Happy Halloween!

Hello everyone,

After a lengthy absence, I am happy to be back again! As many of you know, my husband has serious health issues, and these past months have not been good ones for him. Looking back over these months, it seems to be a big blur to me now. With much thankfulness, I am happy to say that his condition has stabilized, so I feel I can take a deep breath and try and resume where I left off. I have missed you all so much!

And I wish everyone a frightfully wonderful HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween!

A Tour Of My New Neighborhood

I was driving around our new area (out in the country) and took pictures of some of the gorgeous houses that surround us, and I wanted to share them with you! One of the many reasons I love this area, is that it appears here they have respect for wonderful, vintage homes - people renovate and preserve the beauty and character of the city. Having just recently moved here, from living in the heart of a huge city all my life, was quite a welcome change. At first hubby and I were not sure if making such a radical change was the right thing to do, but now we know that it was!

In our previous home in the big city, we grew so tired of seeing wonderful old homes being destroyed and torn down to make way for those "mini" mansions and condo developments that seemed to sprout up overnight everywhere you went. The whole character of some of the older neighborhoods was being ruined. I would much rather see a glorious old Victorian restored to its former glory, than a bunch of new homes thrown together so quickly, and all looking so much alike. That's just my opinion :)

All I can say is that so far I have not regretted this move one bit, and neither has the hubby - we wish we would have done it much sooner! It was a big decision for us to make, because we both had lived in the big city all our lives. I do not miss the terrible congestion on the streets and highways, road rage, lack of parking, stores always being crowded, hearing police sirens all the time, and I can go on and on....LOL

What I LOVE about this small city is waking up to fresh air, birds and crickets chirping, peace and quiet, beautiful scenery, extremely friendly people who are happy to welcome a newcomer to their area, no rush hours, no traffic jams, geeeez - why didn't we do this sooner? :) Anyway, here are some pix of gorgeous houses in the area for you to enjoy!

A Tour Of My New Neighborhood

Update on My Questions

Thanks so much to everyone who responded and offered suggestions to the questions I asked about Blogger earlier. Not even 2 hours after I posted that message, Blogger refused to let me sign in under the old system (which is exactly what "Mama and Jack" wrote that happened to her) Blogger must have known I did not want to switch over and just had to torment me... :) Well, I had no choice BUT to switch over, which I very nervously did. Good news, everything went fine, and it did accept my template since I had it in the system already. (When I had opened up a "test" site under a different Blogger account, it would not accept my template on a new account.) So after all, I was worried for nothing. I will get around to re-doing it on the new system, because I like the option to label your posts by category. I have temporarily implemented an option to that, by making a list of categorized posts through del.icio.us (it is in my right sidebar)

As for the e-mail reply question, everyone said that you have to have that option checked in your profile so others can reply to you. So if you want me to reply to you personally, you will have to send me your e-mail if you do not have it publicly listed. I put my e-mail on my front page for anyone who needs it. Thanks again so much for your help!

Update on My Questions