First of all, Sundance is taking a break. He had some business matters to handle. This blog started on February 1, 2011, and in all that time, except for when he was on his trip to meet with some contacts, and helping out after disasters, I remember Sundance taking off a few days only one time. He went on a fishing trip and left the gals in charge. We managed not to set the Treehouse on fire, and even resisted ordering new furniture and hanging pictures.
And so, here we are, still in the same Tree.
Like most people, in November I start thinking more about things and people I am grateful for. I don’t want to do a smushy, typical post about that. Not to discount the need for, and value of, stopping to reflect on God’s many blessings in our lives.
I like stories. Indeed, I almost find them irresistible. It occurred to me several days ago, when I posted a recipe over at Stella’s Place, that I often don’t even share a recipe without a story.
I would like to hear yours today, and I think others here would too.
That is a weird, vague, and broad introduction to an idea, huh? Allow me to dial it in a bit. I started following Sundance, Ad rem, and Stella on another blog they used to run. Every day I looked forward to the posts, the comments, the ideas, and the sheer fun.
When that blog shut down, I found Stella over at Lucianne. She was looking for refugees like me, and eventually we all hooked up again. Sundance started this blog, and invited me to join the crew and become an admin.
Even though we started here in February, I always think about the beginnings, and Sundance, Ad rem, Stella, Wee, and Sharon, in November. I found them at the other place then, and the day before Thanksgiving, when I should have been cooking and cleaning, I couldn’t stop reading that blog.
Along this trip through the woods, we have become friends, the best of friends, in my book. I have found people who share my faith, my hope, my joys, and sometimes my sadness. They share foundational beliefs on right and wrong, justice, politics, and a host of other things important to me.
We have shared tons of laughs, as well as more serious discussions, advice, ideas, and, well, just life. We have been so privileged to “meet” some unique and wonderful characters along the way, including you guys.
This site, and the people here, are one of the most important things in my life, and one that I deeply value and appreciate.
You make me think, you challenge me, you deepen my understanding, occasionally you even change my mind. You pray with me and for me, celebrate with me, and laugh with me.
When my grandson Conner was a baby, you old timers were there with me as we prayed, waited, and hoped, while he had open heart surgery at Vanderbilt. You have checked in on him over the years, and shared in his stories and milestones. Probably my best loved story by Treepers was The Christmas Pumpkin, a story about Conner.
Behind the scenes, Sundance,Wee, Stella, and Ad rem have been even more supportive to me during those trials and tribulations, joys and hopes. Their support and encouragement really helped me make the leap of faith and decide to homeschool Conner (if you missed those conversations, he’s autistic and really needs extra help) when he needed it. Ad rem, the teacher, found words to help me see the potential through all my doubts and fears.
So, that’s one story about something and someplace and some people I am so very grateful for. I look forward to yours.
P.S. That’s Wee in the cowboy hat. These days she has blinged it up with tinfoil. I’m hiding in the back. I actually did have waist length dark hair at that age.
Here’s a link to a post Sundance made on the first day. Copying it from our old WordPress site to this new one resulted in some formatting issues and loss of his pictures, but you’ll enjoy his post.
Here’s another link Stella just posted in her comment. If you want the whole backstory, this is it.
Blessings and thank you. Much relief from this loyal Treeper.
I hope Sundance is well.
Have been concerned about the recent pause in posts.
God Bless
Glad to know everything is ok. Treehouse is part of my life. I’m so well informed thanks to the crew here. This place is a rock, a solid foundation during a dark time in our countries history
I could tell Sundance was off
Yes, blessings to Sundance and you all. Thank you so much for the update.
Menagerie, I’m very glad to hear that Sundance is taking some time off. I hope that his business will be minimal and that he has refreshment time with our Lord and his family. I once ran a Facebook page when I was a member of a town board. I recorded our meetings, came home, uploaded the audios, wrote up a summaries of the meetings and attached various documents provided to me as a board member so that the people in my town were privy to the same information I was privy to as a board member. It became almost a full time job. And what I did was MINIMAL compared to what Sundance does, so I’m thankful that he is taking a break, even though I miss his posts. My husband and I pray for Sundance, his family and the crew at the Treehouse. May God richly bless all of you. May He protect all of you. May peace and joy, health and wealth be in abundance for all of you. Much love to all of you.
Couldn’t have said it any better CTmom so I second your sentiment.
Thank you Menagerie..
God bless you ALL.
I have just a one word story.
Love 💘
God Bless you Menagerie and Sundance Treehouse
immediate core family ! You are ALWAYS an inspiration
and you are appreciated and making a difference in my life
and so many lives and in the Worlkd of Good Woll,
Gratitude and informed intelligent perspective,
Always mindful that this is the day God has given us, every day,
for us to make the BEST of. I am writing before I can
read this in every detail. The background info about the formation
of The Treehouse is fascinating and inspiring, Thank you
so much and Blessings to you all, and of course Sundance,
and to President Trump and vast MAGA family.
“This site, and the people here, are one of the most important things in my life, and one that I deeply value and appreciate.”
Thank you very much for taking away the worries that we’re growing in my mind.
I hope everyone at the TreeHouse gets a well deserved maybe overdue break.
Thank you for the posting of Sundance’s first post. ♥️
Much love to all of you.
With gratitude.
It’s not the first, but it is from the first day.
Thank you.
oh good, thanks, thought I was a bit bonkers, my story is too much so cliff notes:
married (too young) divorced one child
married and widowed 3 years later two children, early 20’s
went back to school, graduated in art
struggled
more life
another child
never remarried
struggled with his father
autistic but genius IQ, the son
still with his dad in the great state of Montana
still making art still struggling
Thank you for actually sharing a story! I’m sure there are more amazing and fascinating things behind that wonderful summation!
Thank you for sharing. The pressures in life are what creates diamonds.
Thanks for sharing this. Though relatively new here, I find myself wondering how this site started, and how I did not find this site sooner than I did.
If you have time, SC, go back to Sundance’s Trayvon Martin posts. Treehouse debunked virtually every piece of nonsense posted by news sites. It was epic journalism.
That’s when I started reading here. Every day, off and on all day. I strive to never miss one of Sundance’s posts and I always scan all the comments. When the comments reach over 1,000, it becomes difficult but I persevere until midnight at least.
I’m afraid I might miss something significant if I don’t read them all. Can we call this CTH education a degree in political science?
Dixie, I certainly do!
I have taken the admonition of “seek to understand before asking to be understood” to heart in all things. It means I spend a lot of time clicking thumb ups and reading. This is a place like no other..
If you are interested, here is a post that I did on the Tree’s first birthday. It explains how we all got together.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2012/02/01/happy-first-birthday-the-last-refuge/
Loved reading your First Birthday post!
Proof of life! I thought I missed the pancake recipe. Sigh of relief…
Looking at that Treehouse, somebody had a good daddy. Quite a group. Great Treehouse. Thanks for your service.
I had an employee once that was dear to me. She said she needed to leave for a while. I told her, “I don’t care how long you are gone as long as you come back. If you ever truly LEAVE us we are going with you.”
I apply the same philosophy to Sundance.
From flyover in MN… With the help of all Treepers and the Leader Sundance we have helped inform our three kids(26,23,19) as best we can. SD wrote a piece about four weeks ago sharing that WE are much more informed than most and it is true. Our three kids are blown away at how ignorant their contemporaries are outside of their friends groups. Here is the moral of this story: my kids are converting and informing many and it is going exponential. Do not give up on Gen Z. As a dumb mechanical engineer I work with many young technical People and they are awesome in their knowledge of issues and common sense.
In May we moved daughter(23) and her family(grandson is 2.5) to Houston… The last thing we unloaded were the 23 guns and safes… The neighbors were saluting.
I am a former soldier who served in German when the Wall was up, and then down off to Desert Storm. Currently serve as a volunteer firefighter. I tell you this ONLY to say that I am proud to serve all of YOU who understand and support this experiment.
Happy Veterans Day brothers and sisters!
Thank you for helping to save us.
We all are doing what we can. The 100 year ‘march through our institutions’ is here and it will take time to reverse. God bless.
What was the date of that story indicating we are more informed? I think I’ll send that link to my 4 boys
Thank you a thousand times over. It’s so difficult to convey the depth of my “thank you” to those who have made a lifetime commitment to this country. “Thank you” seems so inadequate. Sometimes I get so frustrated at my inability to get it across that my eyes leak. I truly am very grateful!
Menagerie, you are a treasure we don’t deserve. All of you and of course especially the founder, Sundance. I don’t know how I personally would have navigated through the last 8 years plus of political chaos without this site as a guiding light to the real truth. No words can ever express my gratitude for you all doing the work you never asked for, with grace and honesty and compassion and straight up no nonsense facts. Thank you and thanks to Mr. Sundance for having the strength and dedication to his country to keep this flame alive for those of us who couldn’t do it ourselves. I pray he gets a much needed and deserved break from this grind.
. I hope you, all of you, understand how much your work means to this treehouse community. May God bless you all.
As American society deteriorates, especially in the large to largest cities, “underground” sites like The Conservative Treehouse become 21st-century Committees of Correspondence, a foundation for building a different – and we hope (at the least ) a spiritually transformed society.
The efforts of you and your colleagues are not just appreciated, valued, joyfully anticipated, but are also important for the building of that new foundation for the future America.
The barbarians are not at the gates and are not necessarily swarming from other countries: they are inside and, like motorcycle gangs, they are wrecking America not just politically, economically, intellectually, and psychologically, they are wrecking our souls as well, with the demonic intent that we will despair and surrender to their hellfire in this world.
It may happen that The Conservative Treehouse will need to go underground for real, via short-wave radio or through actual hand-written letters. If so, we shall resist, and do whatever must be done, to preserve Truth and Freedom.
I am reminded today of the despair in ancient Greek cities in Asia Minor during the period before the Persians attacked the mainland: it is worth remembering that Freedom was wiped out in Asia Minor by the Persian god-king Darius and that attacks on “Greek Freedom” continued under his son Xerxes.
Homer, Herodotus, Thales, and other great and important members of our Western Tradition came not from Athens or the Greek mainland, but from Asia Minor, where Greeks had also founded cities.
The Persians wanted to destroy the Greek mainland because as long as those cities remained free and unsubjugated, the Greek cities under their control would remain disgruntled and sources of revolution.
The Persians failed for the most part.
Our modern-day Persian god-kings are the billionaire Communists and their political allies, using Socialism-Communism as tools to enrich themselves in various anti-Christian ways: our Freedom is as inimical to Soros and Gates and Pelosi and Biden and the rest of their Satanic ilk as the Greeks’ freedom was to Darius and Xerxes.
The Conservative Treehouse stands as an admittedly small lighthouse, but one with a very bright light, against the nightmarish future intended for us by our enemies.
So, we pray that your efforts and our efforts will succeed in turning back what is threatening to become -and in some ways is already happening – a smothering blanket of Evil extinguishing our Freedom, extinguishing our Hope, and extinguishing our souls.
ICQ
Dang, that’s pretty well put!
Yup. Ausonius is brilliant. He was a teacher of Latin and German, and other subjects. He knows his stuff. I always enjoy his posts, especially when they are highly academic. Still, to this day, I miss my college days when academic talk flowed freely. Ausonius is good in that area.
Oh my! Thank you so much for the praise!
You remind me of what a priest of my acquaintance emphasized: Attaining excellence is difficult, but maintaining it is even more so!
Ausonius, this is one of your very best – among many over the years. The print edition is going up on my refrigerator, and copies for our sons are coming off the printer right now.
*On a practical note, short-wave radio is sounding like a better and better option. TY for the reminder to not count on electronics for communication.
But you had me at the history, with its relationship to unfolding events.
Thank you for the very gratifying response!
As an addendum, I should mention that the failed “Ionian Revolt,” (Ionia was the name given to the western, Greek area of Asia Minor, now modern-day Turkey), was led by the city of Miletus, which the Persians destroyed, who enslaved and deported all survivors.
Rural populations proved crucial in rebuilding Miletus: keep that in mind for the future here!
Your excellent essay reminds me of a quote I found yesterday while reading through one of my copy books, from, quite ironically, Baha ‘u’ Llah: “The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.”
Thank you for the quotation: it reminds me of a line by aristocratic Austrian immigrant Erik Von Kuehnnelt-Leddihn (yes, I know, quite a name!), who was a Conservative and wrote for National Review back in the early years of William F. Buckley.
In a book called The Menace of the Herd, written during World War II, he wondered (looking at New York and similar cities) why anyone would want to live (paraphrasing) in Apartment 5387 on 189th Street, as opposed to living in a small town in a house with the address of 10 Maple Street.
The book is available here for free:
https://mises.org/library/menace-herd-or-procrustes-large
How kind of you, Ausonius! Thank you so much.
Several months ago I started to research how to do short-wave radio, but dropped the ball because I couldn’t quite figure out the logistics. If anyone can point me in the direction to get started again, I’d appreciate it.
I too began to look into this a while back and these are the links that a fellow Treeper shared:
National Assoc. for Amateur Radio:
https://www.arrl.org/
Cobra radios:
https://www.cobra.com/pages/cb-radios
walkie-talkies at Home Depot:
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Electrical-Electronics-Two-Way-Radios-Walkie-Talkies/N-5yc1vZc33y
and I too got sidetracked so have been delayed in following through.
Thank you Menagerie for letting us know that Sundance is taking this time to focus on other important parts of life and the wonderful reminder with the Chains post; that was a post that made me come out of my lurker shell and finally decide to post and share in the comments because finally, finally found a group of like-minded people who not only wondered about what was going on, and asked the right questions, but were open to what other people were thinking.
God Bless all the branches of the Treehouse!
Thank you for putting into words that which many of us have been unable to articulate.
You are quite welcome: I suppose my writing style (as Rush Limbaugh would say, a talent on loan from God) came from being able to read c. age 3, an ability nurtured by my Catholic-school education in the good old says! 😉
The old rule, i.e. “Learn to write well by reading great writing,” still applies: one will not learn how to write well by reading the homogenized sludge published today by The Establishment.
40 years ago, a literary agent, after reading a novel of mine, wrote to me:
“Your book is extremely inventive, unique, and well-written, which is why it will never be published.”
i.e. Like movie studios, publishers wanted only stories that were already similar to something else: well-tested, cliched, banal, and therefore nearly risk-free.
Ausonius: I am home schooling my niece, long distance, in English and History. An hour a day, five days per week, complete with reading and writing assignments and quizzes. For English, my reading list consists largely of books that I pull down from the shelf in my den; classics that I was assigned to read 45-50+ years ago, by excellent teachers (I still remember them). I use online material selectively, to replicate the kind of library research that students of the past used to do with the card catalogues.
For history, we stay close to the source material; people writing from their own experience, rather than people writing to convey a popular, “modern” narrative.
Another story! When I was in 7th grade, I had an excellent teacher who assigned a college level research paper, due toward the end of the school year. It was to be a huge portion of our grade. Our teacher told us we would re-learn to write during the year, to her standards.
Indeed, she started with a proper sentence, a paragraph, various forms of letters, including how to address an envelope, and proper salutations and closures. We wrote single page papers, essays, and stories.
All year we worked on the paper. We had to submit our idea, title, sources, an outline, and bibliography cards. Later several drafts. My kids went to parochial schools (at great expense to us) and never learned all that.
And for your history comment, may I be arrogant and link to my own family history? I always intended more, but this is all I ever shared here.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2014/02/16/mailboxes-and-old-barns-from-luxemburg-to-pleasant-run-a-pioneer-tale-by-menagerie/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2014/03/30/mbob-backup-pioneer-problems-and-present-day-perplexities-2/
Yes, and it is not arrogant at all to offer those links!
I recall doing similar things in my Catholic grade school: it prepared me for my Catholic high school, where we had to write essays within two hours. The paper was 11 x 18, with 50 lines per side. It was not unusual to fill those up and need more!
One question I recall from Sophomore year from World Philosophy: “Compare/Contrast the Pre-Socratic philosophers with the Eastern philosophies of (choose two) Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Hinduism, or Buddhism.”
And you had to be specific: vague persiflage was a guaranteed F.
Sorry that America’s educational decline also infected your parochial school!
My education was in a public school on the poor side of town, which makes it even more valuable to me, when I looked back on it. I was blessed to have some grand teachers.
Good for you: I have a grand-niece whom I would like to tutor also via the Internet, but my niece thinks it would be too much stress for her.
She does not seem like a “snowflake,” but…
repositioned to your subsequent comment below
Rest and restore Sundance.
You guys are a fantastic team! Thank you so much for supporting Sundance through the years. The treehouse has been a place to find the TRUTH I need to help me prepare for the coming struggle for our freedom. I have grown through your education, and wisdom imparted to me by your team and the astute, cogent Treepers who comment here!
God bless Sundance and all true Americans.
The Treehouse is my homepage on my desktop. The first thing I do EVERY morning is grab a cup of joe and see what Sundance has presented to us Treepers. Glad everything is ok.
I’m addicted!
Me too!
Me Too! A nice refugee from this chaotic world. I Have learned so much from Sundance and those who
comment.
Thanks for the update.
Like everybody else, I get a little concerned when Sundance disappears for any time at all.
Glad all is good, and that is a GREAT pic!
Looks like a very happy clan.
And that treehouse. Wow. Super fun for kids!
Thank you for the great post and update.
Give SD (and admin all you major limbs on this tree) some breathing room the next couple months.
I’m sure when 2024 hits in about 6 weeks, it’s going to be an extreme marathon (100+ miles) at sprint speed thru
November 2024 (and beyond).
All of us little branches (and the twig I might be) need to relax a bit too for about 6 weeks. I know sometimes that will be tough (I look forward to each new post just like everyone), but as he says, live your best life.
Thank you for the update. The Lord’s mercies renew everyday. So we have hope. Great picture. Kep on keepin on.
Thank you for providing an update and also for your timely Thanksgiving story.
A true guide to a rewarding life.
Happy that all is well here at the Treehouse. I could feel something was off and thought where’s Sundance. I saw a picture of Elon Musk on X that said he was out fishing. My thought was Elon and Sundance were fishing together wouldn’t that be something! Those two talking oh the things Sundance could teach him sigh. Point being many people read here and count on this blog to learn and understand what’s really going on in our world. Many thanks to everyone here. Peace and love to all our limb sitters.
Everyone needs time away…Thank you, Menagerie for the reflection by sharing your ponderings. I now am beginning to understand this blog’s width, depth, and breadth much more as the many posts herein give insightful knowledge to move us forward. Our Heavenly Father has a plan for us all…It is up to us while “spitting, sputtering, & stuttering” to hopefully choose good over evil and moving his plan to greater heights… and at all times being grateful for our Good Lord’s blessings…
Semper Fidelis
Thank you for the update. What was the name of Sundance’s prior blog?
I wrote this to someone this morning and so I repeat ‘trust is not given but earned”. Here is my guide through the trying times of our America. I have total trust in the Treehouse with the words of Sundance. No, he might not be always right, but he sure tries to be and that’s all God asks of us. Once a Christian, the Holdy Spirit never leaves us. Sometimes we think we have gotten lost but never. The river might get to be overflowing but the Spirit carries us through. God bless all of you.
Well said drip drip!
This Treehouse, Sundance, you and the other admins, and the commenters here make my life much better and brighter.
Thanks to all of you for all you do. Even if my monthly contribution seems small, I appreciate all you all do to make this corner of the world a sanctuary for thought and prayer.
Much love to you all.
I don’t comment often, but religiously read the blogs. Most of the time, our thoughts are the same, but some of the time I get insight past that. Thanks.
I don’t really have a story. However, I will say that when it seems the is no way to stop the evil that is happening, I climb into the Treehouse to find strength through fellow treepers here. I am sure my family has heard me say, “I am going to go and climb into the treehouse for awhile.” I always find hope here.
Menagerie, I still think and pray about you and Conner, our fighters, every time I see a pumpkin. Including this photo I saw on 5 Nov 2023 and immediately saved to share with you at a later date. Enjoy!
BTW, that’s a pretty nice treehouse you got there. Lot’s of ingenuity! Not surprising from you all. I was never more impressed than with the speed of light move from WP to the current framework. I think people need to report WP to CONgress as one of the massive perpetrators of censorship.
Sundance looks like he is outnumbered. 😉
That is not only priceless but precious… Thank for sharing!
“Sundance looks like he’s outnumbered..” LOL
Actually, Sundance looks like he’s very, very well-supported! 😉
😀😀😀Thank you!
Be well Sundance…we love you ❤️ and miss more than tongue can tell
Every time Sundance shares this post, it touches me deeply. Sundance has helped me change my life for the better. I love this MAGA Brother and I send him waves of joy and peace and blessings. 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
I like the way you frame the story as a walk in the woods because that is the way of life. I too have been grateful that I found the Treehouse family. Thank you all for helping through the last 3 1/2 years and not even knowing it. Love you
Glad to hear all is well.
Hope he takes as much time as he feels he needs.
Can’t say that I wasn’t concerned though with regards to outside forces.
Enjoy the post of a beautiful family. Thank you for all you do. Sundance deserves a break. Thank you Leo.
Thank you so much for the update. I feel like the CT is my refuge in the storm. there has never been a time in my life (71 years!) that i have felt so out of control, so bombarded by insanity (it is whack-a-mole every day with the things our out-of-control govt keeps coming up with!!!!!), so very worried about our future….the future for our children and grandchildren…So rest and recharge, SD!!! we will all be here waiting for you to come back.
“there has never been a time in my life . . . that i have felt so out of control, so bombarded by insanity (it is whack-a-mole every day with the things our out-of-control govt keeps coming up with!!!!!), so very worried about our future….the future for our children and grandchildren.”
My thoughts exactly. I have to daily remind myself that God is in control. This is all prophecy.
Retired Magistrate here: OK, here is a story. Born in a steel along the Ohio River several years after World War II ended. My brother came along about 6 years later. Good memories of that town and childhood. We didn’t have much, but we loved each other.
In the mid 50’s we moved to Central Ohio. From the time I was 12 one or both parents were in the hospital with serious medical issues. So, I learned to take care of the house, do laundry, cook and do whatever was necessary to keep the home fires burning. I took business classes in high school because there was no money to send me to college and I always wanted to support myself. Several days after graduation I moved out of the house and started my first job.
After another year it all went downhill. Got pregnant, out of wedlock, went to a home for unwed mothers (horrible experience) and gave the baby up for adoption. Then I got married which turned out to be another disaster because he was a womanizer and an abuser. That lasted for 8 years. OK, so now what would I do with my life. Really wanted to help people so I became a police officer in the mid 70’s; the first woman hired in a city of about 20,000. That is a story in and of itself for another time.
After several years I realized this was not the career I wanted so I decided to go to college. At this point in time, both parents had died. I took care of my Mother for 4 years when she had liver cancer; she was a fighter and amazed everyone by living that long. Was accepted into a business school and went to school at night and worked during the day. Crammed a 4 year program into 3 years by going all year round.
Graduated and sold everything so I could attempt to go to law school. Success and another 4 year program crammed into 3 1/2 by going year round and going to school at night and working during the day. Several days after graduation from law school I had my jaw broken and wired shut (to fix a really bad birth defect) so I couldn’t eat much while I was taking the bar review course. Took the bar exam (three days of hell) and several days after that had a subcutaneous mastectomy (which they don’t do anymore because you literally are butchered). Got a job conditioned on my passing the bar; I passed!
So several stints working for the State, a private company, opened my own practice and then becoming a Magistrate, the position I retired from. During all of that I met a wonderful man; we have been married 34 years. I have had serious health problems our entire marriage; however, he has never left my side. Now he has serious health problems, and I have never left his side.
We love each other and JESUS CHRIST.
Thank you for letting me share my story.
Retired Magistrate here: Oops: “steel town”.
What a great story! Thank you and blessings in Jesus!
Beautiful story, thank you.
Your insights always add so much depth to the ‘legal aspects’ of discussions. Thank you.
Now we even know the amazing journey you’ve taken to get where you are.
May our Heavenly Father bless you, your husband, and all that’s dear to you.
Wow, I always read the comments.
and when I see yours I take note of them as you have always had
a level head. I had no idea what you had to go through to get there.
Now it all makes sense why you are so fair minded. I’ll pray for you
and your husband’s health. I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised
that you have struggled to get to where you are now.
It’s our struggles that make us who we are.
Thanks for sharing. I hope more will.
Wonderful, thanks for sharing.
Im not sure they still make ppl like you. what a blessing it is to have you here, dear friend.
You have grit!
As Shirley Temple used to say: “Oh, my goodness!”
And if that’s not true grit, nothing is!! Am always glad to see a nice long post from you coming up because I know I’ll enjoy every word. 🥰
Bravo, Marcia, bravo! 👏👏
Some time off from writing for Sundance? BEYOND WELL EARNED.
Frankly, My Dears, to all of you, my Dearly Beloved who read and discuss here, I gave up, long ago, trying to digest how our treasured SD keeps up the pace. And I have worried about him because of the enormity of the load he has willingly taken up and ceaselessly bears on our behalf.
Without Sundance, his support crew, and all of you in this Treehouse, I don’t know where I would be in the midst of the deliberately manufactured fog.
Thank you Menagerie, Wee Weed, Ad Rem, Stella, and Sharon, for your unflagging support of Sundance in the work you all do with him, and for maintaining the framework for the alliance in this Treehouse. Thank you particularly, Menagerie, for bringing us up to speed.
God bless the America we have known, respected, loved, and are determined to preserve.
God bless our military veterans to whom this day is dedicated.
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This is supposed to be a heart, but it didn’t come out correctly. Oh well.
Not to worry! Figuratively speaking, they come in all shapes and sizes.😊
The Treehouse is where I have received most of my information the last several years. I am so grateful for Sundance and all the others on this site. you all have the same shared values, belief and love of The Lord. A well deserved time off for Sundance! Love all you guys!
Been with you guys from the start…followed some Lucianne breadcrumbs and found my family. Can’t believe it’s been so many years…
Love to Sundance and team and fellow Treepers!
Wowsers! Nope too many of us left here now. I’m glad you are.
I came here from Lucianne too!
That was my daily site until I found CTH.
In fact, my very first head-spinning revelation here was what an addlepated fool (hat tip to My Fair Lady) Lucianne’s son is. Could not believe it at first, but then saw the evidence that it’s true..
Followed breadcrumbs from Lucianne as well. Native So Cal, moved to TX 8/21 w son & DIL. I rarely post over yrs. Licensed therapist in CA and worked in CA superior Court 20 yrs as Family Law Mediator. I’m kinda surprised Sundances Link post was from early days. It’s so current and fresh in my mind and how I think and feel about my fellow Treepers.
I’ve learned so much from all. Totally initially NOT DJT 2016 supporter…read Sundance for Travey Martin info. Then observed his correct descriptions of what would transpire in the primaries…amazing.
The spiritual food here is life sustaining and has further developed my relationship with Jesus Christ, our living hope.
As we enter these next week’s of Thanksgiving & Christmas, I pray for Sundance, all of the Adms and every Treehouse Family that shares a branch and their family and friends a season of contentedness, making new memories and JOY where ever He places us
Blessings and thanks to all.
Happy Veterans Day
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost
Thank you for such a nice Post. Be safe and enjoy your wknd everyone
Thank you for sharing and updating. I was beginning to be concerned. We all need time to attend to our needs, refresh and reclaim that which must be done, that which sustains us and that which lifts us.
Tree house is a special environment…an environment of different people which some important agreements. We seem to love God, prayer, country, America, family, and friends and have respect for those who have a different view.
Lovingly to the “crew”. Thank you and blessings.
Won’t rehash my story here, but I would like to thank those of you who answered my prayer request posted in the open thread back in December 2021 when I was five years jobless and about to be evicted from my rental unit. Those prayers resulted in a loan from my brother to allow me to pay the rent and a job offer in January 2022 which 23 months later I remain employed in, having gotten numerous raises and praises from the company owner over that time. And it was all thanks to you folks here at the CT. I can’t thank you enough.
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This Canadian thanks you!
Cheers to all!
Love you Dekester!
And donate. I know I’m one to talk. Last week, I just did my first ever online donation to anything. I admit it wasn’t much, but maybe pays for a few seconds of stuff. Our sand in the gears is making sure this place stays viable. Give him and the rest of admin some nice Christmas gifts, donations.
Remember the story of the beach full of 100s of star fish and the little boy. Little boy tossing beached starfish back in. Old person says, it doesn’t matter, you can’t save them all. Little boy tosses in another, well it mattered to that one.
Absolutely! This Thanksgiving donate to the Tree House, and be Thankful for the wonderful education, and free banter we are able to have.
Donation done.
Love the starfish story!