Thank You Barry for all the work you have put into this community.

All the Best,

Michael Smith

Barry, Wacco BB has been a wonderful community resource and you are a true community treasure. Whatever new endeavor you take on, I am sure we will all benefit greatly from it!

On to the further...

Thank you Barry for having such a multi-varied space here in Wacco for so many diverse folks. I have really enjoyed being able to express myself over the the years, almost 20 or so!

You can have...

Jan 4

629 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. There was very little reporting over the weekend and only 26 reported yesterday. If the last 4 days are averaged it's about 180 cases per day. Follow...

West County just won't be the same without WACCO. :( It has been a great enhancement of our lives. Thank you, Barry, for your gift as well as your patience, benevolence and sanity. I've mostly been...

I, for one, am very sorry to see Wacco closing. It's gotten much more contentious as the pandemic wears on and wears on us, which, I believe, affects Barry's decision to end it. The need for a...

<br><br>We wish you and yours, the most relaxing, safest, peaceful journey...
I know your site allowed so many to speak their minds; fears, choices, confusions, concerns. You are always attentive...

so so sorry, but truly understand... please keep in touch, ..I see the face of Goddess in you, both... I will so miss you...
g'ma deborah louise thayer

Thanks Barry for creating this wonderful thriving website for so long.:waccosun::heart:

WaccoBB has been a good learning experience for me, a true blessing.
I even got into contact with a friend...

Wow, a vital institution is closing! While it's hard to believe it, I can totally understand why, and wish to express my deep gratitude to you Barry for everything that you have provided to the...

Oh, Barry - i am so sad. after all these years, exchanges, everything,
i/we will really miss you and our community.
can hardly believe it. what ever will we do without waccobb, yawl?

Many thanks for the amazing work over the years, Barry. You will be missed, as will the political cartoons and poems and many, many other parts of my Digest. All the best.

Barry, you and wacco will be missed! I have found wacco to be informative and entertaining. I'm really going to miss your cartoons and Larry's poems, among other things. I can well understand your...

I am sooo sorry to hear this news Barry.... and I totally understand your decision.

Thank you for creating and maintaining such a wonderful community resource... You and WaCCO will be missed...

Barry, thanks so much for all your great work over all these years. I completely understand your need to let it go. As you may know, Bill and I moved to Asheville, NC a couple months ago, and I still...

Barry,

Thank you for your amazing service to our community all this time. I can't imagine any other platform can replace Wacco, which I still tell someone new about at least once a week. I haven't...

Barry, I took an audible inhale as I read your post title. Oh no! But then a felt a peaceful exhale as I read how well you were taking care of yourself and your decision. You truly created a...

Barry, thank you for the service you have provided to the community! Bigly appreciated!!
heresbruce Bruce Schmidt in Jenner

Jan 3

26 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here.

Hospital Capacity Dashboard is up again. it has been reconfigured in percentages rather than actual numbers....

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The time has come to close the WaccoBB.net website.



Lots of factors have converged to make this the appropriate...

Thank you for all you’re doing to keep us updated.

So you're talking about the deaths per total population. I think a couple things factor into our overall fairly low death rate in Sonoma County and the Bay Area in general. Firstly we have done a...

A year of loss and chaos draws to a close.

Stories from a thousand cultures remind us that the cosmos is born - and reborn again and again - from chaos.

We have passed the darkest night of...

The Sonoma County Tourist Board is promoting travel to SoCo during this deadly and uncontrolled pandemic.
Got a Pop-Up ad from them this morning.
Irresponsible behaviour to invite travelers into...

A Winter’s Alcove

There are sorrowful, chilled fogs these days that remind one of his mortality. We are in that season when the sun loses the eternal tug-of-war with the icy moon, as exhausted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqA1Ry69kvU

John McCutcheon wrote a song about it:
...

Others who noted that very special day and other times preceding it as well: World War I: The 1914 Christmas Truce

https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-war-i-the-1914-christmas-truce/5421076

1914 Truce


Christmas Eve in the trenches of France, the guns were quiet.
The dead lay still in No Man’s Land –
Freddie, Franz, Friedrich, Frank . . .
The moon, like a medal, hung in the...

It said at the beginning of the video that it was a "dramatic reenactment"
It was brilliantly done, IMO.

thank you, you make this G'ma proud!

This is a documentary on wild turkeys which is very enjoyable. You can see it online free:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvccpd

Even though this is an Australian Parody, It is, after all 'International Politics'.:wink2:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwQkQxvWilk&feature=emb_logo

There's a very simple reason "you don't hear about this anywhere" but the conspiracy pushing websites you frequent- its BUL*%%*t .

This is from the conspiracy pushing group calling themselves the...

Rosa, Born During a Pandemic


On Zoom an infant smiles:
It was months before we visited you live and three weeks
more before we could hold you. My granddaughter limitless,
without...

More Than Something Else


Something Else.
Some one else
Some where else


That place is here,
In my home,

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Miracles


Here I sit at my computer on 11-11-11, reading hours of emails and petitions and forwards about Delaware River fracking, and Mississippi’s rejection of personhood for women’s eggs, and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5euXPUwj4

I think I will check out of this thread - it is taking up too much of my time and energy - good luck to everyone finding the truth about our current craziness, there has been so much obfuscation of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D0KDM8eM6c



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA0YZVbg748



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP4OpshcmTI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS8SUqqZD5k




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Here's a photo from Larry Tristano facebook page

His family owned the Triple T Ranch and Farm which was almost completely burnt in the Glass fire.

There's a GofundMe for the Triple T...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NA-Dg7ibZI&feature=emb_logo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1odd2yscP8Y

In 2020 over 3,500,000 acres have been burned by wildfires in California alone (Center for Disaster Philanthropy). Firefighters are working tirelessly to protect communities; families and wildlife...

Appealing to our caring community for help - one of the farmers in the Sebastopol Farmers market lost all his possessions in the recent fires in Santa Rosa!

His name is Larry Tristano at 707 529...

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