Turner's Perspective

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

thanks for the tear my friend - you know how I feel.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

(btw - that black background with no light was Kickin'!!)

Jeff - That was a rockin' video! The effect was stunning. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! You have drug me into technology I had never even heard about and just look...I can do it! Thanks, Jeff!

Hi Jeff, That was a great message and thank you. Happy Thanksgiving Jeff to you and your whole family. We all have so much to be thankful for. You have been a wonderful mentor and I am personally so happy that you found another outlet ( ActiveRain )for all that passion that is in you and your desire to have such an wonderful impact on all of our lives. We are the ones blessed to have you in our lives. You are such a remarkable person. Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey Jeff!  A VERY Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. I am very grateful for the things I have learned from you too and though I have not met you face to face....just know...your heart shines through in all you write and say through your videos. A very thankful day to you and and your family!

Jeff, Thank you so much for the wonderful video.  We are truly blessed.  Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!

Yes we are truly blessed! If it was not for the rain, we would never appreciate the sunshine. We have so much to be grateful for. God bless you and your family.

Hi Jeff, Thanks for the video.  Enjoyed watching it.  Happy Thanksgiving to you, Rocky & the family.  Now, I'm signing off to be with mine. :)

Jeff, what a sensitive and touching message. So much more shows through a video than in a photo. Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and everyone here on AR. We are blessed to live in such a wonderful country.......and such a time as this.

Jeff - Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Terrific personal video couldn't have been more appropriate! You are the king of technology! Now when are you going to teach us all how to use our video cams and computers & microphones?  Great job.

Ines, Linda, William, Sally, Kathleen, Dionne, Lola Teri and Candace... thank you. Santa Claus 2 just ended. (Christmas was saved, by the way!) So now, I'm shutting down the computer for the holiday. So very much to be thankful for! :)

Jeff,

You, my friend, are one amazing person.  Thank you for your video, your contributions and your talents.

Happy Thanksgiving to you, Rocky and the family.  May God bless you all. 

Thanks for a powerful and heartfelt message. The starkness of the video really drove home the message for me that it's not about things or where we're at in our lives or careers, it's about the basic human connections. Have a great Thanksgiving, and we'll look for the Turner family football video this weekend!

Have a great Thanksgiving Jeff.  I am blessed that you put together such a great product that has helped my business grow and then in the meantime I get to know you and Rocky.  You two are such wonderful people and through your words and actions Mike and I got to know and learn more than just a great product for my business.  

Not too many people run a customer service department like you Jeff!

An aside:  It's odd to see how everyone interpreted the background.  I saw you as the "all knowing wizard of Oz"

"There's no place like home" 

Thank YOU for providing such a great product in RES and for encouraging all of your users to check out AR.  Without that, I would not be here!  Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!

Jeff, Right back at you! You should know that you reach so many people that you don't realize. It really is like a pebble dropped in a pond. You and the things you do cause great ripples! 

THANKS FOR YOU! 

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours Jeff!  We truly are blessed each and every day!!!

We ARE blessed.  Thank you, Jeff, and happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, too!  Hug 'em all for us!

Happy Thanksgiving Jeff! I hope the day is extra special for you and your family.

Thank you Jeff for the reminder of how blessed we are!  Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.  I'm so thankful I got to meet you in person!

Happy Thanksgiving Jeff, Rocky and family.

The video reminded me of Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now....without "the horror". Very cool!

Gotta love those built in cameras on macs!! Thank you for the wonderful and heartfelt message. Wishing you and your family a Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving. Your Orlando & Lake Mary Real Estate Expert, Heather Joubran

{SVW Hubba)...

I only have a minute or two before our day of serving the homeless begins.

I have taken that moment to acknowledge that in spite of everything that is and has gone on I am still blessed.

Thank you for all you have done and all you will continue to do. My love to you, the Rock and all of the idgets :)

Have a wonderful day and we'll chat soon.

P.S. You were one of those there blessings in disguise. I'll leave it that :)

TLW...ROAR!

Happy Thanksgiving!  This was a tough year for you with the fires but you were really blessed in your outcome...

Have a great Thanksgiving and Thank YOU for all you do.

Jeff,

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

I hope you have a wonderful Holiday,

Tom Weiss

Dear Jeff, Rocky, "crowd of children", and all you Activerainers,

Thank you for the wonderful video message. If you are reading this message on Thanksgiving, move your mouse over to the "close" button and click. Read this on Friday.

I am waiting at the train station waiting for my brother to arrive. He has his own issues and never had a family of his own. Thanksgiving is one of the days he comes to visit and enjoys ours. As I sit and think about the choices we all make. The broker's wife with her homeless diners, the woman at MORe who spends most of today organizing donations of gifts to needy children, or Rocky's efforts every day. We all choose to be engaged, to make a difference in the lives of others. At the risk of sounding pious or fawning, I am impressed and humbled to know you guys. Now I know we know each other as somewhat distant contacts, but the messages I have received on Activerain have sometimes touched my heart.

For a jaded political animal, that is a feat. At first I assumed that agents were just wearing there hearts on their sleeves to garner business. Nothing wrong with that, this is America and all's fair. But over the months I've been participating in Activerain I've come to understand how deeply committed people are to their causes.

For my wife Jenifer and I, we support the Eastern Social Welfare Agency and LifeLink International for their tireless work on behalf of orphaned children in Korea. We do what we can, we hope to do more, but your stories and experiences give us strenght to do our best.

The train pulled in. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Jeff Merrinette

Happy Thanksgiving, Jeff, to you and Rocky and your family! You have given so much more than you've received. We're blessed to have you.

Jeff - that was really great! thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you, your wife and the entire family! You give so much to this site! thank you!

Jeff - Thank you and have a Happy Thanksgiving. 

Thanks to you for being such a truly wonderful influence to so many here in the Rain.  Many blessings to you and yours for a Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Lisa & Bob

Amen to that! It really has been a great year! As Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) would have said,"Good to be here...good to be anywhere!" Happy Thanksgiving!! 

Jeff, your presence and your contributions here are something to be thankful for!

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Aloha Jeff - It was great meeting you last week in person.  I wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving.

Jeff, thanks for all your help here in the rain and through your realestateshows. You know I think you rock. Happy Thanksgiving, we are blessed.

Jeff, what a lovely tribute. I too, would like to thank you and the others here on Active Rain for the privilege of blogging with such great folks. I don't really have a lot to offer anyone as so many seem to but it has been a thrill to be in a group that is so overwhelmingly generous and accepting.

I used one of your videos to say thanks to the AR gods and wish them all a Happy Thanksgiving. I think we are all so very lucky that these guys came up with Active Rain and gave us each this vehicle to learn and experience each other. I also want to thank you, Jeff for being here and introducing the real estate shows to us so that we can better communicate on-line.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family.

Thanks for the message. And A Happy Thanksgiving Day to you as well.

Jeff, great Thanksgiving Video!  Thank you!  I too have begun to use the web cam in 2007 thanks to one of the members here on Active Rain, Henry Delangelo who is from Fairfield, Connecticut as well.  By emailing my clients a vdeo repsonse to their questions/concerns, it makes it more personable.  Jeff, you are a great asset to this community and it is a pleasure to be able to say that I am part of the same community as you.  Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family from me and my family!  Sorry, I didn't put together a video but just a quick picture that I edited just to use in my quick active rain blog.

Jeff, Rocky,  & Kidlets,

What a touching video and message!  Thank you!

Jeff, you taught me so much... although I don't seem to find time to apply your teachings.  You and your family have significantly impacted the world and bring joy to many.  I am soooo fortunate to have met you.

Also, the happiest of Thanksgiving wishes to my Active Rain family!

Enjoy your day!

Very nicely done Jeff, Happy Thanksgiving to you, Rocky and all your children as your children are very blessed to have been chosen by you and Rocky.

Happy Thanksgiving to you also!!

 

Even though Thanksgiving has already passed here in Canada, I want to thank Jeff for that wonderful post and wish you and your families a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. There is something about this time of the year that really puts things into perspective. I am also very thankful for the people that I have met through this blogging medium and the friendships that I have made.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving to the Jeff, Rocky and the Turner Brood.  Most excellent message!!! (in true turner style.) 

happy thanksgiving Jeff - as a fellow Mac user, I've learned so much from you - it's amazing...

Ruthmarie 

Jeff, great video gift to all who read you.

It was good to see you last week at NAR.

Enjoy the Holidays they are a time to reflect on why we do what we do and with whom we do it.

It's about time someone did a video post around here. I keep wondering why we're not seeing more of these. I keep thinking about doing one, but I guess I'm a chicken to be the first. Now I don't have to worry about it and let's face it, you're the expert =) Hopefully you'll start a new trend! Happy Thanksgiving!

Jeff, What a beautiful message.  My computer wouldn't download it all, but I saw about 90% of the video.  I was struck by what you said about people online acting like real friends.  AR is an amazing community of people, unlike anything I've experienced in my 8 years of being a part of different online groups on the Internet.  Your webcam video adds another dimension and enhances our ability to connect with one another.  Thank you for introducing me to realestateshow.com, which has improved the quality of my virtual tours and lowered my costs and for being a real genuine human being. 

Hi Jeff, 

For some reason I am unable to view your video.  I hope your day was wonderfully Blessed.  

 

 

Thank you Jeff for such a heart warming video. The feeling is mutual. I have learned so much, and met so many wonderful people here.

I hope you, Rocky and the kids had a great holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving Jeff, Rocky & Tribe

Thanks Jeff!...It's been great knowing you as well ...hopefully one day we shall meet.

Hi Jeff - I've tried several times but have been unable to get your video to play.  A little error message keeps showing that says 'embed'.  Not sure how to work around that.

In any event, I hope you all had a very nice Thanksgiving yesterday!
Ann

Jeff, This is the best Thanksgiving wish! I loved it! I hope you and the gang had a wonderful day, and I love the Santa Clause movies! I too am thankful for AR the people I've met, the people I hope to meet, the things I've learned. Loved the floating head video! It rocked!

Wow! I wish I could respond to each of these comments individually. Turning off the computer for the holiday means comments pile up. But I have read each one and I want to say again, how thankful I am to have found this place. 

Jeff, thank you for all that you do for all of us here on AR.  You are a constant technological inspiration and Rocky is simply an inspiration.  I hope very much to be able to make a difference in her incredible efforts.  Happy belated Thanksgiving to you and your family!

Jeff I am as thankful as you are for the enrichment blogging can bring, and that is not just monetarily speaking. In the end the people we meet who enrich our lives are more important than the business side, at least for me (and I can tell, for you too). One of the Cleveland blogger friends I have made here found the Professor (Dan?) you blogged about a month or so ago. He used his video as his TG post. So of course I thought of you. It shows me how life goes in a wonderful circle and how the Internet, when used well and for the right reasons, can add so much to my life. Thanks for being a part of all that, and my best to your whole family for this hopefully long weekend.

And a happy thanksgiving to you my Technology King. My master of the computer....and of course my Activerain Brother!

All my best on this holiday weekend!

Diane... you are Rocky's angel right now! Thank you!

Carole... I can't wait to meet you in person.

Keith... thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!

Jeff, happy belated thanksgiving to you, and everyday is one to be thankful for.  Great post, and thanks to active rain for the great place to hang out.

This was very touching and so true.   We have so much to be grateful for that one day is not enough.  Happy Thanksgiving! 

Happy thanksgiving to you too.  a couple of days late.  I hope you are thankful that you are not taller.

Happy Thanksgiving to you also. also a couple of days late.  Brought things to a head and make us think about us and people around us.  Thanks for the great video!

I'm behind.... I'm so grateful and thankful for you, Jeff!  You have shared beyond expected your knowledge - and I'm thankful!

Nice video - I appreciated your time. 

Jeff,

I am thankful for so many things.  My son came back from Iraq and all my kids (5) were with us this Thanksgiving.  We indeed are blessed with so much, it's true.

God Bless You,

Brian... thank you.

Myla.. one day is certainly not enough.

Teresa... I am thankful you are not shorter. :)

Margaret... thank you.

Kim... wow, thank you so much!

Fran... I am thankful your son came back from Iraq safely! Wow, how special that must have been! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzBtpLTKWqU

This video embodies all that Thanksgiving is about. It is from Maj. Robert Morgan, in western Iraq. His son's preschool class sent care packages, 11 of them, to the guys at Al Q'aim. Robert said the goodies brightened the Thanksgiving Day for as many as 200 Marines.  

Jeff, it has been a pleasure getting to know you. I am very thankful to have had the opportunity to meet you, and so many others here at AR. I do regret not having the chance to meet you in person yet :)

May your season be joyous.  

Thanks, Lydia. I'm sure that time will come shortly! Happy Holidays to you as well.