Hi Solange,corner piping is good. LOL How nice of you to join in after all this time. You've lived in some beautiful places,each with it's own charm and hopefully will come to love the tidewater region of Va. Lots of history there.Sure hope you stay and join in frequently. It's great seeing this place perk up with all you newer posters.

Hello, Solange
Glad you are emerging from lurkdom! I have been on the GP forever, myself, posted a lot and then lurked for some time and returned to posting.
Stick around and add to the mix!

Welcome Solange! Wow, I think you get the long time lurker award. Nope-- Long time read only award! I really don't like the connotations of "lurker." I'll bet someone with the persistence to stick with us that long, but the discipline not to have been posting all those years must be quite interesting. Can't wait to hear more from you.

May I ask what kept you moving so often? Following your work?

Hello Solange! I'm glad you've decided to post. We've had lots of new voices here lately & that's good to see.

Thanks for the welcome, y'all - it is one of my tendencies, when in a group, to keep my mouth shut & just listen for a loooong time. I guess that applies here too!
Clare - yes, following work. Work following me, really - I love new places and am one of those lucky people who seems to eventually find beauty everywhere - and my company has been very tolerant of my wandering foot. I think I'm here for a few years, though.
mWoods - you are right, no doubt. Besides the overwhelming historical sites, there's the Chesapeake Bay, VA Beach, James River...lots to explore!

the sacreist haunted house in the WHOLE WORLD is in Va Beach. Open all the time. Downtown, hope it's still there. Better take a friend with you if you go...maybe two in case one disappears...

Hi, Solange - glad to see you piping up and I hope we hear from you more often. This place has been through lots of ups and downs over the years but here some of us are still.

Hello Solange. I love your name! Hope you stay for a while, not only in your new work space, but also here as well.

Welcome, Solange----I'm NW of you, in the Valley!
Glad you decided to join us!

and a beautiful place it is ,KJ.

Marda----it's spitting snow here, mixed with bone-chilling rain-----the Valley is still pretty---just a wee too cold me right now. I could stand some Brazil, I think.
---If we're getting some of this, you probably are, too!
---I think tonight will be one of those
Amaretto-in-the-Hot-Tea nights....
Solange; hope it's not too windy where you are today!

Nope,no snow yet and it will be awhile. We very rarely get any until after the holidays.The Atlantic tempers our weather quite a bit,but still cold enough for Amaretto and tea. Heck anything under 70 qualifies for that. LOL

Welcome Solange, I'm in Penna. I post here and Lurk here
also. Now that summer is over I have to put the motorcycle
away till spring. I'll be be now and then. I've been busy
lately with life.

Marda; the A&TEA made me feel MUCH better!

Gloria, don't put your ride away just yet----there is still Indian Summer----I think.

I believe. I believe.

thanks again all!
weebus - that is good news. i love haunted houses.
pidge- thank you! i'm not sure where i picked up that name but i've always liked it.
kj & gloria - i'm ready for whatever rituals are necessary to stave winter off for another month or two. i hope to at least see some snow (yeah, i'm one of those perverse souls!)

Another Valley girl here. Can't brag about the weather right now though. I brought most of my plants in yesterday and would like to think at least some will survive in the garage until Spring. Ah, Spring. . .what a beautiful word.
Welcome, Solange, even though I've just wandered back here after a long time. I remember dicken, too, and also The Rev.
They added a lot to the Party.
I'm sure you will, too.

Sue

okay this is a real oldy,huh,
Solange if your still around I just wanted to drop a hello,, You remember me as JWJ,, alot has changed in my life,,, I went off with the others after a short banishment period from this site,, hehehehe,, opened my big mouth,,
anyhow now days I sneak in now and then,, just stumbled across this post when I was doing a search for jwj, to see if I could find some old friends,,
I do have to admit that I do not recognize many of the people here now,,,but I do hold so many of the others in my memories and still giggle about some of the topics we used to run amuck with,, hehehehe,, okay okay and then there were the more serious things, the debates that actually got me sidelined, oh yea and who can forget being online with friends here during the 911 attacks,,,
I hope everyone who does remember me takes this as a quick hello, its alot differnt here now then back in those beginning years thats for sure,,
Hugz to all those old friends who may read this,
Mary
AKA: JWJ,Keeper of the chocolate

Hey there! I remember you both, fondly!

Welcome back. I hope you both stay around.

Hey there Sara,
Awe now I peek in now and again,, I do remember you as well,,
Mary

Solange, I'd been quietly sitting in the opposite corner until recently...it's nice I think you'll find to be posting again. I remember your lovely name from long ago...so unusual. josh

Oh my! Solange and JWJ...
Nice to "see' you all again..
Linda c...

Hi, Solange
Glad to have you speak out (I've often wondered who is in the quiet corner). I'm a comparative newbie at GP, but an oldie in VA, with 2 places in that lovely state; so I sit with the northern VA mountain folk [occasionally] while residing where the job is, in Fairfax suburbia... GP and quiet mountains help keep me more-or-less sane while most of my life seems spent with the illogics of special education rules & regs, data processing, traffic, or vociferous discussions with the squirrels who claim residential rights to my gardens.
meldy

Whatever happened to the Rev. As I recall, he had many opinions.

What happened to Rev is a touchy subject. Those who preach tolerance weren't exactly tolerate towards Rev.

Elia

Hello Linda C,been a while huh,
The Rev, Myself I enjoyed alot of his posts...but then that was back in a differnt time and obviously a differnt group of folks here,,,
I know I still cruize through the site where many of the hmmmmm, renegades if you want to call a great group of friends a name like that,, have taken up residence,They can still make ya laugh,scream,smile, and cry,, hehehehe
My life has changed dramatically so I do not have much online time unless I hop on for work ,such as I am doing now,doing a bit of research,
well I am off, have hundreds of plants to get into the ground and a couple thousand bulbs,
hope everyone has a great day,
Mary
aka:JWJ