I'm so sorry to here about the direction you're headed... it's not an easy path to follow. BTDT. Please remember to take care of yourself too. One thing for your DH's soothies. My DH could only have liquids but had a dairy allergy. Grainlady suggested adding Great Lakes Gelatine - Collagen Hydolysate to his fruit or meat smoothies to add protein and needed amino acids... in the green colored can. I got it thru' Amazon from whichever vendor was cheapest because it's not inexpensive.... about $18 a big can... which lasts for awhile. My best wishes for you this holiday season. Kate

Evan, you're too kind! You know how much I love frogs..As much as I love my citrus,....lol Thanks buddy That's a cute one.. Monica, that's crazy..All that distance but far worth it. I love how the RED leaves come out and change color over time..It even pretty with or without the flowers..It's a keeper I'd say. Boston is wonderful. I take time once every month or so to take a train in by myself and just walk around. It puts me in my own world..Guess, that's weird..lol As long as I don't spend money by staying out of the stores I do fine. Getting ready to bring the Hoya in(((. They don't tolerate the 40's at night and wet and cold usually kill mine. So I have to make sure they are clean of bugs and then in the sunny room they will go. How much I am going to miss mass watering them with a hose easily.... Laura, that beach looks pretty nice. Wish I had time to go one last time before fall sets in, it's hot today and no time..(90's today..I'm afraid this kind of weather will not come back after it leaves tomorrow...

I think since Thursday or Friday Houzz has been extremely problematic for me as well. I feel somewhat better knowing others are having the same issue but really this is just so frustrating. I was having trouble as well and decided to log out hoping all would right itself. When I signed back in, I noticed that I had none of the topics I follow and couldn't remember how to find them again. Nothing was working properly. I wonder where I will see this post if at all. You are not alone.

Thats a good tip. Although what a bizarre implementation on their part!!! I think what is happening is that they have blurred the line between Forum (a/k/a Topics) and Discussions. All that really exists is discussions with keywords. Forums don't really exist anymore. It is all just keyword searches. It would be nice if the search bar had a way to search for text strings OR keywords. For example if I search for "clematis" (because I know there is a Clematis "forum"), I come up with discussions that have "clematis" in the subject line of all discussions. Only the 4th discussion down shows me the Clematis forum is listed in the list of keywords for that discussion. I see the problem is they have no way to represent a "forum" in the search results. So that's why they should have a separate way to search for just forums/keywords. (former software designer frustrated by bad software design)