ActiveBob.....It's always Raining!

As some of you may or may not know, our very own "The Lovely Wife" has been a bit under the weather lately and has been taking a break from the Rain. I have to admit I miss her. I miss her encouraging level headed approach to ActiveRain. Billie is symbolic of what makes ActiveRain great in my never humble opinion.

Many of you may miss her crazy, all-out sense of humor. The sense of humor that thinks it's funny to nail low ball offers to a tree and shoot at them with a shotgun. Some of you may miss her signature ROAR (can I even use this without reprecussions?) that accentuates every well thought out point she makes. Some of you may miss her Crap-o-rama blog posts. Some of you may miss her 'there's a booger hanging from your nose, haha made you look' wisdom. I miss all of those things...........

.......but I really miss is having her steady influence on me as I help guide this mighty ship, the USS AcitveRain. You see, Billie has always been willing to reach out when she could sense that things were getting stressful for me and offer her support and a caring word. I'm sure I have said thank you to her on the many phone conversations and emails that we have shared (I was raised by my mother and have pretty decent manners, no matter what Brad and Rich will tell you) but I want her to know how much it really meant and means to me.

I know I am not the only one that TLW has reached out to in the Rain.

I don't know if it was divine intervention, but I was the first person ever to comment on a post written by TLW. This was long before I was ever on board full time with ActiveRain. I was just like you, a member (who happened to share an office with the founders, but a member nonetheless). Neither of us knew that almost a year later I would be in a position to have an impact on this great community. She wanted to know how she could overcome her addiction to ActiveRain. Haha, her first post was about being addicted. I think she liked my answer because we have had a great relationship ever since.

I don't know if she agrees with everything I say or do, but she always supports the decisions we make because she knows that we truly have the best interests of the members and the community in mind. She knows this because she has gone out of her way to reach out to me when things are rough and even if I didn't take her up on the offer every time she did it, I always know that I have a friend in the rain that I can trust to talk with if I need advice.

This post was inspired by Jeanean Gendron's post. Jeanean had a great idea and we are going to make it a reality. I know that I don't have to bride you with points, but since TLW was always making smart ass remarks about getting her 25 points for commenting, your TLW love fest post is going to get you a whopping 25 points...........because I know she'd be pissed if I gave you more. So get your butt over to Jeanean's post and see what it's all about and let's lift the spirits of a lady who has meant so much to this community............or I'll sick Blogging Bertha on your ass!!

(I was going to hijack a photo of TLW but I just couldn't bring myself to do it......after watching her work that shotgun again, my palms were sweating as I hit the right click button)

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU COMMENT: This post is not intended for you to leave a canned comment on. This lady really means a lot to me so if you plan on leaving a comment and it's going to be canned crap, just don't.......I will erase it. If you don't know TLW, go read some of her posts because you are missing out big time!