Bob B wrote:
Triibeard - congratulations on your 39 years minus 1 day anniversary! I'm impressed (and a little jealous) that you've kept a beard for so long. What was your beard color back then, same color as your hair? We must be about the same age since I was starting my senior year in college in 1976. I grew my first beard a couple years after college and kept it for a couple years. It was dark brown (as was my hair then). Wish now that I had done as you did ... BobĀ 
Thank you, Bob. My beard was dark brown as you can see here. It started whitening in my mid-to-late thirties. Head hair has always, and still is, sandy blonde to brown. Snow started at my ears and moved down, not up, and I still get asked why I'm dyeing my hair and not my beard (I do neither!).

kplandes wrote:
Almost congratulations. Wow, today would be the worst day ever to do something crazy with your beard, at least until a year from today, that is. Probably best if you just stay inside.
No plans for any beard craziness -- unless it's a tie-up or bead threading. Certainly nothing involving a sharp object. The Nevada Day Beard Contest is just around the corner, and I'll be at my longest since entering the first time in 2013. After the contest... maybe a trim.



Triibeard's Thirty-NINE years of being bearded    (The recent journey from a short- to a long-beard)
Introducing LEGO-Sheriff Triibeard     (The origin story for our polymeric polychromatic hero)
Sheriff Triibeard and The Case of the Missing Beard Balm   (In search of that scoundrel RiffRaff)
Sheriff Triibeard and the Hermit Hoarder    (Consequences of acquisitiveness)

In a world of shorn faces, it is our privilege to offer those around us the exquisite opportunity to know a gentleman with a beard.