Eve from So. Oregon

Eve I loved those photos. I love the Rose parade and often wonder how they are built and what happens to them once the parade is over.

Hi, Eve:
I grew up in LA, so my New Year's ritual is still getting up early Jan 1 to watch the Rose Parade!

I have only seen the "DooDah" parade in person (what a hoot!), but have always watched the Rose Parade on TV. My favorite commentators were Stephanie Edwards and Bob Eubanks. It was a shame when they relegated Stephanie to the stands her last year when the weather was so bad!

It is amazing how much work goes into putting together a float, especially since the surfaces must be covered with flower/plant material...

BTW, my sis-in-law is a realtor for Coldwell Banker in La Canada! Small world, huh?

Eve, the more I learn about you, the more incredible you are! Maybe next year, I'll volunteer to help out. This year, my younger son and his family will be here and I have got to spend as much as time as I can to spoil my grandson. My first and my husband's second grandchild. I'll post pics when they get here!

Hi Eve...my name is Georgia. Thanks for the welcome. I'm a sudoku dropout of this site. I checked the archives and I first started here 12/31/05. I got so hung up on the puzzle and the posts that I found myself leaving late for work each morning. I recognize some names. Hopefully I'll figure out the little cartoons and such. Gath has added a lot. I hope to see you around. Thx again for the welcome

I got my my new youtube up. I had forgot to push the update, just like you knew I had.

Eve, thank you for the birthday greeting. Somehow I'm managing to extend the celebration out for 3 days. Yesterday was the celebration on the other side of the International Date Line, today I'm expecting my husband to wait on me hand and foot, tomorrow my kids and grandkids are coming to celebrate my birthday and will stay for New Year's Eve. Yahoo!!!
Have a wonderful, wonderful new year!

your photos are superb Eve! A good New Year to you!

Thanks for the information on the float, the effort is to be commended. Will it be judged or just paraded? Our TV stations are very parochial, we are lucky to get any overseas content, but I will keep a look out. All the very best for the coming year.

Hi Eve! Very nice of you introducing us in the Rose Parade theme. I went all around the information that follows the conections in the net. Do you participate in this? It seems to me far away from wehere you live. It is a shame that we can not see it not even in the T.V.. Enjoy your time there and have a beginnig of year 2008 full of joy.

Hi Eve.
Have thought a lot about what you said when you last dropped by. Its taken me 4 days to get the house to myself and some peace to reply to you.Hope you didn't think me rude.
'The depth of ones sense of loss is a measure/reflection of the depth of meaning they shared in your life'
At the risk of sounding 'fatalistic' I believe in living each day as if it is your last [one day you will be right].

We shared a big table at Christmas - 17. My 2 sisters and spouses, sister's inlaws from France, our kids, a nephew and neice [brothers kids] and a stray friend of my nephews who was at a loose end. Very different from our last Christmas with mum.

We are going to have a very quiet New Years Eve - I've always been one to party but this year I just want to see it in safely and peacefully with my husband, 17yo son and two dogs. This year has in many ways been MY 'annus horribilis' and I plan on setting the table, opening the best bottle in the house and celebrate life, love and peace with my family.

now on a lighter note..
I have been following your 'photo trail' on the float building - fascinating and enjoyable. I watch eagerly for postings from you to say you have added more photos. I love building and creating things and I think this would be a wonderful project to be involved with. Makes me wonder how we can have such hatred and unrest in the world when people CAN co-operate and build something like this simply for the joy of doing and participating? Crazy, isn't it?
Anyway, you enjoy and look out for 'yours' and enjoy.

me??? [for being a serial poster..?] try if you dare...
Have just read through my first posting and there was so much that I was thinking as I was writing that that I'm surprised that only bits and pieces of it came through. Need to reign in those thoughts...

Something I had wanted to say was thankyou for sharing your experiences. It always helps knowing someone understands, has experienced and survived what you are going through. I was struck by how young your husband was when he died. What a lot of loss there has been - it has been the making of a very compassionate person.

..on that note you get out and enjoy what is left of 2007 [as will I] and look forward to bigger and better happenings [or at least different] in 2008.
Ciao for now...

Eve thank you for a wonderful New Year toast. Bliadhna mhath ur from the land of Hogmanay and may God bless you in the coming year.

Bonne Annee et bonne sante pour 2008

Eve Thank you the bubblie sounds great,I would love to drink a toast to the new year with you Here's to a happy healthy and peaceful 2008

Eve: Thanks for dropping by with the bubbly. Sorry I was "out" at the time. It was the middle of the night here. Yes you still have time to give thanks for the Lord's righteouness. I am pretty up-to-date with that.
However there is one churchgoer living immediately above me who obviously knows nothing about it.

Thanks for the wishes

Wee fish, ewe, a mare, egrets, moose, panda, hippo, gnu, deer

Hi Eve, many thanks for your good wishes. May your New Year be everything that you wish for.

Eve, thank you for the poem and best wishes for the New Year. I hope you have a great year 2008, too. Your float photos are very interesting. I will return to see the finished photos of the float.

Eve, thank you for your lovely poem and good wishes and I return the same to you. Enjoy the bubbly, I certainly am!

Ha! Eve, it was a delight seeing your new year msg..many thanks for the greetings and I wish you too have a wonderful New year blessed with good health and peace.
cheers

Eve hope you have a peaceful one. Leaving you a little chocolate to share xx

Eve
Thank you for your wishes , you are sweet , i wish you a happy new year and many many to come

& the best of upcoming years to you too.

Hi Eve! Thanks for your new year's poetic greeting & for posting all those float pictures!! I spent a long time last night looking at all 161 of them including the captions which must have taken you hours to write. I will watch the parade tomorrow with much greater appreciation of the work that goes into those fabulous floats! Someday I hope to be able to see the Rose Parade in person, but we will only make the trip to Pasadena if & when Michigan gets enough wins to play in the Rose Bowl. Hope their new coach can earn them a bid out there in the next couple years. I hope you have a good time tonight celebrating the new year & that you will enjoy continuing good times, good friends & good health in 2008.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here's a toast to peace and understanding and well-being.

Eve, thank you so much for your good wishes. May 2008 be the best year in your life!!!

Thank you for the New Year's wishes and poem, Eve! I've been so busy the past few days that I haven't spent any time on the site - but my thoughts are with you all! Have a very

Hi Eve,
Thank you so much for the Happy New Year email. I live in Walnut Creek (East of SF). I just wanted you to know that I too am a Christian and so grateful for the love and salvation given to us by Our Father.

I hope that your 2008 is GREAT!
Sally

Eve,
Thank you for your warm wishes today for a blessed new year, may your happiest moment of 2007 be the saddest of 2008, take care and may God continue to bless you and your family.

Aimee

Hi Eve! Love the pictures - especially your happy dog next to the tree. I should get posting too! I have a new digital camera for Christmas and Schultz has enjoyed his 14th Christmas - pretty good for such a big dog.

Happy New Year to you too, Eve!
Wish you to leave everything sad in 2007. And only good luck and happiness and love to be taken to 2008 and further. :-))

Thank you for your visit and the bubblees...Cheers! I brought you some dessert and some tourtières...

Hi, Eve, have a wonderful and here's some to toast the year in and some to sober up tomorrow morning! Love those bagpipes! I thinking of purchasing a beginner pipe (one that you learn the basics of the bagpipe minus the bag) I just love Amazing Grace with the bagpipes!

Eve for dropping by my new page and welcoming me (although I've been around on the Sudoku site for nearly as long as it's been in existence, but have only just become a member.) I'm afraid my guests didn't see any of your delicious pie - me and my family polished the whole thing off in around 15 minutes!

to you and yours - I hope 2008 treats you well.

Eve, have fun with the Tournament of Roses parade. I can't believe all of the work that goes into it!! Wishing you and your family, health, peace, love, and happiness that you may share with friends and family throughout the New Year! ! Stella

Dear Eve,
for you kind wishes and the bubbly, cheers to you. May you get everything you wish for in 2008

Thank yu for your good wishes. You have been of great help to an old stupid woman. May you enjoy your life and have few troubles.

Eve, Thank you kindly for your good wishes for the next(this) year. Your verses were charming - just a simple 'Happy New Year' from me.

Eve
wishing you a happy and healthy 2008