This has to be one of the strangest, baffling thread I have read on GW since joining more than 10 years ago, made all the more baffling by receiving and email from digginginthedirt. An email that she sent me, telling me about this thread started by Idabean and telling me that I am missed on the forum. Digginginthedirt, thank you for informing me about this thread, and I didn't respond to your email as it stated that I couldn't respond to it directly as you didn't want your email revealed, so I assumed that you didn't want a response from me. At any rate, I can not fathom why I would be missed on this forum since I rarely post here except in the spring about my annual spring plant swap that I have hosted for more 7 years. After the swap, I check in the forum for about a week or 2 to respond to anyone that had posted on the swap thread about the swap and then I'm gone till the following year. I rarely even check in on this forum after that point, until the next spring. So I'm wondering if I have been confused with someone else. As for your OP Idabean. I can't even begin to figure out where you got the idea that I was having any back surgery this past Spring, let alone when I would have posted anything about having any back surgery this past year, because I never did post that. It's been several years now since I had spine surgery and I sure didn't have any last spring. The last time I posted on this forum was last April. I posted an apology for not being able to host my annual spring swap last spring. Specifically stated "life getting in the way" and nothing that I could do to change things and that it couldn't be helped and hoped everything would be back to normal and there would be a swap next year. . I never said anything about any health issues, surgeries of any kind, least of all "back surgery" and it's beyond me to figure out how what I said, Idabean, could have been misconstrued to mean I said I was having back surgery. Maybe you have me mixed up with someone else? It definately wasn't me that had any back surgery. Sometimes life gets in the way of things. You know what they say about the "best laid plans of mice and men".... At any rate, I'm fine, no back surgery, usually post on this forum in the spring for the swap, and then gone again until next year for the swap. Post on various GW forums when I am inclined to do so, which ones? It varies, as new ones peak my interest and others wind down for a while. Thanks, though, for thinking of me, concern for me, but I'm still thinking that you have me confused with someone else that was having back surgery or some other type of surgery. Fran

I think shannon had breast cancer, she was indeed very positive . I was wondering about her also recently. I still wonder about jonmari too.

Oh geez amy, slap me upside the head, will you? I've been so overloaded and doing more glimpsing that focusing. I did the same thing, similar screen name, not Molly. I just sent her an email to let her know her online friends care and are inquiring after her. Didn't feel comfortable suggesting she come back and respond on the forums, figure being an old timer here, she'll come back when she's ready/able. ;-) If she doesn't post here but I do hear back via email, if there's anything Molly wants to pass along I'll let you know.

There are so many that do not post any more, and I often wonder how they are. I pulled up the KT recipes the other day and saw so many that are no longer with us.