Thanks, it's certainly great to be back home HERE with you all! I've missed all the daily going ons, from Lucy's POTD to Kristy's advertures to Karyn et al's pictures of beautiful flowers. BTW, I have a lot of posts to catch up on, but until then, where is Kristy? I am glad to see Kylie posting again :-) The yard (used to be a garden) will have to wait, then I will ask all you 'enablers' to help me, LOL!

I do sentinal beach combing, write down and keep track of everything that washes up on the beach. Years ago I went to Florida for the seabean convention, yes, it's real, every October in Coco beach. One of the attendees works cleaning the beach. She had found a "brick". Threw it in the dumpster at the park. Well, when we found out we all HAD to go and look. So we loaded up in 3 cars, drove across town, PAID to get into the park and proceeded to pull everything out of the dumpster she had thrown in. We were looking at bottles, big chunks of something we tried to break open by dashing it against the parking lot, the "brick", which was a very well-wrapped package of very high grade marijuana. It was pretty stinky and rotten. But did that stop us? Oh no, we all had to smell it, touch it. So here we are, a bunch of old farts in a parking lot, professors, lawyers, nurses, throwing around stuff that had washed up on the beach and playing with a couple of pounds of rotted marijuana. The people at the hotel had a good time watching us but luckily noone called the police. I do not know how we would have explained that one!! Honestly officer, we're out here in the pitch dark digging through a dumpster with a couple of pounds of marijuana because we're at a seabean convention!!! Do you think they would have thrown us in jail or just the nut ward? I gotta make reservations for next year, that's a fun convention. Tally HO!

Sue, the Etap hotel is a few steps below a motel 6...quite a few steps in fact. LOL! The rooms were tiny, which were expected but the floor was really grungy and the toilet/shower area were a one piece porta potty plastic unit that had been put into a corner of the room. It was very small and the floor area by the toilet got soaked when you showered. The shower stall area was barely big enough to turn around in. Now I wish I had taken a picture! Patti, I think the house I used to live in was torn down and a new one put in it's place, there were a lot of new homes there. The town was very small, just one street with one tiny restaurant and a coffin maker. That was it...not even a post office. Stacy, yeah, I think I should've learned after our trip out west. Some of it was fun but for the most part they weren't interested in a lot of it. I've downloaded my pictures and will start posting them. Wish I had taken more videos, they are pretty funny because they are so BAD! LOL!

lobby68, I've seen the meany pros put in their places by assertive posters just telling them they aren't being helpful, or that if they'd read the original post they'd know that buying new/tearing out a wall isn't an option. Or telling someone that isn't being nice that their comments are being ignored because the op doesn't need that kind of help, etc. I also think a few of us call out meannies when they are being that (altho the pros sometimes circle the wagons around their own). So go ahead and post and just don't take any carp from anyone and don't take it personally if someone is mean. We'll try to have your back!