Memorial Day Weekend ....

Here is what it looks like here in North Texas this weekend ...

I am NOT complaining!!

Our Yard is Lush and Green and almost jungle-like!! Even swampy in places! We will need to work on the swampy parts soon .... but I LOVE the lush green look ... and the scents ... and the birds ... and the SOUNDS!!

I love napping when it is raining.

I love reading when it is raining.

I love Blogging when it is raining.

I have to cherish the rain ... because here in North Texas ... Summer is coming .... and one never knows when we will see rain again. I don't think it has been 9o degrees here yet .... maybe one or two days ... since Spring started .... but it has been an amazingly wet and cool Spring for us! Gotta love it.

I am still missing my community of friends. I find it very interesting that this blog is being read by all of the people who wanted me gone from South Beach Diet Online. Many of them are still checking in on a daily basis. I have heard from others that Fool's Paradise is basically dead on SBDO. Bree opens daily ... but no one is posting. That is so sad.

Times change .... people move on. My memories of the LHS Faculty lounge back in 1995 reinforced that to me. I had that wonderful group of women for just that one year ... then they added a bunch more portable buildings for classrooms ... and we all got our own classrooms without having to share. Suddenly, the faculty lounge was just a place to spend your 30 minute lunch with teachers from the same department as you. Conference periods were spent grading papers and making lesson plans in the empty quiet of your classroom. The comeradery of the 95-96 school year faded to just a memory. A GOOD memory ... but just a memory.

And so goes the comeradery of Fool's Paradise from 2003-new year's eve 2006. It is now but a memory. I can still email with some friends I met on there. And I can IM with others. But the playful exchange between many bright minds and kind hearts, all in the same place, is now dead.

Many of us are in mourning. Many of us say we have just been too busy to "play" on the boards. Many are confused as to exactly what has happened. Many feel compelled to choose "sides". Many want to stay friends with everybody ... but feel torn by the conflicts.

Change is inevitable.

I don't have to like it .... but I do need to embrace it and move on.