If your friends are online, you can chat with them...provided they know you are there!!
Its actually fun talking instead of just posting a comment...so just check at the bottom of your facebook page to see if any friends are online....then click and chat.
Quite easy...
The temperature has gone down over 30 degrees since 5:30 this morning....it is definitely a snuggle night! Two more months until official Spring....can't wait!!
Happy Thoughts..............and sunshine............and warmth............

Hi Lori, I don't think there has been a communal site used the way we do here. If we go to the SHS site that's the place aparently, but I don't see that folks are using it. karen posts there quite often and Sue Rock did recently. I think it will take time to catch particularly as folks are used to doing wall-to-wall conversations.

Thanks, Kathi. I'm finally starting to catch on. First I thought you had special powers! I found the individual walls, but where's the communal wall where everyone writes?

Lori, it was me trying to talk to you on facebook. When you have your page up look down in the right hand corner for Online Friends....click on it and it will tell you which of your friends are on. You can then click on their name (it might be double click) but anyways a box will come up...click onto the bottom of the box and type away, then click on enter for them to get the message.

2009 S.H.S. ALUMNI WEEKEND

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, June 26, 2008

12:30pm 5th Annual Alumni Golf Tournament

Crown Point Country Club, Springfield, Vermont (luncheon to follow)

Contact Bill Flore at 802-885-2507 or bflore@msn.com for more information.

S.H.S.A.A. Annual Banquet

June 26, 2009

Elks Club - Park Street

6:00p.m. Social Hour

7:00p.m. Dinner

~Crowning of the King & Queen

~Recognition of scholarship recipients

~Recognition of our Honored Guest

~Presentation of the President's Award

Contact: Mary MacMahan 802-885-3170 or Brenda Markwell 802-885-8085

Saturday, June 27, 2009

10:30a.m. 54th Annual Alumni Day Parade

Clinton Street to Riverside Middle School

Contact: Keith Ferguson at 885-3273 or gkferguson@vermontel.net

2:00p.m. S.H.S.A.A. Annual Meeting

Held at Riverside Middle School Auditorium

~Association Business Meeting

~ Presentation of Parade Awards

Contact: Keith Ferguson at 802-885-3273

WE WANT YOU TO JOIN US!

SHSalumni.com is still the official school affiliated web site

That's what bothers me, too. Patti--I feel really exposed when I write on facebook. I don't think I know where that "wall" is. The blog feels more private, and that suits my personality better. I keep checking out facebook, though. I'm not giving up yet! As for Sacramento, it's in northern California, so it's pretty far away from L.A. Maybe 7 hours by car? Not sure.

Karen, I think there's a lot I don't yet know about using Facebook. Everything I write to someone shows up on my page. I need to look into it further obviously. Especially I need to find the send some specific button. Where does it go then? Onto their wall? I'll keep working with it, thanks for the help.

Krishna wrote back yesterday and said she'd check out the school site in Facebook. She recognized a lot of the names in my friends section she said.

That way she can do what she wants as far as having contact I have to say I think Facebook is strangely too public. You think you're writing an email but in fact you're posting your note for all to see. Somehow here I've always felt a little more conversational and private. Certainly i have had "conversations" I would not have posted in Facebook. Here, I feel that i am speaking to a handful of close friends.

Don't ask me why, as I've said before it may just be that it's what I'm used to. I know that over the years there have been many people who read this but do not comment. I've sort of learned to ignore that. I certainly do like the ease of instant messaging in Facebook. I've had some fun with that the last couple of days.

Lori, Krishna lives in Sacramento I think. Is that at all near you?

Facebook is turning out to be pretty amazing. I'm finding my cousins and they are finding me!

That's remarkable Karen. Krishna contacted me last evening and I wrote back this morning. She asked me how I had found her since she had only joined recently. I told her it was you. I've also asked her if she wants me to invite others to join her. So I'll let you know. Her photo looks just like the Joanna I remember. It's amazing. I have found that pictures I've seen of everyone of the females particularly match my memories. Richard is the same as well. The guys I didn't know as well certainly didn't spend much time with and so their faces don't resound with me.

How did you happen to do that?

Well, I'm adjusting from the point of acceptance but I'm alone and lonely most of the time. I dont know where to start for organizing the rest of our stuff but i know I need to. I'm not working and don't plan to. I spend most days alone here a home. I enjoy the women who knit up in Orono but it is 20 minutes or more to get there. they all live in different towns and I don't get the feeling that I will ever be close to any of them.

I'm on a very strict elimination diet. Mostly I'm allowed to eat only things I wouldn't normally eat. It's hard to manage. that's for 7 days and then one item at a time for 48 hours each I can add things back in to find out what if anything I'm allergic to. Not an experience I'm enjoying.

My friend Elaine is coming to spend an overnight next TH as she has a workshop in Bangor on Friday. I'm looking forward to having her here.

If the radiant heating guy is going to do his thing next week I have so very much to do. We have to completely move all the things we've put into the family room downstairs. It's a tremendous amount of lifting and carrying. I'm not happy about it. I've called the boys but with their work schedules I'm holding out a lot of hope.

Sounds like you've adjusted really well and quickly to living in a new place, Patti. Are you working there?

Kathi, if you can have surgery and not have to live with that pain anymore, that definitely sounds worth it.

I had carpal tunnel many years ago when we were working in Burlington. I'm glad I got it fixed that's for sure. I don't remember the recover period. Kathi i hope the Dr. schedules you right away. Too bad you have to wait until 2/11 for that appointment.

I recorded the entire day yesterday and Dave and I watched it all together when he came home from work. it was very exciting. We both have a feeling of optimism and hope for the future. At long last.

I spent most of yesterday in Orono knitting at Fiberphilia. It's a terrific store that has all the materials you need and excellent staff that will sit and help whenever you ge stuck. women come everyday to just hang out and visit while working on their projects.

I have had chronic tendionitis for 3 years...and carpel tunnel..so, it is very annoying and painful at times...like trying to grasp onto things, or holding a pen/writing, doing my hair..any twisting motion...so its time to make it better...I am finding that I don't do a lot of activity if I know its going to hurt, so,I really need it fixed so I can do the things I want to do!! Neil is pretty good at doing things, I don't think he'd make a fancy pie but we won't starve. Just not sure how good he'll be with a blowdryer and brush! Glad your mom is doing better, Lori.
I wonder why they didn't have heaters in the observation deck for the parade....pretty sad for all these bands who have waited for hours are going by a almost empty bandstand. They were suppose to have over 5,000 portapotties. I don't know where they all were but I would be in big trouble out in the cold!

What's wrong with your elbow, Kathi? Good luck with the surgery. My mother broke her upper right arm a few weeks ago, so she's been dealing with the kind of things you're talking about, like not being able to comb your hair. Her arm is finally starting to heal and feel a little less painful, but she's needed a lot of help from my father. He actually made a lemon meringue pie and a sweet potato casserole under her close supervision. That struck me funny cuz he's never made anything. He started washing the dishes when they moved to Israel, but this is the first time he has even fried an egg!

We've been watching the inauguration activities. Really exciting! I think most people do feel a sense of hope and optimism. I know this is stupid, but I couldn't help wondering what all those millions of people did if they had to go to the bathroom. I guess there were mobile toilets there, but I didn't see them, and the lines must have been HUGE. Excuse my obsession with trivia!

I really want it all better by summertime!!! I have another appointment on 2/11 and it will be scheduled then...Of all the things that I worry about its how I'm going to do my hair that is worrying me the most!! Gee, wonder who will cook and clean...

Watching the Presidential parade on tv is unbelieveable. So many many people...makes you hope for good things for all of us.

Happy Thoughts..............

Because I am going to have surgery on my right elbow sometime after the 11th of February, I decided to start making my school Valentines. I love making Valentines and thought if I started early I wouldn't have to rush to get them done. I am usually doing them at the last minute because I can't decide on my "design"...pathetic, huh. Anyways, I finally made up my mind and have been working on them for a while...now its take a break time....
Is everybody watching the Washington activities tomorrow? We are suppose to watch the swearing in as a school...so should be interesting. Do you think this is the start of something wonderful for our country?

I hear you Karen, I forget to look at the group page, I always go straight to my own page.

All I did was highlight the writing; right click, choose copy. Went over to the facebook page and hit paste on the wall. Tadaaa. It's certainly something easy enough to do I'm just not sure it's something we'll all want to do.

Ok if you check the spfld site in facebook, you see that I took Karen at her word. Check it out.

Karen, I don't know how to cut and paste (pathetic, I know), but I'll take a look at Facebook later and try to be a little more open-minded! Right now I'm going hiking with my friend.....