Patience Ladies! We're getting together TOMORROW, Friday, the end of the week! HAHAHAHA. I'm going to set out my camera tonite so I don't forget it. I'm sure we'll never hear the end if we didn't get pics. Who can we get to take them for us? We'll just wander around downtown and ask a kind stranger to do it. Heehee All bundled up in a coat, mitts, put our hood up. It IS Canada, after all! HAHAHAHAHAHAAA

Age is certainly relevant with the individual and it's what you make it. I've been told often that I don't look my age, and I certainly don't act it. When I'm out with my friends I have a great time. One lady asked if I was divorced, and I told her my husband died. She looked at me in surprise and asked how old I was when he died. 62. She was stunned that I was that old, much less older! I was out with a g/f last weekend on a day trip. She took a selfie and it's one of my best pictures ever. If I get the nerve to do the online dating thing, I'll try and crop it. 😃 I do market research and one lady I was calling was perturbed that I was calling so late. She said she's 64 and was heading for bed, (this was at 6:30pm) She sounded much older. Another call, a lady answered, and she said Sure, she'll do my survey, as she's sitting with a glass of wine listening to Il Divo. She was 80. Worlds apart in view.

Hope you've been having a day filled with wonderful memories, Annie. Not much time left, but may I suggest that you spend a few moments being thankful for the many experiences in your years together that have made this such wonderful, and memorable day! Good wishes for good health and happy times in the years ahead. ole joyful

GGrGreGreeGreetGreetiGreetinGreetingGreetings everyone. Again - my thanks to each of you for your good wishes. I m gratified that so many of you chose to offer yours. And I am thankful to those of you who offered personal comments. Thanks Oly. The address I used long ago was ths.gardenweb.com and recently when I want to change, I click on the name of the one I'm using, I move to Google, and the Houzz icon is there. So I guess I'm using the Houzz access now. @carolb_w_fl thanks for the suggestion. Son, who's lived with me for over a year, has one, says it's useful sometimes - but a bit of a nuisance to haul around in between, and I rather agree not so great when hitchhiking. This is my third winter coping with snow, and the cart would be mainly useful in other seasons. @lucille I thought of buying an electric bike a couple of years ago - but didn't. Thinking of buying a car - daughter and son in law who visited last summer found one in Georgia, but we chose not to take it - then. But the eventual almost certain move to the city, at triple current rent before son came, double the current $1,000.+ a bit or more, would be covered if it would allow us to continue living here for six months to a year longer. @martinca-gw I've lived on what was step-uncle's farm for, come March, 20 years, renting this old farmhouse from the purchaser following his death, about 6+ miles from the village where I went to high school and about 12 - 20 miles from London, Ontario, half way between Detroit and Buffalo or Toronto - a couple of hours drive from four of the Great Lakes. Landlord allows space for garden, cultivates it, a few years ago I ran almost a mile of rows, took veggies to a couple of churches I relate to, much smaller recently. Story of car broken in colliision no injuries, loss of licence, hitchhike to village, bus to city, thankful for enabling health, friends advise move to city, thankful can afford it, elsewhere on this thread. @Cherryfizz - Greetings! How have you been? How long ago was it that we met in Windsor, do you remember? It was my first face to face with Gardenweb folks. Have you connected with Dances recently? Were there others beside the three of us? When I see your name, it warms my heart - even though my active forgetter can't remember the real one! Good wishes to all of you for the year ahead. ole joyful