Thanks, MM, for your kind words. Having greatly liked the results of this beard trim makes me willing to shorten it another two inches this month. 

As I do a sliding tug straight down (you fellow long beards know what that is!), I discover that the longest hairs are definitely from the neck beard. They've outpaced the chin beard by more than 1/4 inch since the December haircut. The next trim will even them up again. Perhaps even less will look like even more. 

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.