail.  I'm 63 and live in Southern California, a bit south of LAX.  Best I can figure out (with the format changes and all) is that I joined CL's BB around March or April of 2000, slightly before they switched software in June, 2000. 

Hi I'm Valerie. 68  live in Washington state  north of seattle. a member since the 90's but forgot exactly since it's been so long. I got ticked off at the last CL magazine format change and hung around less. gave up on the magazine. maybe someday I will figure out how to do an avatar.   married, no kids, outdoors person..........  and  cat servant.  

I just saw that - boohoo.  I noticed that Southern Living is still up.  While I'm sure they're going to kill that board too, why kill CL's first since it was at least active. Anyways.....


I'm mcgee, same as on CLBB.  I became an official member in 2003 but had been a lurker long before that.  I think I had sweaty palms the first time I posted something because I was sooo nervous. I'm thankful for this new board and all the hard work Bev and Catbatty have done in such a short amount of time to make it a reality.  

I'm here as cafelatte as I was on the other board.  I can't remember exactly, but I joined around 2002 but wasn't always posting a lot.   I live in the Indy area now, having moved here a year ago with my DH.  I have two boys, one a senior in college and another who graduated a few years ago.  Looking forward to no more tuition/college costs - it's been 8 years!!  

I used to be SandyM on the old boards - I thought I joined in 2000, but that's when Gail joined, and I'm certain I was after that. I've met many CLBB members IRL who have become life-long friends, and some on here that I have not (yet) met but still would like to some day.

I'm 53, originally from the Buffalo area but I've lived in Michigan for 32 years GO BLUE!) I'm married for the 2nd time to the best guy on the planet. No children by choice, but his adult daughter has given me grandchildren, and they are the BEST.

While I took a long hiatus from the old CLBB, I remember several threads fondly, and I'm sad I didn't save some of the more memorable ones - too many to mention.

Thanks to the admins for setting this up.

I hope so, too. Talk about ripple effect--he helped me whip my Thanksgiving turkeys into shape, so now all of my kids will have my copious notes for that daunting first T'g turkey someday, plus when I was searching my old CLBB posts, I came across one where I had gone to someone's house (I didn't even remember that) to help her with her T'g turkey. I am still so grateful for Hammster's help after all these years.

Congratulations on the birth of your daughter.

I have enjoyed reading everyone's intros. It has been great to see some older (CLBB tenure old, not old old;)) folks too.

oceanjasper, congratulations! 

I am Natasha here, on the old boards, and in real life My husband and I live in Canada and have a young son and an older dog. We love to cook and stay active (running, biking, etc) though with my son some days exercise is more about running to keep up with him, or playing soccer with him, than it is about a more conventional "workout" It's all fun though.

On the cooking and baking front, I also haven't spent as much time in the kitchen lately as before, but hoping to do more in the fall and winter.

Beth here. Finally made it over. I thought about changing my name since I never really thought about it way back when. I think I most likely joined in 1999, possibly early 2000. We moved in Nov '98 and I beleive it was after that but long enough before the CLBB reformatted and everything was lost in 2000 that I was thinking "OMG!" Little did I know how much more would be lost 16 years later. IIRC, they gave us more notice then than they did this time. There was less to grab and we had at least twice as long to do it -- and they talked to us about it. Sigh

Melman, I wonder if they did an archive for their own purposes. I also dont' understand why they would keep SL up for so long with essentially no activity and take down CL -- unless it was beccause of the renewed activity and they just wanted it gone. I think it had more to do with effort and liability in keeping it running. They went through many periods of spam and hacking. I think it is less likely that any copyrighted materials posted were at issue (folks were pretty good about giving credit and recipes are such a difficult area to begin with - blogs and even Amazon (copied books with changed recpes that don't work) would be much bigger concerns. More likley that the BB was an vulnerable spot in their data network and put other Time data at risk. DH questions whether they were already hacked.

I think you all know I am the mom of two college men, both studying music. One has become a bartender and foodie too - the other one is finally getting past french fries and corn as the limits of his vegetable world. My nest is nearly empty and DH is nearly retired. He went to half time last fall and as planning on retiring next spring. He just returned from a meeting in which an arbitration was scheduled for next September, meaning he will need to spend about 3 weeks in Paris. I think retirement may be pushed off a year, but at half-time, that's manageable.

I'm in the greater Houston area, though outside the city. I have 2 large dogs (lab mix and border collie/retriever mix), miss having cats (used to have two and two before them) and have been tending Monarchs more than my garden lately (we built an enclosurwe to protect them from predators and released about 30 butterflies this week. I don't cook as much as I used to, thought DH and I joined a CSA, so my limits keep getting stretched. We both cook and can, I bake. In fact, I just volunteered to bake a wedding cake for a young girl and may have gotten myself in over my head (the family is doing a 3 girl birthday party in December and they have a very specific cake in mind. Not sure about that one.

Swedishcook, I used to live in a older part of Dallas. My house there was built in 1927. I love those older neighborhoods.

Good to see so many familiar faces here.

Hi Beth, southwest Houston here.  So glad you are doing the Monarch thing; I have a very dear friend who is doing it and has lots of eggs/caterpillars to share and I can be a mid-point meet-up site. 

Thanks, Beth!