Got it - thank-you! Looking forward to meeting everyone and enjoying a couple days of 80+ degree weather.

Hi everyone. I’m looking very forward to Sunday! Just trying to arrange seating, etc. I know most of you who are positively coming , but some have responded with “ plan to be there”, or “ hoping to be there”. To help me get my counting straight , it would be really a big help if all of you who ARE coming would simply reply on this post: YES. Any other reply, please email my yahoo address, if you want.

Thank you all so much!

Yes!

I had surgery on my face today to remove basal cells, but it should be healed pretty much by Sunday so that I won't scare people. I'll be the one with a bandaid on my right cheek.

I just hope that I will be able to remember people's names, if there are more than a dozen. Do you have a revised head count?

I'm on pain killers right now, in case I sound odd.

yes!

90% yes.

Yes

And I’ll need “Hello, my two names are” name tags!

We should do a game first with no name tags and try to guess who is who! Lars will just have to observe! ;-)

martinca_gw sunset zone 24

Hi everyone. I’m looking very forward to Sunday! Just trying to arrange seating, etc. I know most of you who are positively coming , but some have responded with “ plan to be there”, or “ hoping to be there”. To help me get my counting straight , it would be really a big help if all of you who ARE coming would simply reply on this post: YES. Any other reply, please email my yahoo address, if you want.

Thank you all so much!

No :(

I travel with DH and he’s going to his NYC clients in November. Hmm, I might have to tag along and go see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.

Sorry if I seem pushy, but may need to borrow neighbors chairs and they’re leaving Thursday. Also, well, you know all the things to get and arrange. At one time it looked like 13. Right now, it looks like 8 if Fun comes. That’s not counting email responders. I wanted rsvps in one spot. So, if you’ve not already rsvp’d here recently..... I confuse easily ...have pity. ;>O :>). TIA!!

YES

YES

yes

(I almost always say "hope to", since I'm very superstitious. It means "yes unless something very unforeseeable happens of which I let know ASAP if humanly possible ".

Marti, I have four folding chairs I could bring if you would like.

Thanks, Fun. May need none, but have my neighbors if we do. Aw bpath :>(. But go and enjoy autumn in NY.

Well, gang, looks like we are a very lucky 13 strong, and I can’t wait to meet each of you.!

see you Sunday.

Perfect weather for a brunch!

Yesterday was hot in Los Angeles - 90-91°, but I think it will be somewhat cooler today.

much cooler-I checked

yesterday was indeed very hot

today normal 22 Celicius

Unless they are mistaken. The weather people

Wonder how it’s going? I have no doubt they are having a great time getting to know each other IRL. Hi Everybody!

I hope you are all enjoying the get-together. Sorry I'm not there, but I've been caught up in automotive drama - just before I left on vacation, my new car was totaled. Traffic on the freeway slowed, I slowed, but the guy behind me did not. It has been a bit of a hassle, but this is the weekend I find the replacement. Have fun for me!

Also wondering here how it's going! A great time being had by all, I hope! We'd love a report, with pictures, if possible.

What was the destination? I'm on the Monterey Peninsula and would have loved to join in; back problems are keeping me at home just now, grrr...

The weather should be lovely. Up here, 300+ miles to the north, it's beautiful, with what we call a California sky.

So, details, please?

Sable

Sorry that you were in an accident, @sealavender. I hope you weren't hurt. Sorry that you are having back problems, @sableincal. We had a lovely time today at @martinca_gw sunset zone 24 house. She served a nice brunch accompanied by mimosas and bloody Marys. Thank you, @martinca_gw sunset zone 24, for sharing your home with us. I enjoyed the afternoon so much and loved meeting everyone attending. I could have talked to everyone for hours longer. We definitely need to schedule another get-together, maybe in the spring before it gets too hot.

Glad to hear this! Hoping for pix?

It sounds perfect!

It sounds wonderful. So glad so many could make it.

Lovely! Wish you had a pic!

It was wonderful, and full of life, and I, indeed, didn't want to leave..))

Lars and Fun2B said it all perfectly

I just wish we could do it again some time. So yes, I hope it's a very good start , with many more meetings in the future

Martinca, you're a terrific hostess, and I can't say enough "thank you" for everything you've done

And I discovered another hidden gem next to where I live-it's an exceedingly pretty neighborhood I never knew about somehow, while I visited the city itsellf numerous times, and it's one of our favorite cities, and I thoought I knew it..

So great meeting all of you. I vastly enjoyed the company.

I just read that sableincal and sealavender couldn't make it..so sorry about that, and hope things are better now.

Photos anyone?

Well said, Lars, and it was great meeting you and everyone! Heartfelt thanks to Martinca for hosting and such a wonderful afternoon at her beautiful home!

It was a lovely afternoon. Martinca was the perfect hostess and her home is beautiful. It is always fun to put faces to screen names.

Sorry to disappoint, but no pics.

So great to hear!

As the kids use to say, “it didn’t happen if there are no pictures”.

Happy to see it was a good time!

I guess it shows that most at the meet up came of age before the digital age, because none of us had our phones out or attempted to photograph anything! We were all present and enjoying the moment in real time.

Maybe the better saying would be "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"!

;-)

It was a lovely afternoon, and Martinca was was an amazing hostess. Her house is lovely with beautiful views of rolling hills from her patio.

Other than Lars and April, no one looked at all as I imagined them. It will be nice to have faces to go with names.

I'm glad I made the trip down (and happy to be home again safely and without undue traffic). Now if only we can get the Northern California folks on board for a get together up here!

We did have a great time. This was my first get together and it won’t be my last.

I’m so glad you all had a good time. and it is fun to finally meet people you know!

I have wondered if people are for the most part as others have envisioned them. What fun to get to put faces (and complete human beings!) to the names we've come to know. I'm glad y'all had this lovely opportunity.

"...we had brunch on the terrace beside the pool..." And it's November! That's life in southern California!

Am imagining the faces, the views, and the food (yum). I can also imagine some wonderful conversations as you all got to know each other. Pictures would have been nice, to help us non-attendees live vicariously. Maybe next time?

And thanks for the reports!

Sorry I didn't make it...believe it or not mtnrd and I consulted and considered meeting up and joining you guys, but it wasn't going to happen...CA is just too long a trip from the east coast, though we certainly enjoyed toying with the idea.

I've been to meet ups before and know how delightful they are. So glad you had a good time.

It was fun, funny, interesting...I had a blast! Not surprisingly, I think, everyone was great...not a stinker in the bunch. :>)!!! I mean, 12 strangers...you never know for sure. ;>O. Oh, and purses were properly placed and phones were out of sight. Ha! The oddest/ funniest moment came when I dragged Lars into the living room for his professional opinion of some drapes, aka “ball gowns”. Luv r golden actually climbed the latter , playing the part of Scarlet O'Hara ( in reverse) to help us envision them.! He shared a few of his designs, and, wow is he talented! Just such a lovely group. We missed Jill . Best wishes to you for your mother’s quick recovery. A few pics... not what you’d like to see most, I know.

The rest of us were sitting outside chatting and all of a sudden we see Martinca marching through the dining room with a step ladder ...

If we were doing yearbook quotes ... Martinca would be voted ... "Most likely to get us all in trouble!"

;-)

As long as she didn't make us paint.....heeheehee

Only because I’ve not chosen the color, Spanish....and Chispa, there lots of truth to that. :>).

I have been waiting to hear all about your get-together! I am so glad it was such fun and I am not at all surprised that there were no 'stinkers' there-of course not! We all comprise an incredibly marvelous group of people! ;-)

ETA: painting, huh? Perhaps we could organize renovation get-togethers! I have lots of jobs you all could do! Ha.

My couple of GW get togethers have always been tremendous fun. Love to hear the details so we can enjoy vicariously.

It sounds lovely and I really wanted to come. Hopefully there is another some day!