Wolf, I was thinking of that Villa yesterday. Lindylou and I had a fun time there at first. Loved the pizza oven. I think it was a bit too active. As I remember, Lindylou and I and Mim especially would meet at The Cottage on the Lake and sit at the end of the dock or in beach chairs with our feet in the water and have a glass of wine and just sit and lean on each other. We didn’t know that Mim was dying, just that she had breast cancer. I just remember virtually sitting with her, leaning against each other at The Cottage. I was depressed for weeks when we found out she died. Someone knew her in person and posted her obituary and photo. She looked just as I imagined her. Isn’t that weird? Anyway, she wasn’t strong enough to walk around at the Villa, so we went to The Cottage.
And then Lindylou and I spent many an evening virtually exploring the lake and the river feeding it. We would swim to the island and bring back wild blueberries for blueberry cheesecake. We’d go canoeing on the river and talk to the frogs. All while actually sitting with our partner in our living room on opposite coasts waiting for the next problem to erupt. What a life saver!
Just looked, looks good, I wasn't able to see the names of the 7 friends but you know me and facebook, I wonder if somehow it will become available to friends of those friends?
I am happy we have the FB page just to keep in contact with each other. We will be able to post cute pictures of our pets, ourselves, our spouse, etc. The negative is we won't have 'threads' for each topic to post under but that is fine. I just need my 'family'.
I tried looking at with my fake FB page and could only see me and Bonnie as members. Only showed the number of members but no names.
Oakridge, now that you’re a member you should be able to see the list of members. Actually I’m glad you couldn’t see the members’ names before you were a member. I didn’t want marketers or people with evil intentions to be able to extract that member list and then bother all of us on Facebook. Also some of us don’t want other Facebook friends to know about our Alzheimer’s struggle. Especially if we had business facebook stuff. So this is good news!
Also only members can see our posts. Friends of Friends won’t see anything. You’ll see our group posts in your newsfeed but your other friends etc won’t see that. They won’t see your interactions with those posts either. I confirmed that was true when I joined the KC10 group before I spoke about my husband there.
I’m thinking if we comment on a post, rather than making a separate post, then it will be like a thread. Am going to try topics. Don’t know how it works yet, but apparently we can use topics to organize posts or help with searching. Also I haven’t found how to pin a post.