Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. C'mon In.

Ah...the initial, grand opening post. I always find these hard to do.

As the title states, welcome to what will be basically my communications center for all who visit my Ron Francis collection website and/or those who just happen to be fans of Ronnie and his quite outstanding career in hockeydom.

The idea for this here place came to me just a couple of days ago, when I was musing to myself that I really do more blogging than message boarding these days. And apart from e-mail, that makes communicating about collecting and potential item/card trades rather limited. So, I thought "Why not a blog that can serve as not only an updates and news page (which I've been wanting to do for my Dieci site for sometime), but also a trading forum?". Henceforth this here place.

Chose today (January 28th) for the Grand Opening because it is, very appropriately enough, the anniversary of the Carolina Hurricanes' Ron Francis Night, where they retired Ron's trademark #10 and had it ascend towards the rafters of the RBC Center.

Speaking of that #10, "Dieci" is, simply enough, the Italian word for "ten", since Ronnie is of Italian descent, like a good number of Sault Ste. Marie's denizens.

I hope, as always to meet some new people through this place, and of course, pick myself up a few more additions to my ever expanding collection. ;)

Current Music: "Motherland" - Fullmetal Alchemist's Third Closing Theme