Hi! Been a very long time. Have some time off of work, looking for old friends to send me game invites. REALLY rusty on my games, so should help your stats. I have missed everyone *1*

Artful Dodger: wow- that would be cool..normally, I would say "come on down here where it's warm! " to people in the winter, but we had snow here in Houston, TX last Friday

Art- thanks : )
Scarlet- we drove from Houston to Illinois and spent time with my sister and family there, then took my sister with us and drove to my other sisters in PA (near Philadelphia) and spend a day there , then got her and her niece on the road with us too and drove up to our dad's house in upstate NY- just below the Adirondacks and had Thanksgivine and spent the weekend all together up there..lost of cousins came by and gave me a surprise birthday party and then drove everyone back home and headed back to Texas. We went thru the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky Horse country..was a beautiful drive. Not a speck of snow all the way, but today it is snowing in Houston of all places

Dan- my birthday gift was a Taylor guitar

Artful Dodger: Hi! Sorry to worry you. I have been working alot more recently and so haven't kept up here like I normally would have, so my vacation days were used up.
For my birthday this year, my husband took me on a road trip. Was gone for 10(?) days and no internet access...actually a nice break...so am back...sorry for the time outs and any worry I caused anyone.
Thanks for caring Dan

MidnightMcMedic: um..me who??? I'm not sure the name rigs a bell....hm....anyone know this meddy [person???


*sits and waits for chocolate to come flying my way*

rod03801: oh whoops! was thinking I was on the members board

Tuesday: sure ...ask away...

never mind...found your post...and answered..

Tuesday: awesome Tuesday and I think it's a great choice! I know you'll do fine whatever you decide to do
and hey, anytime you want practice...you can decorate a cake for me..just to diversify a little
keep in touch lady!

Tuesday:

Tuesday: nice to see you on here!

Eriisa: oh how sad...thanks for letting us know...yes, a good person to play and a very hard person to beat! May he rest in peace.....

WellyWales: how very sad. Thank you for letting us all know.

Stevie: thanks : )

Pbarb2: the pleasure has been mine

And thanks for the update on Josetta : )

Pbarb2:

heavenlyemma: thanks for letting us know, Emma. Please let her know that I miss her very, very much!

Stevie: yes, she is missed. Thanks for letting us know. Let her know how much we think about her next time you talk, please : )

Stevie: I'm glad to hear you're ok...sorry for all your troubles... hang in there, and don't worry about what anyone on here says about you...there's lots of us that know you're a good guy..take care

Lamby: thanks Lamby!

Lamby: thanks for checking on her.....and please let us know if you hear from her and let her know how much she is missed and thought of here, ok? Thanks!

Eriisa: that's the first place we went for Gumbo! We checked into our hotel and then I looked at him and said Eriisa says we have to go to Seaport first thing..It was about a block down the road : ) And Yep! It was good...suprisingly, some of the best gumbo we had there was at the House of Blues..imo...
Cariad- I've heard about that old guy too...small world!

bumble: ROFL!! Oh I think that will be her new name!!!
I hate oysters too, but I love the other stuff...

bumble: yeah...the Acme Oyster House in New Olreans IS a must- no matter what time of the day, there's a line to get in stretching down the street and sround the corner...it's just off Bourbon Street...on Iberville I think. Famous for it's oysters, also great for gumbo, friend shrimp, jambalaya, beans & rice..all that good stuff.
The other Acme, well Rose can tell you more about that. I hear she gets alot of supplies from there, like battleboats radar shields and that kinda thing

Rose: you went to New Orleans and didn't go to Cafe Du Monde??? I was sure I told you oysters at Acme, hurricanes at Pat O'Reily's and beignets at Cafe DuMonde! I failed you!

bumble: oh well, Dan doesn't do smarm! And I was told in no uncertain terms to keep my mouth shut!

... umm...not sure it's open for business as yet, Eriisa, but we have a place close by my house we can pick some up, great kolaches as well!!

Floose- if you head this way, you may need to pick up linda..you won't have to travel alone and we could use a good cook!! And the party will be better with 4 instead of 3..I'm sure Eriisa has enough pool chairs and cabana boys to go around!

and don't make the same mistake we made when we got pulled over either. We were going down to Sabine Pass to the docks on hwy 87 and got pulled over for going 85 in a 60 mph zone. Dan looked at the officer and pointed to the highway sign and said "Well that sign there says 87", to which the cop replied "you're a regular comedian, aren't you? I suppose when you get back to I-10 you'll go 10 mph too!" Dan just grinned and said "Oh! That's an I?"
We got the ticket

NOT a floosie: hmmm..I couldn't drive all the way to Florida in time to get Floose, BUT I sure as heck can get in my car when she gets here and make the 3-4 hour drive up to Eriisa's pool! All 3 of us aren't working- sure sounds like a party to me!! What do ya say Floose!????!

Linda J: oh not fair! you get the flooz AND bumble? : (

Linda J: LOL Well, I argue with you on that...she IS fit for the nut house...ok, but you better take good care of her!

Linda J: I hear she carries spares with her wherever she goes...I just wrote her and told her to come to Texas..but it's cool if she grabs you on the way...

Fwiffo: no problem-thought you didn't see it maybe : )

Fwiffo: yes...see the link from Caraid below

alexlee: yes- if you go to linda's post in general chat earlier today- you can see what she posted.
I left her a message to post that information here. I thought people might not read GC and would not know about her post. Could you hold off for just a little bit alexlee? : )

goodfoods:

alexlee: I know he had a catering business and had just let it go to go to school. He was really excited about it. He posted about it a while back in his fellowship, Goodfoods' Kitchen

SOmetimes no news is not bad news. Maybe that just means he's safe, and that the internet is still down where he is? That's what I am going to hang onto- thanks for looking Rod!