It's sort of ironic you posted this Carol. On another outdoor message board I frequent, someone started a similar thread about a regular who nobody heard from for awhile. I think everyone enjoyed reading his posts and there were probably 50 replies to this thread wondering where he was.
Well, everyone only knew him by his handle, schnoopus. Nobody knew his real name. Finally, someone did a search and he did put his name down as Ron on one post. Well, about a week ago someone who once met him posted his last name and then a couple of days later this guys obituary showed up. Seems he died in a car crash on December 21st while coming home from ice fishing.
You know, we come here every day almost and we really don't know too much about anybody we interact with. We could pass them on the street and not know it. Sort of sad in a way.
It does make you wonder where some of the regulars do go.