Unless they're sugar free, I can't have the candies, but I did bid.

I know, it would have been great to see you again, MX, I had so much fun last year and really needed a break away from this horrid rt.  I was so psyched to get working on the costume, which yes, I know, should have been finished by now, but I still have to make the mantle...just not sure how to do it

So it's closer for me!!  *starts to dance, but waits...as I'm coming from WI and now another year older recently, my mind is already going*

Tell you what, we'll have a Halloween Party, have the pool open, we have a HUGE field behind the house, we can have a BIG bonfire, costume party, the whole bit, and he can come there, along with the family, can do larping, whatever..even set up a haunted trail ride if you want, we have some horses can use them to pull a wagon...anyone...anyone??

Oh so cool, I can't wait, I'm really enjoying this book so much more than I originally thought I would, as much as I do the Dresden Files, which is amazing, I never thought a book would get me going like these do, I love how JB works with the mind and the detail which is put into the book, the way he paints a picture in so many different ways....just incredible!

Still would like to see him here at my place, Shannon and his sisters would be more than welcome to come too, because right now could REALLY use something to cheer me up this coming holiday season after my last year..but then again this would only happen in my dreams.

  Understandable, definitely, but it looks like a gorgeous playground.  When you get volunteers together, you can do anything!!  So glad you had the chance to take part in such a wonderful project.

I tried it with black against the blue and had others complain because it "didn't blend", I'm like geesh....but I changed it and they liked it so that's what I ended up with.    thank you, I really loved doing something for my nephew (which is what it started out to be, so he could enjoy the playground like my kids and his brothers. 

To see him just stand there and laugh, clapping his hands watching, just wasn't fair. And then I thought of the parents with special needs who hadn't been able to take their own kids to the park for a day, and the elderly who needed a place to get away from nursing homes, etc...and that's the result.)

I'd gotten a call from a woman who'd taken her young daughter (her daughter was in a wheelchair) to the park and the daughter went between the horizontal bars (placed at wheelchair width), and for the first time in her life, stood up from her wheelchair and took several steps.  She'd never before done that, and then we got a letter from a guy who'd taken his son up on the ramping system and until that time, never realized his own child had never been that far up off the ground in the open like that.  He loved it.  It's stories like that which make you know that you've accomplished something wonderful.  My own nephew, Camden, actually said "swing" when he went into the playground, the first time he'd ever said that word in his life, and he was 18 at the time.)

Whoa, I really ramble on, I could talk forever about the playground, it has gone far beyond what we expected, to have models worldwide is amazing.  Thank you again, Dina ((Dina)) Hug away