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Karen

Check it out, G-Mom!
Look how many members we have now!


Cindy

Cindy, I think it's 'PUTER PARTY.

Let's rock!

I'm Merme and I approve Cindy S.'s approval. So why aren't YOU running for president, kid?

Merme

You think if I was President they'd let me hang out on the garden helper forum all day?



Cindy

Sure thing, kid. You'd bring a whole new meaning to the lyrics "Oh Beautiful! For spacious skies, for amber waves of grain!...." Who could resist a president able to do that?!

You'd get my vote in a heartbeat.

So what part of KY do you live in? I lived in Cincinnati for 12 years and got familiar with various parts of KY. I'm particularly fond of camping in the Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest, as well as Lexington's Horse Park.

Merme

The Daniel Boone National Forest is right by my house!

I'm about 80 miles south of Lexington.

COOL!

Cindy

Oh! You live in one of the loveliest regions of our entire country, you lucky girl!

Now I wanna know: does anybody ever sing that "Cindy, Cindy" song to you? You know the one "You ought to see my Cindy gal, she lives a-way down south...get along home, Cindy, Cindy!"

Can't help it, curious minds want to know.

Merme

My cousins used to tease me with that song all the time growing up.
Whenever we came to Kentucky to visit, they'd sing it everytime they saw me!

I was actually NAMED after a song, "Cindy, Oh, Cindy".


GetalonghomeCindyCindyohcindy!

Cindy, we have something in common.....I was named after a song too......Frank Sinatras "Laura", courtesy of my dad.....

My sister was also named after a song. Made me wonder if my parents had no imagination on their own!

If we named kids now after songs, they'd have some pretty weird names...

Well, when we were getting ready to have Maxi, picking a name seemed like the hardest thing we'd ever done. We settled on Maximillian for his first name because it works well in a variety of ways. Maxi is cute for a child. Max is believable for an adult. And if he ever gets Knighted by the Queen of England, Sir Maximillian sounds just swell!

But we wanted to include something of Maine in his name because he is the first Mainer ever born on either side of the family. We looked at the names of hundreds of towns in the state and none of them worked for us. How could we name our kid Wiscassset or Ogunquit?! So one night at 2 AM, my then-husband sat up in bed and said "How about Casco?" It isn't just the name of our local bay, but it is also the name of our region where we were living the happiest days of our entire lives. So that became the first of his two middle names.

Each year I take him on a cruise of Casco Bay so he can get a ships view of "his" bay. When he was quite small, he'd tell people "My name is Maximillian Casco Bay!" and I'd remind him to leave out the Bay part. He'd chuckle and say "Oh, ok, Mama!"

Merme

That is an AWESOME name!
I love it!
I wish I'd have put that much thought into my daughter's name. My mom bestowed me with the same middle name SHE had, which I've always disliked.....so what do I do? Turn around and give it to my daughter as a gift to my mom! She hates it, too.

Cindy

Every family has gotta have traditions, Cindy. Maybe she'll like it better if you point that out by singing that one line by Hank Williams Jr "It's a family tradition!" making your eyebrows jump up and down while you sing it. Well, at least she'll be able to laugh about it if not exactly thank you.

Merme

I just pictured that!

Then, follow that up with some David Allen Coe...
"If That Ain't Country"

So, what IS your much despised middle name?

Me, I'm always a-weepin' and a-wailin because I don't have a middle name! So little Maxi got two.

Merme

I'll PM it to you!

You have to PROMISE not to tell!

Cindy

Ooooops!
I think I just accidently PM'd it to Bill!

You have to PM it to me? It is really as bad as all of that?! Yipes!

Maybe it isn't such a bad thing that I do not have a middle name after all. My name is Mary-Ellen (yes, it has a hyphen) but everyone calls me Mary-El for short. With my first name thus jointed into one word, my mom was too tired to think of a middle name that would go along with it. I'm the youngest of six kids, bless her heart. She had to have been running out of good ideas by the time I came along.

Merme

You guys won't believe this but I'm one of eight and I have no middle name ............My first name is Mary Ellen!!!!!!!!

Everyone except for my mother calls me Mel, and Cindy I want the middle name pm'd to me too.

HELLO!

Think thats bad
Have a about this.
My second name is May.
Mum called me that because l was born in May
Whenever people ask me my second name, l always say Mavis, but that is just as bad.

Doreen

Cynthia Louise
I like that name!

and now I know what to call you if I get mad at you.

Doreen May I like your name too!

Oh Please no,
that name is my Nemesis,

Doreen please, l promise not to upset you

Doreenxx