Dear Goddess... alright, you guys are making me cry now! All of this put together to raise my spirits... LOL and it's doubling as an amazing birthday present! Nikki, that box did very much raise my spirits! It had some manicure items in it as well as a beautiful bird feeder along with the other goodies! I am so looking forward to Cliff hanging the bird feeder for me! I am starting that book tomorrow! And my daughter has made sure I know that she intends to read it as soon as I finish! She's been wanting to read it and is really excited! Thank you so much again! I received another card today as well as two more boxes! Alana, dear friend! You card and the wonderful wishes inside brought me both a smile and tears! And the Cathedral Bells you included are going to be awesome! Yes, I do have my husband and sons that will plant for me. I can't wait to see it in bloom! Linda... you were the mastermind behind this! (HUGS) You are such an amazing friend! To organize something like this to bring my spirits up! And it was much needed after the news that this is about as good as it's going to get... according to the doctors. I got your box with those AWESOME knitted slippers! LOL, I love the last pair you sent me, I wear them often! Now I have another pair to enjoy! Good thing, the floors in this house have been COLD lately! And all those seeds and the handmade seed envelopes! LOL and the yummy Hersey's Kisses! And sweetie, your note continued the tears that Alana's card started! Dan!! That card was so wonderful! LOL, good thing I saw the instructions or I would have cut it up! And those precious pillows that you made for me!! OMG! I was just stunned that you'd made them! I have them in my favorite chair right now! They are perfect and give me some springtime inside! And the book on Mozart! He is one of my favorite composers! I cannot wait to read through it! And all the YUMMY candy!!!! That box is a cold, dreary day just waiting to be taken advantage of! I have really had a difficult time adjusting my thinking. The first part was a particularly bitter pill to swallow- that there is nothing else they can do. That this is as good as it's going to get. Then I remembered something I'd forgotten... 25 years ago they told me that was as good as it would get- I could either have a surgery which, at that time, would put me immediately back into the wheelchair I'd just clawed my way out of... or have 3-5 pain filled years to walk before I returned to that chair. I have spent the last 25 years doing the 'impossible'. I walked on my own two feet. And I am STILL doing that. I carried the weight of pregnancy with five children. I gardened and I cleaned and I cooked- all with my own two legs. Still can't play basketball... still can't run two miles each day as I'd love to be able to do... but.. I remembered all of those things they kept telling me I couldn't do. That I wouldn't do. That could not be returned to me medically. I remembered that the Lady and Lord continued to Bless me, continued to give me the use of my legs. That I had literally spent 25 years defying what doctors told me I would not have. And I remembered who I am. I'm still very limited. At the moment. I still can't bend... but I have pots the boys will lift to a table for me and two to-die-for raised beds that my gorgeous husband and my children and my in laws built me last spring- a LOT of love went into those beds along with the cinder blocks, dirt, compost, etc. I will find a way to sit on the edges and reach in enough to tend my plants. I have children who do their chores and keep my house for me. I have a husband who has become one heck of a cook to help me in the kitchen. I have a family who loves me and who believes as I've taught them (the children at least) to believe- we are the only ones who can limit ourselves. And I have my friends. Both in RL and on here. Friends that have cared enough to band together to make me laugh and cry and smile and remember that even in the depths of winter, all is not lost.. it's just life slumbering, waiting to re-awaken to it's glory. You are all such an AWESOME Blessing. Thank you, not just for the boxes and cards- but for being the loving, caring people that you are... and for being my friends.

I am a definite "no" for this style. I particularly don't like the one with the "screened ceiling" or whatever that was inside the kitchen. I hate to admit this but it reminds me a bit of a hoarder's kitchen.....I would wake up every day and feel visually assaulted. I admit that I am on the other side and fairly OCD...I like things so monochromatic and clutter-less that at times my friends have commented that it looks like no one actually works/plays/lives in my house. I think I am getting better though (wink wink). But that's what makes things like this forum so interesting to me--so MANY different tastes. I love seeing (most) of it. Even if it's not my style. It reminds me that there's always another point of view. I do agree with J. Fong though--why the overt haters? Can't you just dislike it without attacking someone else's taste? I am not sure why someone would feel the need to send him such angry messages. While NMS (not my style), I don't think it's insensitive or blasphemous or violent or offensive.....it's just not my style.

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Strange, starting last night, my bookmarked gardenweb links no longer work. When I click on any of them, they take me to the same Houzz Page, which also shows me as not signed in. This morning I tried the links to the three gardenweb boards I visit and none are working. Last night, it was just happening with one. Now this morning, it happened with this board. Im using my same iPad I always use, I haven’t changed anything, haven’t cleared my cache or reset my iPad that would’ve logged me out of everything. Basically I haven’t changed anything, but boom, my gardenweb links stopped working. I started to type in www.gardenweb.... and the gardenweb link to this board popped up in my history, and when I clicked on it, it brought me here. Phew! But when I click on my bookmark link, it takes me to Houzz. I wonder why all of a sudden my bookmarked links are now redirecting me? Last night when I was having trouble accessing a different board when my bookmarked link kept sending me to Houzz, I managed to find it by coming here first, with my bookmarked link, then from here, I then looked for the main gardenweb board menu and and found the board listed there. I then bookmarked it again. That new bookmark still takes me to gardenweb whereas the bookmark I’ve had since I joined years ago now only sends me to a Houzz page (not even the Houzz version of the board I’m trying to visit. edited to add, my new bookmarks this morning now don’t seem to work either. If I can’t bookmark my favorite boards anymore, I’m done with Gardenweb/Houzz unfortunately. I visit here frequently on a daily basis, but if it takes me several minutes to try to find my favorite boards b/c my saved bookmarks no longer take me to them, then I give up. And the weird thing is, when I click on my bookmarks now, it takes me to Houzz, but it’s just a random Houzz location, with tons of unrelated threads from different boards.