WOOOOHOOOO I got Kym's box yesterday!!!! BUT I didnt want to post until I could get the photos to work FINALLY today Kodak and I got the software to load, tried to yesterday but what they told me to do didnt work. WOW KYM!!!! OMG, I love it! (You know who got the Chocolate lol!) WOW OH WOW KYM SENT! Strickers! She KNOWS I LOVE stickers LOL. Assorted Jumbo Fairy WALL STICKERS! Chocolate Hearts Candy Reese's Peanut Butter WHOPPERS! Yummy! LOL A Pocket Packet of Hydrangea Tissues (you know these will not be opened!) Ceramic Cow (it got broken) Ceramic Sheep Terra Cotta Garden Marker that Says: Gardens Know the Best Dirt Sun Flower Candle Holder Chocolate Scented Candle from the Chocolate Farm! A Flower Shaped Flower in a tin Flower Pot Decorative Sunflower Stake cute! A grow me flower pot cute The Cutes Little Garden Trowel, trying to figure out how to make this a Keychain! LOL A PIG PLANTER OMG, IT IS SO CUTE, I will get a pic of it by its self it is too cool! A Butterfly Wind chime this is gonna get revised, those darn strings keep coming off, I will be putting fishing line of these! LOL Kym made a BEAUTIFUL HANDMADE CARD she quilted it! YES SHE DID! She also made one for Marie in the Cupid swap! WOW!!! FLOWERS Bulbs: Anomone Dahlia Peaches and Cream Brodiaea Acidanthera Peacock Orchids OMG THANKS I WAS GONNA ORDER SOME! Caladium White Queen Caladium Carolyn Whorton Crocus Kit that includes: Jeanne d Arc, Pickwick, Remembrance SEEDS: Mawnature Sunflower (?) Tomatillo Gigantic (YEA) Dipper Gourd (THANK YOU!!!) Pepper Sigaretta Dolce Pasilla Bajio Culinary Pepper Red Corno di Tojo Rasso Franchi Pepper Giallo di Asti Yellow Pepper Pepper Greek Pepperoncini Tomato Giant Belgium Pink Tomato Red Cup Tomato Pomodona Red Noid Pink Columbine Sunflower Autumn Beauty Mixed Sunflower Feverfew Virgo Hosta Hydrangea Oakleaf Moonflower Bush Noid Coral Bells Mixed Sunflower Kyms Beautiful Handmade Card Close up Even closer of the HAND STITCHING ON THE CARD! This is the paper she included in the package I liked it too! This is one of the many wrapped packages she included in the box!!! SEE THE PIG PLANTER IN THE BACK> WOW OH WOW, I LOVE IT! The cow got broken :(! This is the butterfly Wind Chime and in the corner of the calendar pocket is the hangy things that goes at the bottom, and the fairy's are the Fairy Wall Stickers! This is a close up of the Candle holder it is the green round thing, the Flower Candle is the metal thing on the corner there, and the little cute trowel thing is sitting in it! Isn't it cute?! Kym girl WOW, what can I say? You out did yourself! Thank you so very very much!!! I LOVE THE PIG planter, I will get a better pic of it alone it is so darn cute, I hate the cow got broken what a bummer! AND HERE IS MARIANN'S WREATH!!!!!!!!! :) Fran

Happy B'Day Donna! Hope I'm not too late. Hi Everyone, I know I've been away for some time. Had a very bad bout of winter depression - I think EVERYTHING caught up with me and my yakking energy just died. I've been seeing a psychologist at the hospital to talk about things and I just love her. Also did a pre-registration for a fall course - group therapy, education - to relearn how to think about things. As for weight loss - FINALLY BACK ON TRACK. I'm starting all over again at my start weight of 147 - my goal is anything from 135 - 140 and MAINTAIN (that's the hard part). This is year 3 of my overall weight loss plan. I started at 162 a few years back. I am 5'3", medium frame so any extra weight hurts. My hips still grind, I get back spasms from the weight I carry now so my health is telling me off. Please accept my apologies for being MIA for so long. I had to recoil and recover some more from life. But I'm back to rattle everyone's cage again. As for work - I cannot get office work nor any type of response in Ottawa - Canada's capital city - you have to be 'french' and have a government security clearance of 'secret' to get anything I used to work at. I don't care anymore - Ottawa can get stuffed as far as I'm concerned. I returned to college in the winter and started taking web design courses. I now work at home part time, through hubby's work contact, doing very basic grunt web work. It's a small start that I am very, very grateful for. A long project with a lot more to learn to stay employed. New software support books to read, learn. At least it gives me something extremely important - HOPE. And it's progressive in continued education (e-learning, internet, home study courses...school...). Gosh this has been such a long road for me over the last 5 years coming home from Scotland. I still miss my Mom. It has been 10 months...but seems longer because the Mom I lost left a few years ago when her body started slowing down. I don't feel like crying anymore - I like to remember our fun moments and how much she gave all of us. Being adopted I think I was blessed to have the parents I had. As for my sisters (long story for anyone who doesn't know me...) they are part of my therapy discussions. I have to let them go for my sanity. I love them, always will, wish them happiness in life and pray one of them finds a way to let go of her inner pain. It's a shame but it's the only way right now I can take care of myself. Geez, look at me again, babbling non-stop. I'm working on eating smarter, smaller meals during the day and drinking more water, less coffee. My sleep is still erratic but that's just me. Today we're going up to an unseasonal 25 degrees or about 80F. So I'm heading outside shortly to work in the garden. It's time I got my butt back here, eh? LOL to all of you, Peggy

What a month for you--a birthday AND retirement! Hope you enjoy both to the fullest!!! Happy Birthday, dear girl!

Thank you EVERYONE, and Happy Birthday Sadie! Yes, ice cream was involved. After getting off, Esther met me, and we headed back for a BIG container of Chocolate Almond, "our flavor". :) We had our own nice spoons, and didn't quit till it was all gone. Esther has a picture on her phone, that I hope she will mail later. All in all, I have never been there that long on my birthday before. LOL Moni