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Marcia,

Thankyou for the kind words and for trying to make our departure a little less sad. u sound like a very special lady and I really look forward to meeting you and your hubby.

I love hugs and Im saving up a big one for you! ;D

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You know, Nonie, it's people like you that make TV such a wonderful place to live.

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Nonie,Bare,Hyacinth

Have a safe trip home.
Please drive carefully. It is very sad, having all these people leaving to go home.

It will not be the same without you all. Hugs. Thank goodness for TOTV, we will meet on line 024 024 and keep in touch.

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Sam & Beady,

Thankyou so very much for your kindness.Knowing there are wonderful people like you to come back to makes this a little less painful. It was an enormous pleasure spending time with both of you.
Going back to grumpy N.Y will be tough after spending so much time with your smiling faces. :'(

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Nonie

You are such a sweetie! Looking forward to when we can be back in TV together. Can hardly wait to show you my social cards! ;) ;)

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Beady, Nonie, Chels, Sam, VK, Marcia, Susan, Bright

It is comforting to know that you understand exactly how those of us who have to leave are feeling. I can't thank you all enough for being blessed with your friendships. Leaving TV is very tough. Ask Fireboy who has been watching my emotional roller coaster with amazement. He keeps saying "I've never seen you like this". But then I've never found a place or people I loved as much as TV.

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Bare, Nonie, HB, Mom2Five, and other residents of our hearts,
I really hope to be arriving in TV when you return. I think this will call for a huge celebration...the details of which we can all work out together over the summer.

So instead of dwelling on how bad we all feel let's start planning the party.

How about a Masquarade, with huge costumes and feathers and hats. We can decorate our golf carts like chariots and go the the ball on the arms of our handsome escorts.

Or we could have a "Round-up". Appropriate title...We can all dress in western wear and have a huge BBQ and line dance in our driveway...we could even have a calf roping contest ie (parrot roping) and try to lasso Bright's Parrot atop her golfcart while it is moving.

You get the idea...lets start planning. The anticipation will help the sorrow to go away. At this age we should not waste a single day being sad, or wishing for tomorrow.

Love you all, I already miss everyone because we already left. I swear there is something in the water...just not possible to fall in love so fast and so hard with strangers at this age...but we all do. So nice to have a safe place for this side of our human-ness to be dusted off and encouraged to grow.

The more we love, the more loving we become. How nice it is and how lucky we all are to be connected to a place like TV.

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Susan, :agree: As I said in a Femme post, let's look forward to a party! It's always more fun to anticipate something. We're on the same page, so I'm volunteering to help plan. We can have a "Homecoming Dance" and really rock out! Count me in!http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/slowdance.gif

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Chelsea based on your posts I think we are on the same page often. I think we should plan several full-blown events and then choose from the array and do one a month until we run out of ideas...or energy. ;D

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Thanks. I was inspired by yours and Johnny's video.

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P.S. You and anyone else who isn't in TV will just have to fly in for the events. Just that simple.

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Yes, Susan I think we are on the same page! A month of events sounds good to me. We'll really plan ahead. Bright, why can't you be here??? Well ladies, I like action, so count me in on anything you have in mind. :bigthumbsup:

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Chels

If not retired, I'll be there if it coincides with my school's vacation times.

I need to get my financial planner over here ASAP...my hopeful retirement date is end of school year 2009! Keep your fingers crossed I can afford to do it then.

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Susan, Chels did I hear party? :hot: :2excited: :hot: :2excited:
We just love parties. :clap2: :clap2: count us in for planning a party. 040 040

Since we love to party over the years we have collected really weird stuff and used these items for themes to have a party. Missed not having our Annual Ground Hog Party this year.

We love to party - love the fun of planning, buying and everything that goes with having a party.

I am so excited.

Love ya,

HB

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Chelsea, dear, I didn't mean a month of parties...I meant a party every month. Too much of a good thing makes it a bad thing. A party every month welcomes people to TV with something special no matter when they arrive in TV. Besides, Chels I don't think I could enjoy, let alone handle that much partying. :beer3:

Bright, there are schools in Florida. ::) Teach there. :bigthumbsup: ;)

HB theme parties need lots of "stuff" and lots of planning. Should be lots of fun. Personally I am not going to be involved for about a month or so. Need to get my house on the market and sold and get moved to TV. Anything that keeps me from accomplishing that has to be done by others right now.

All...I love to talk about it and think about it, but it only takes me minutes to plan and a couple of hours to prepare for really big parties. Not because I cut corners, but it is just a really easy thing for me to do. So if I don't keep up with you just go on ahead, I will catch up or just be your guest. I'm not much into "control" and am just as happy being your guest, as I am planning a party for you.

There is so much fun to be had in TV. ;D

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I'll be the DJ....

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:2cool: Johnny! You'd make a great D.J. You're on!

Susan, yes I agree a party once a month is just right. I couldn't handle a month of parties either! I'm just trying to look forward because I'm so sad right now with everyone leaving. http://www.millan.net/minimations/sm...crysmiley1.gif

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JM you would make a wonderful DJ.

Parties once a month sound great to me.

HB

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Oh good, whew, it was making me tired just thinking about it.

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Barefoot reporting in on Monday morning. Fireboy is in the driveway with the dogs and cat blowing the horn .. guess that is my hint that my time in TV is over. >:( I just read what I wrote (it's early) and the cat is not blowing the horn.

Special thanks to Samhass for Thursday night, Beady for Sat night, and Nonie and Chels for Cassadaga and Sunday brunch. :bigthumbsup:

All the members of TOTV that I've met have been gracious, warm and wonderful. Through the magic of this website, I will be able to stay in touch with all my friends no matter where we are.

Goodbye, it's been wonderful. :barf:

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I remember back when I was young and in my 20s and 30s. We partied hearty every weekend, looked forward to it, and had some really good times. Whew, those were the years but nowadays I get tired thinking about them.

As I look at my May calendar, I notice we have a party every weekend but one. Not the kind of parties we had 20-30 years ago, but parties none the less.

The graduation and birthday ones will be fun but the one I'm looking forward to is the "wild game" bbq. That one is always interesting and we never know what will be on the menu.

Maybe I should make some batches of monkey and gorilla drinks...would go along with the theme.

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Have a safe trip, Barefoot. Before you know it, you'll be at your computer back home, and writing about your adventures, getting back to Canada. Can't wait to be able to say these things in person..............

Marcia

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Travel safe Bare and Rick. It goes without saying, but I'll say it, Stephen and I love you both. Hurry onto the computer when you get home!


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A safe trip to the Barefoot family. Hopefully when you get back to TV a lot of us new folks will be there to welcome you when you come back! ;) See you on line, Johnny&Barbara

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I'm not saying Good-Bye, Bare and Fireboy...I'm saying see you soon. Have a safe trip. Let me know when you get home. :bigthumbsup:

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Barefoot:
Ya you guys have a safe trip..When you stop at TIMS have a java on me . :bigthumbsup:

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Have a safe trip to Canada, Barefoot, Fireboy, the dogs and of course the horn blowing cat.
Time will fly and you will be back in TV before you know it. And maybe by then we can get there at last. I'm counting on lunch at Crispers your first months back! wav wav wav wav

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Hi all,

My computer needs to be repaired. Will only be on line at odd times, if I can get a computer. Have a great couple of weeks .

Will miss all of my Sistahs.

HB

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I am back in Canada, wearing snowshoes. Just kidding, we are having a heat wave, it is in the 70s.

I am desperately missing TV and everyone I've met. I'm trying to be a brave barefoot and enjoy my time in Ontario. My mother always said "Don't wish your life away" .. and now I know exactly what she meant. The years are flying by; and I am getting old at a startling rate. So I don't want to wish that the next six months in Canada would fly by.

So I'll just sit in the hot tub at the cottage, dreaming of golf carts, streets lined with gold, people dancing every night, and all the wonderful TOTVers.

When the leaves start changing colour, I'll be heading back to TV!

Thanks y'all for all the good wishes. ;)

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Will miss seeing you walking around the big field and the big dog area of Doggie Doo Run Run, Barefoot at Last. :( I stay in the small dog section because my chihuahua/terrirr mix-- Sport-- got bit going to the big field early August 2007 by a dog named Jesse James. He has trouble around bigger dogs still.

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I won't wish your or my life away, BF, but it will be wonderful when you and Fireboy get back down here. The good thing is the 6 months will be over before you know it.

The TOTV gatherings will be missing a spark of sunshine without you.

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Tal, I miss the Dog Park so much, I just loved it there. Especially the swing in the back acreage. I went there every day for the past six months. I bet if my dogs could talk, they'd be saying "Take me back to TV!"

Dee, thank you for the kind thoughts. You have no idea how much I envy you being able to be there full time. Ah well, I'm lucky to even have winters there. I just miss the hell out of TV!

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Hi Bare,

To help me ease my separation sadness I am looking at flower and bulb catalogues and looking at what grows in zone 9. It is opening up a whole new world of plants.

So not I am dreaming of what I will plant and grow. Things I have never been able to grow before. Just found out I can grow grapes in TV. Now all I have to figure out how many plants to buy and where to put them.

Enjoy the hot tub.

HB

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We're trying to take your mom's advice, too, Barefoot. But it's so hard not to wish, wish, wish, that time would fly, until we can be in TV fulltime, too. Course, then.........time has to stand still.........

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pm10,

Ya know, thats the hard part. You dont want time to fly once your here but unfortunately it does. The expression that"time flys when your having fun" never applied to anywhere or anytime in life like it does when your in TV. Now if we could just figure out a way to make time stand still while we are here??? :dontknow:

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That is what I want at this age, for time to stand still and to stop having birthdays. The years are just racing by.

While I look forward to returning to TV in the Fall, by then I'll have had a birthday and be another year older. Arrrrg. I know I can't get younger, but please, Divine Goddess, can't I just stay this age for a while?

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Guess the solution is to resolve to savor every moment and don't look to far into the future. The future is coming faster and faster for all of us.
Like Chels tells us ,do something good for your self and someone else every day. Before you know it it will be fall and you'll be headed back to TV.