The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The comments are by Bruce Mowbray.

Bruce Mowbray: Hello, Breezer!
Breezer Tomsen: Hi Bruce! It's been a while
Breezer Tomsen: how are you I see you look like a reindeer now :-)
Bruce Mowbray: Yes it has! How have you been?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, the antlers are grown just for the Yule season, though.
Breezer Tomsen: ok nice
Breezer Tomsen: well here it is okay, but it was a little bit stormy lately, inside i mean
Breezer Tomsen: and how about you?
Bruce Mowbray: I remember your name. . . but all the other details about you seem to have faded . .
Breezer Tomsen: no problem :-)
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Breezer Tomsen: nice picture in your profile you have
Bruce Mowbray: And my memory (or lack of it) is part of an answer to your question about "how I am."
Bruce Mowbray: Thanks.
Bruce Mowbray: I should check that -- I haven't done anything with the profile for months and months.
Bruce Mowbray: kk. The photo is fairly up to date, I guess.
Breezer Tomsen: still in the woods?
Breezer Tomsen: hello catrina
Catrinamonblue Resident: hi guys
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Catrina.
Bruce Mowbray: My typist still lives in the woods, yes.

--BELL--

Breezer Tomsen: hmm my avatar keeps on typing
Catrinamonblue Resident: what are you wearing, Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: I am wearing several things, actually.
Bruce Mowbray: antlers...
Bruce Mowbray: coffee....
Bruce Mowbray: blue leather jacket....
Catrinamonblue Resident: and a wreath?
Bruce Mowbray: and a Christmas wreath!

Bruce Mowbray: yeppers!
Catrinamonblue Resident: lol LOVE it!!!
Breezer Tomsen: nice
Bruce Mowbray: I will see if I can give you a copy.. Just a sec.
Bruce Mowbray: Oh, I am sorry --- It is "no transfer."
Breezer Tomsen: Hi druth
Catrinamonblue Resident: that's ok I love seeing it on you
druth Vlodovic: hey guys
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, druth!
Bruce Mowbray: Thanks, Cat!
Bruce Mowbray: In RL I have almost nothing to do with Christmas, actually.
Bruce Mowbray: But in SL, well, it's fun to get into the spirit of things.
druth Vlodovic: why is that?
Bruce Mowbray: I don't know, druth. . . just feels good. . .
Bruce Mowbray: or did you mean, why is that in RL?
druth Vlodovic: both actually :)

Bruce Mowbray: Well, I've already answered for SL -- it feels good to celebrate the season....
Bruce Mowbray: but in RL,
Bruce Mowbray: well,
Bruce Mowbray: no family. . . and I don't enjoy the tumult and chaos of going into town...
Breezer Tomsen: nice cup of hot chocolate
Bruce Mowbray: so, I just have a wee celebration out here in the "woods" -- ha ha.
druth Vlodovic: ah, it's mainly a family thing, really
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, celebrate with some cocoa,

druth Vlodovic: hmm, what do you do in the woods?
Bruce Mowbray: or some wassail,
Bruce Mowbray: or some mulled wine,
Bruce Mowbray: or something else like that.
Bruce Mowbray: I LIVE in the woods!
Bruce Mowbray: with my dog Bear.
Catrinamonblue Resident: I wish I lived in the woods
Breezer Tomsen: you shoot grizzly's and stuff Bruce? :-)
Bruce Mowbray: Actually, my typist enjoys the company of wild animals more than the company of people -- most times, anyway.
Bruce Mowbray: No, I do NOT shoot anything. . . although deer season started this week.
Bruce Mowbray: so there are lots of guns going off around me.
Bruce Mowbray wonders why all three of you are floating.
druth Vlodovic: high on life
Bruce Mowbray: (and I am not!)
Catrinamonblue Resident: wish I knew too...it's strange
Breezer Tomsen: ok I see, yes animals are pure - i love em to
Bruce Mowbray: although I was floating earlier....
druth Vlodovic: you're too grounded
Bruce Mowbray: ME!? Grounded??
Bruce Mowbray: I don't think so, but thanks anyway.
Bruce Mowbray looks for something warm to drink...
Catrinamonblue Resident: Do you find it lonely living in the woods by yourself?
Bruce Mowbray: not at all, Cat.
Breezer Tomsen: lots of glitches in this new software update i guess, i am floating and my avatar keeps on typing sometimes when i don't type, funny....
Bruce Mowbray: Really, I have not been lonely for decades...
Bruce Mowbray: except in some very specific ways.
Catrinamonblue Resident: Sometime I dream about what it would be like to live like that
Bruce Mowbray: like, I recently lost my brother... who would call me on the phone every two weeks or so...
Bruce Mowbray: so, I miss those calls.
Bruce Mowbray: but otherwise, I'm not lonely at all.
Catrinamonblue Resident: oh I'm so sorry Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: After all, there are all of these trees and wild animals around, you know.
Bruce Mowbray: Thank you, he died in August.
Bruce Mowbray: It was a surprise to all of us....
Bruce Mowbray: but on we go.
Catrinamonblue Resident: I find the woods so peaceful; there is a place near me that I like to go to
Breezer Tomsen: sorry to hear Bruce
Catrinamonblue Resident: to walk, and find peace
druth Vlodovic: my condolences Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Actually, the family really pulled together wonderfully....
Bruce Mowbray: I flew to Washington state for his memorial service and got re-acquainted with my nephews...
Bruce Mowbray: and it was really fine.
Catrinamonblue Resident: lovely when family can do that
Bruce Mowbray: So, life goes on.... and that's how he would have wanted it, also.
Bruce Mowbray: Well, my relatives are not known for getting along. . .
Bruce Mowbray: actually,
Bruce Mowbray: so it was, indeed, a pleasant surprise that everything went so smoothly.
Bruce Mowbray: And I have been in touch with his kids and wife several times since then, and that is very good.
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)

--BELL--

Breezer Tomsen: any snow already Bruce in the woods?
Bruce Mowbray: We've had just a few flurries so far this year,
Bruce Mowbray: but today it is up to about 60 (F) -- so no snow.
Bruce Mowbray: They are really getting pelted on the West Coast, though.
Breezer Tomsen: ok snow is beautiful especially in the woods
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yes! Snow is lovely; we just haven't had much of it yet.
Breezer Tomsen: i like the silence and serenity when it snows :-)
Bruce Mowbray: Give it another couple of weeks, though!
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I love that, too, Breezer.
Bruce Mowbray: Cozy, comfortable, warm. . .
Breezer Tomsen: here we always have to see if it will snow, some winters it does some winters it doesn't
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Well, we always get SOME snow....
Bruce Mowbray: and sometimes a LOT of it!
Bruce Mowbray: But last winter was one of the mildest ever.
Breezer Tomsen: lucky you
Breezer Tomsen: :-)
Catrinamonblue Resident: I love snow
Bruce Mowbray: Now that I am retired, I say: Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Bruce Mowbray: because I don't have to drive to work anymore....
druth Vlodovic: a new perspective :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: just not -35 C wind chills
Bruce Mowbray: Oh my --- Those wind chills are rough. . . We've been down to minus 60 with wind chills here . . . and then it is dangerous even to walk the length of the driveway to get the mail.
Bruce Mowbray: minus 60 is, of course, Fahrenheit!)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: THANKS for the hot chocolate!
Breezer Tomsen: are there still a lot of meetings here Bruce?  haven't been here for a while...
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yes, there are several meetings.
Breezer Tomsen: ok nice
Bruce Mowbray: but most of them (except for the 4 X's daily) are in different locations around the sim.
Bruce Mowbray: I sit with a group on Mondays that's been meeting for over a year now...
Bruce Mowbray: and on Saturdays, there is another group. . .
Bruce Mowbray: and on Tuesdays, another...
Breezer Tomsen: nice so lot of dedication
Bruce Mowbray: So, there are several branches to this tree called PaB.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, seems so, Breezer.
druth Vlodovic: slipping off...
druth Vlodovic: have fun guys :)
Bruce Mowbray: Bye, druth!
Breezer Tomsen: can I drop a topic here now?
Breezer Tomsen: bye druth
Catrinamonblue Resident: me too :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: have fun guys
Bruce Mowbray: Please do, Breezer.
Bruce Mowbray: Bye, Cat!
Breezer Tomsen: by catrina
Breezer Tomsen: well I don't know if ya remember my 'story', had some psychosis in the past
Bruce Mowbray: I am so sorry that I don't remember the specifics, Breezer.
Breezer Tomsen: now i am stable for few years
Breezer Tomsen: and it going pretty okay
Bruce Mowbray: If you would care to adjourn to a more private place, that would be fine with me....
Breezer Tomsen: oh if ya like, i will follow you, guess you know this place better than me ...:-)
Bruce Mowbray: Shall we go to my plot?
Breezer Tomsen: a plot is a?
Bruce Mowbray: My "home."
Breezer Tomsen: oh ok cool yes nice