Some of the names may change, but the level of enthusiasm remains the same! And even though a few of us may come and go from time to time, as life issues changes, we never forget... Happy Thanksgiving... I'm so grateful for the wonderful people here who have helped me, from my humble beginnings with one Minerva, through a collection that grew... often through the help of friends. I'm thankful for so much generosity, so much friendship, and I offer my best wishes to all of you and your families for a wonderful Holiday Season filled with love, joy, and hope for another year of happiness and wealth of human spirit. Kristi, though I wasn't present for a while, I thought of you often... as I did many of you... a small family linked through our love of growing! Happy Thanksgiving to you all! :-)

I'm not eating until tomorrow, the girls had dinner at their Dad's today, at my house tomorrow. I made Fatlester's Espresso Brownie Chunk ice cream along with a batch of plain vanilla to go with the blueberry crisp and I finished the cranberry jezebel. Sol's Honey Rolls are baked and the turkey is still in a cooler in the garage, but the sweet potatoes are cooked and ready to get "marshmallowed" tomorrow. The fruit salad is in the refrigerator, the green bean casserole is ready to assemble and the chocolate cupcakes have become turkeys for the kids. Tomorrow I'll roast the turkey, make the mashed potatoes and gravy, construct the salad, bake the blueberry crisp and be thankful. After that trip to the store for the marshmallows that I forgot. I think I have a mental block about those..... Annie

Funny cartoon, Paul! Wonderful table setting, NN. Mara, your socks say that?? :P Same is wished to all of you! I am thankful for many things. One of them is a forum like this with people like you...to share my obsession...er, HOBBY! Wow, the pic came out rather blurry when it is enlarged like that. Oops! The message is clear. =) Enjoy the day!

sandyslopes most of the cause of the down time was lack of a vehicle. My DD was rear ended at high speed and the car was written off. Thank goodness she was not hurt! That left us with one vehicle for her to get to work. Then it took a few days for the techs to transfer my files once the new tower came in. Of course the old lap top had to conk out too lol. I think you will prefer Windows 10 once you get used to it. I already had that version on the old one, at least I don't have to adjust there. What did tick me off was that Houzz would not let me sign back in with Gardenweb. I tried and tried (clearing cookies, changing the URL) but a page kept coming up that Houzz had redirected too many times. My lack of tech skills will come into play when I try install an email program and migrate the files!!