Merry Christmas everyone! ❤️ Spencer you are missed! Take care...have a great new year!

Merry Christmas to all of the spencer family. Mr. Mogs & I celebrate every occasion, and sometimes every moment.

I truly love each of you and wish you warmth, safety, peace and outbursts of uncontrollable laughter.

Moggie! Hi sweetie, How are you? I'm so glad to see you. I hope this New Year brings great things for you and Mr. Moggs. Take care of yourself too... XO (((Hugs))) to you both!

Merry Christmas! :)

Glad to see people here are still checking up on things...licksch's thread seems to have disappeared.... :(
Moggie.....how are you and Mr.?
I hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas....both Christmas Day and Christmas season, celebrated in a meaningful and joyful way.

@marjie, are you on an ipad? If you go through the Houzz app, you can access Licksch's thread...she's been having issues with it.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/displaying-objects-in-small-home-dsvw-vd~888170

be sure to bookmark it too. :)

Only works on the app though...

No, I don't have an ipad, and when I clicked on the link you posted, it did the same ol' "page not found".

I know Marjie, for some reason, Houzz took it out of circulation...so to speak. :(

I contacted houzz and asked about it....houzz seems to be on vacation.

Hmmm...
Ladma, I also inquired of houzz what happened. I think the response I got was not a personal one-that is, the computer chose a response that most closely fit the question. When my further questions did not fit their available responses, that was the end of the communication.

If there were inappropriate responses/comments on the thread, I don't know why the commenter was not warned or banned or something. I.e., why couldn't the thread itself have stayed, and the offending comments (I don't recall having seen any, really) simply deleted? Obviously, it was a very popular long-lived thread, so there are many of us who will miss licksch's art and home and garden photos.

Makes no sense...? I hope Licksch can get some answers..

Happy Happy New Year EVERYONE!!!

Hi LB, great seeing you! :) Hope all is well with you and yours. :)

Just checked in for a sec. How Happy I am see my dear houzz buddies! (Makes me smile.)

Hi Moggie! :) Lots of ((hugs)) to you and Mr.Moggs! :)

Ditto what Zaz just said Moggie!

:)

Wow, thisl thread is still running! I don't get time to look at everything, and it suddenly popped up. Happy New year, a month late!

We have been alternately traveling and redecorating. Nice shiny guest room, cleared of a mountain of boxes of papers. But what do I do with the remaining eight boxes of assorted junk... They have been moved to my bedroom, the only incentive to get rid of them, but it's so tedious, going through old files in case there is a document that has to be saved. I don't think there is a quick way of doing this, and only I know what to keep. I commandeer GD to tear up paper while I work through the files. The shredder died from overwork. But we are winning.

The travel was good too. We just got back from a 4 day trip to Ooty, a hill station in the Nilgiri mountains in South India. The plains are hot, but as you climb an incredibly steep and twisty road the coconut palms and banana plantations give way to slender supari palms and then to jungle. This is a high tropical rain forest, and some of the best high grown tea in the world is grown here. The tea plantations look like chenille comforters thrown across the steep hillsides, terraced where it is very steep. And it is cool, even chilly. In fact except for the fierce sun (I lived in sunblock! ) it is very English, especially when it rains. The houses look like Swiss chalets though the newer ones are modern blocks. Some are grandeur in miniature, with porticoes and verandas and pretty porches. English imports are daisies, dandelions, elder, roses and apples. They sit oddly with the more exotic rain forest plants.

We stayed with a friend of D2's, a wealthy bachelor who travels non stop and has houses everywhere. Palatial living which was fun for a few days but not good for our waistlines, we have had several lunches and dinners that collectively had more calories than I could count. The hill people walk a lot and stay trim, or maybe they don't eat between these gargantuan meals!

Back home to clear the backlog of cartons and to welcome my sister and her husband for a 3 week stay. He is touring forts in India with a fortress study group, and she is going to chill with us. We will tap our various relatives for access to their clubs, as our Defense club is not open to foreigners without exhaustive paperwork. Otherwise we will eat frugally at home, mindful of our expanding waistlines,

I don't understand houzz. Depo's comment showed up in my inbox, but nothing else from January. I don't get it.

Moggie? Any update you want to share? Was Christmas good for you? Thoughts and prayers coming your way, as always. <3

margie, (and all). Thank you so much for asking. Mr. Moggs is home and struggling to regain his muscle strength, depends upon his walker and is officially disabled on paper. I will not settle for such a dismal diagnosis. ( This has sounded to me as a translation for, "Give up.") Nope!

We work on exercise. Now, he can get into the car and we make small trips and joke about him promising not to hang his head out of the window. He is still brilliant, hysterically funny and very patient. He gets a bit stronger everyday.

Our lives have changed so much, almost clarified in a way. We have learned who our friends truly are. Wow, my Mom was right, you can count them in very small numbers.

Our Holidays were special times with our children, for the most part .. Food, laughs and many hugs.

I love that so many here have shared their own struggles and giggles, which is what drew me to this special group. Am thinking about painting again. (Someday,)

Enough about me, I miss you all., Will keep checking during the odd hours.

Smiles.

Ahhh moggie, good to hear from you. Mr. will gain his muscle strength back, it just takes time. Mine still hasn't gained his back in his leg from when he tore his quadriceps tendon last April, and he has been going to physical therapy 2 Xs a week! We wish it can happen overnight, but alas... Keep giving him the tender loving care you have been and lots of nutritious food, and he will get there! And for goodness sake, take care of your self!

Hi Maggie - we miss you too! Hey, don't all DH's hang their head out of car windows ????

Great to get an update! Yes, be hopeful and patient. It is easy to lose and hard to gain back muscle as we age. And so good to hear he remains in good spirits. Love to you both...cannot recall if you are on my card list, but (FYI everyone) I am making cards and sending them out this weekend! Anyone NOT on my list, email me at schlickstudio.com with your address, to get a card.

So nice to see you all here! My best to all! Be well! Miss you all!

We miss you too LB! Hope you're doing well. :)

Thanks for the update, moggie. Yes, it is true that a change in circumstances often is very revealing. I'm glad to hear of his status as "Improving", even though it's slower than you would like. Itemizing the "grateful list" can change, but there can always be a grateful list. We are cheering both of you on as you soldier on. Keep us posted!

I truly like all of you. Recently in the dark of night, I come here, read and smile.

Really do want to know what is going on in each of your lives?

Heaven just got a lot more interesting, didn't it?

I am sad to hear this. Spencer was a dynamo and one all aspired to befriend. Her attitude towards what's truly important (helping others and making the best of situations) is what I'll remember about her.

And, I will never be able to see leopard-printed anything, or rococco furniture, or yurts, (that goes way back!) or hear the song "Paint it Black" without a wistful smile on my face. Thanks for the laughs and the memories, SB.

That is true, sam. This is the first thread I was on that turned into a regular, fun group. I am so, so sorry about Spencer.

I just recently found out about our Dear Spencer. I am so sad. She had great design sense and knew her style!. I got her. I am so very sorry that I never got to see her of which she invited us several times. We couldn't wait to help her here on houzz and I got excited to see where her creativity would take her next! I am so happy that I wore leopard pants in honour of her, when many of us met in Nashville where she had tried to join us. I had talked to her several times and felt she was a good friend. She is missed! My love to her family!

Seriously, licksch and depo, do people even read ANY of the previous comments?! smh

Lol, Licksch, Depo!!!

If they don't read any comments, then why bother to comment? I would figure I'm just repeating what someone else already said--and they probably said it better as well. (That's what I always tell my mom when she says I should write a book...who wants to read a book that doesn't have anything new in it?)