Indeed, many many welcomes, Julie -- and feel freel to join the idyll threads -- you'll find that sometimes we all get busy with events in our lives, major and minor -- so that the posts slow down to zero & then they pick up to 75 miles an hours...pls dont take offense if you dont get feedback from each of us -- it's not at all a slight. I hear the echo of the refrain of never be "too busy to live" -- and that means our kids, our families -- and our friends -- No matter how long the friends are off elsewhere, we think of them and their families all the time and wish them well. Good speed on your journey, 'bug! --So come on over to the #thread -- you'll see (if you havent already) that a lot of us have brick edgings and paths too -- Fall is a great time for projects. I look forward to chatting about it all with you, Julie! -Cindy

Haahahahaa! Karen this is SO funny. I'm bursting into laughter reading these posts again, and remembering writing and reading them at the time. Well done! And my favourite part about Martha Stewart dropping in with her dish towel parachute!!! WAY too funny!

Thanks for all your hard work Karen! Can't wait to read it in its entirety. Jodi-

Without Danielle, and certainly without Danielle and Teresa, why would Bravo keep the NJ show on? Oh gosh I hope Kim G isn't becoming a regular. Did you see how wimpy she was on the 2nd half of the reunion show when everybody called her out for one thing or another? I wonder just how embarrassed she was when the pole-dancing experience had an instant replay! (Actually, I wonder how embarrassed her son was!) And I do believe that Lynn on the OC housewives show WAS spaced out many times. I think she copped to using some recreational drugs. The footage of her with her husband and kids could have been subtitled with one word throughout it Floormat. The family should go on Dr. Phil.