Good morning-Ladies I have let my secretary go, forgiven myself & moving onward & upward. Sending you all coffee & hugs this morning. What a special group of ladies we are! Welcome, Annie. I love your GW name. How did you come up with it? You can see what an imagination I have with the one I have! You will have a delightful time here, I am sure. This is post #100 so I am starting a new one with baskets sent & received (I hope I don't have to bring Hope back for this). Melissa-I want you to know you made my day with what you sent me yesterday. It had been a downer before that. Thanks so much. You are really doing what our theme was for this RR ASPIRE TO INSPIRE BEFORE WE EXPIRE I needed that inspiration yesterday, for sure! Blessings, Margaret

all is calm right now here on the home front my step mother is with her family till they get her weight down sugar leveled out & the sodium level up bit . need to get my yard mowed today it is warm out there . don't need a heat stroke :( susan : so sorry you can;t be with us for awhile :) but if & when you ever want to come back in for trades please feel free to do so :)) Beth I believe you are the only one of the group that has not Hosted since we started the group & would like to ask if you would like to take on the SEPT swap theme ?? can you let me know ? SANDLAPPER/JEANNE I don't think you have hosted either right ? Is there anyone in our group who has not hosted a swap yet ?? I need to get my paper work up-dated . here is what I have so far correct me if I'm wrong . or if you feel you will not be able to do your monthly swap . wish everyone a safe weekend susie JANUARY ---KLICKITAT--- FRUITCAKE SWAP FEB-----LLBEAN------VALENTINES SWAP MARCH---DIZZYDAFFODIL----butterfly swap APRIL----AMYBABYBOY---EASTER LILY SWAP MAY----RAGGEDYANNE---PLANT SWAP JUNE---LIL_GREEN_THUMB---PATRIOT SWAP JULY --SKOHLER---INDEPENDENCE DAY SWAP AUG---SASSYD---COOKBOOK SWAP SEPT --- OCT---LUNAMOON-- HALLOWEEN SWAP NOV--SGUANZON-- DEC-- CEDARNEST--- XMAS HOSTED 06-07 LIST AMYBABYBOY3 /AMY -----------APRIL 07 BETH_B_KODIAK/BETH ??????????? BRITNEYGRAN/SHIRLEY-------SEPT 06 CEDARNEST/NANCY-----------DEC 07 DANCINGMOON/TRISH ----- TAKEN TIME OUT DEBBYA/DEBBY------------------NOV 06 DIZZYDAFFODIL/SUSANN-------MAR 07 EARTHLY DELIGHT/MARYANNE-----DEC 06 GIVERNY4ME/SUSAN--------------TAKEN TIME OUT KLICKITAT/JULES------------------JAN 07 LIL_GREEN_THUMB/KIM ------ JUNE 07 LLBEAN/LAURA----------------FEB 07 LUNAMOON/JENELL----------OCT 07 MELLEN/MARYELLEN--------APRILL 06 MMQCHDYGG/TINA ???????? NYVOICES99/ANITA---------JUNE 06 RAGGEDYANNE/ANNIE------MAY 07 REMY/REMY-----------------OCT 06 SANDLAPPER_ROSE-------- SASSYD/DIANE--------------AUGUST 07 SGUANZON/SUE------------NOV 07 SKOHLER/SUSIE ------------JULY 07 THERESA24/THERESA-------MAY 06 VEEJAY11/CAROL -----------JULY 06 ZABECC/ELIZABETH ??????

Welcome BB! I have a friend on Prednisone for asthma too - it makes it harder to lose BUT you can lose (she is too) Wow you would have loved the old WW diets - that was exactly what they did and there were not nearly the choices they have now. The only problem I have with the rigid diets (and menus can be found in most Women's magazines) is that they tell you to eat for example 4 ounces of salmon for lunch and a half cup of green beans. OK so where does the rest of the salmon go? Do you toss the other green beans? There are no salmon or green beans mentioned for the rest of the week. So my suggestion (and it is worth what you paid for it) is to make a list of the foods you want to eat and would fit the plan you want to be on. For example - breakfast for me is cereal OR a Weight Watchers bagel with ff butter. That is what I like and eggs don't make me feel full. You might be different. Snack is an apple or pear. Something I can come in and eat on the run when hunger hits - high fiber. Lunch will be a lean protein with a low starch veggie. If I get snacky in the afternoon I'll grab some carrots or another pear. That leaves a lot of room for a nice evening meal (low on starches and always a steamed veggie) or a leaner meal and a trip to McDonald's for a cone or hot fudge sundae. If I go out for lunch or supper I choose something in the 300 calorie range and it does not take long to learn what you can eat. Evening snack is frozen fruit. A whole bag is usually about 150 calories and I don't eat the whole bag. This works for me for now. It might not be a diet you would like but your diet is out there. Hi gang! Well I had spaghetti wars yesterday. Made it for supper and long after I had my bowl it started singing to me so I popped it in a bag and froze it. Today there are Snickers bars and cookies leftover from a teen class (only 3 showed up - sunny day). They are getting bagged and taken to the basement. Every day is another battle. We are having a false summer here and I want to plant my stuff outside so badly! But I won't - not until after mother's day and that is taking a chance. We have had late frosts many times before. I went to a used booksale yesterday along with 351 other people in line. It was huge and I bought a lot of gardening books. I checked out the diet books too but nothing jumped up. Spent my $20 (all I allowed myself to take) and got out of there. There were people buying hundreds of dollars worth of books. Most were $3. I found a stack of Country living gardening mags from the 90s for $1. Lots of good ideas there. Well must go start the day - stay strong everybody (and especially) Kathy

Linda, I'm late too, and I wasn't even making jam so I don't have a good excuse. Happy Birthday, I hope it was perfect! Annie