Debby from Michigan,USA

Thank you very much for the birthday greetings. Hope you have a great weekend and a bight and prosperous remainder of the year. :D

Clare

Hey Deb-a-roonie! Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my pictures. I had missed the Jane Jam photos and was so happy to find them.
It's chilling out early here - I love this time of year!

Hi Debby

thanks for the birthday wishes :) you have a great day too...

Hi Debby, I am in California visiting my daughter. It is raining and cold so I am browsing the site. Haven't been on in a long time. We spent the summer up north. I hope you and your family are well and that you had a good summer. Any North Carolina? Everyone is coming to Florida for Christmas and we are so excited.

The photo of Seven Mile Bridge is actually looking away from the mainland, looking WSW, towards Key West. In fact, this bridge is already 50 miles from Mainland USA and well into "The Conch Republic."

It connects Marathon Key, Florida to Big Piney Key, more than 50 miles from where US 1 leaves the mainland proper. That occurs (leaving the mainland) when you cross Jewfish Creek and go onto Key Largo on US 1. The "Overseas Highway" stretches over 100 miles, connecting dozens of keys, to reach Key West.

The Seven Mile Bridge does not open. It has a high section where larger boats can go from Florida Strait (part of the Atlantic, on the left in the photo) into Florida Bay (part of the Gulf of Mexico, on the right).

The high section of the Seven Mile Bridge is not nearly as high as the Mackinac Bridge. I have been over the Mackinaw Bridge, and I must admit, I had my wife drive because I am not fond of narrow roads over high places!

The reason the bridge in the Keys need not be so high is that the water in Florida Bay is very shallow, hundreds of square miles, with only a few places where the water is more than 18 feet; unlike the Great Lakes most important shipping channel, where deep water allows deep running and high-standing ships to pass.

Interestingly, the very same cormorants which live out on Mackinac Island in the summer - I recall them on the jetty as the ferry came into the island's harbor - live in Florida in the winter, with thousands congregating on the many bridge pilings of Overseas Highway and 7-mile Bridge.

I love the photos you have added, Debby, of "Up North." They are wonderful ... but they make me homesick, too ...

Debby it was wonderful meeting you on Sunday. Hope you and Rick have a safe journey home,

I missed you, Debby. So glad you had a great 3 weeks in the beautiful mountains. Have a blessed Thanksgiving.

Debby, Glad you are back home and had a nice trip. It was great seeing you again, and meeting your husband. Hope we can do it again in the future. The friend I spoke to you about lives in Hardy, Va. Keep in touch

Loved looking at your photos, too, Debby! Oh how I wish we were moved in...can't begin my Christmas decorating until we make our living room in that part of the house. We were already to go this past weekend, but Mike realized my closet needed some adjustments. Hopefully we will get in at the beginning of next week (I'll be out of town for the weekend visiting with a friend)

Debbie I love getting birthday wishes from around the world.

Thank you Debby - I had a wonderful birthday with both my children in the same country at the same time, and my gorgeous grandson as well - it was a memorable birthday ♥

Dear Debby.
Wishing all of you,
A very "Merry Christmas"
And
A very "Happy New Year"
With all my best wishes to you.

Hi, Debby you and your loved ones have a and a all the best for 2010.

Best wishes for a wonderful New Year!

Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas



and

Dabby, seasons greetings to you and all you care for! May all of your lives be full of happiness and peace through the yuletide season and throughout the coming year!

Debby,
Debby
Wishing you and your family the
JOY
PEACE
LOVE
of CHRISTMAS.
And the Hope of the New Year.
Shiela

and

Debby, keeping a special place in my heart for you this Christmas. May you be filled with peace during this holy season and always. I know you'll share wonderful stories and that fond memories will surface. Sending you a Christmas hug and my warmest wishes.

Merry Christmas to you and your family - wishing you health, wealth and good times in the coming year -- Mary

Debby, thank you for thinking of my on my birthday! I really appreciate your birthday greeting. It's nice to "know" people from so many places in the world and so many walks of life. Happy New Year to you and your loved ones.

Hi Debby, thanks for the birthday wishes. I'm just about to head off to work so I guess that limits the amount of excitement for the day but we'll probably head out for dinner tonight to celebrate.

Cheers, Chris

Thanks for birthday wishes for yesterday 13th, haven't had time to get to computer until now so hopefully I am able to cut & paste this & send to all the thoughtful people who took time to visit my page.

Thanks for the birthday greetings. It has made the day special as my Hubby is away and I am celebrating tonight with just my 4 year old grandaughter!

Hello Debby
Thank you for your message and kind words ,i am sorry for being late to answer , this was a difficult time . I wish you a happy new year .

Thank you so much Debby, hope all you wish for me returns to you multiplied. ♥♥

Hi Debby. I haven't been on this site much in the past 12 months, but I've thought of you often. Sending you

Sweetheart! Won't you be mine???

Thank you so much Debby for my recent birthday wishes, hopefully I will be able to spend more time on this site from April when I return from a well earned break. I also retired from work last week

Hi Debby,

Enjoy Valentine's day.

for the wishes, my fellow Michigander! Hey, I AM a Valentine, at least in spirit! XO

Thanks Debby for my Retirement Congratulations. Like you my husband has been retired for over 3 years and as we still have 2 "boys" (36 & 32) living at home, it's a great opportunity for us to just take off when we feel like it & still have someone to mind the house & dogs . We have a caravan so maybe we'll become "Grey Nomads". We're heading off next week to meet up with my brother & his wife, so when I get back I hope to catch up with all my sudoko friends. Once again Thank You

Debby, if memory serves, tomorrow will be a poignant and reflective day for you ... my thoughts will be with you.

Dear Debbie, thinking of you today ... I don't really know what else to say ... (((hugs))) ♥

Hi dear friend...just wanted to stop by with a hug. Keeping you and your family in my prayers. Anniversaries of this sort can be so painful. Take good care of yourself.

I'm thinking of being a bit mischievous...as I realized you are about to reach your 1000th post!

How could I resist????