Charlene has been trying to contact everyone with info about the swap, but when she was trying to look up addresses or to PM people thru RMG, she wound up blocked from RMG! Apparently they have something in place that blocks anyone who looks up too many addresses or tries to PM too many people to prevent spamming!!! I’ve emailed the administrators explaining what she was doing and asking them to let her back in, but I have no idea how long it’ll take them to read the message, or if they’ll do anything about it when they do!

In the meantime...............

Here is a list of people Charlene send direct emails to:
greenbean08 + 1
Highalt
austinhanasmom
Jclepine + 1
sister k
conace55
convexles72
dafy
nana89
sherri09
h giest

You all should have received an email at your regular address! If you didn’t, PM Charlene thru GW!

These two people she was able to send a Private Message to thru GW. If you didn’t receive it, PM Charlene!
Gjmancini
foxes garden

These people I’ve either found email addresses in my address book or got the address from your bio page on GW. I’ve sent them to Charlene, and you should receive an email from her in the next day or so. If you don’t, PM her in a couple days! (I don’t know if all the addresses I had were still good or not!)
Polygonum
billie ladybug
bloomingamaryllis + 1
lindy lou
mutajen

And these people don’t have their email addresses made public on their bio pages, so the only way to contact them is with a Private Message. That’s ok, but I don’t want to send a bunch of PM’s and get blocked from RMG too, so the six of you will need to PM Charlene thru GW and send her your regular email address so she can send you the info you’ll need to come! I just reread Charlene’s email, and apparently some of you have PM’d her, but the way your account is set up your email address was blocked, so when you PM her you need to put your address into the message itself. I thought whenever you PM’d somebody they got your address, I know mine is set up that way, but apparently you can set it to keep your address private when you PM people!
autodidact
Laura42
dryad58
mayberrygardener
phloxy mary
tequilagirl

Here’s a direct link to Charlene’s contact page!

After you PM her, post here that you did so she can let you know if she doesn’t get it!

If you’re just signing up to come to the swap now, post your intentions here or on the original Spring Swap Thread and PM Charlene at the link above with your email address immediately.

For those of you who haven’t hosted a swap, there really is a lot of work that goes into doing it, and there isn’t going to be time to come looking for you if you don’t respond here. For those of you that need to, PM Charlene as soon as possible, and, for everyone, if you haven’t heard from her within the next few days, PM Charlene or me so we can try to be sure everyone gets all the info they need. We hope to get the info to all of you, and hope you’ll all be able to make it.

Everybody, if you know any or all of the things you’re planning to bring, go to the Swap Picture Thread and give us a heads up so we can salivate over it. And, while you’re there, check out the things that have already been posted and let people know if there’s anything you’d like earmarked for you.

Not long now! Help us make it another successful Spring Swap!

Skybird

I had a thought: I'm a newbie, so I'm just thinking how I would set up this site. There is a specific "Get Togethers" forum for swaps and other, well, get togethers! I was thinking that that forum might be set up with different restrictions, and the planners wouldn't get shut out in a similar situation? Maybe next time we should post the thread there, with a link to RMG or something... Heck, I dunno--tell me to shut up and butt out! I'm always thinking like an end-user, and not a programmer, so my thought process is probably totally foreign to the peeps that set up GW!

Anyway, I am SO excited for next weekend, and am going to see if I can figure out how to post pictures of those sweet williams I had offered up... They WILL be in full bloom by next Saturday! Huge thanks in advance to Charlene & Skybird for all the efforts in putting this thing together!

Seriously, I haven’t had time to post this, but now it looks like Charlene probably wasn’t locked out, but that GW is having a problem with people who use Macs and a specific browser. I leave again tomorrow, so I don’t have time to do it now, but when I get back—at midnite on Saturday (actually, after I sleep for most of Sunday!), I’m gonna email her and see if she’s back in. I was in contact with somebody from GW and she was gonna email that person and................

I don’t know what’s happened since then! Now that I know she wasn’t "locked out," I’ll PM the few remaining people if necessary, but I’m still hoping more people see this and PM her or me with their "real" addresses. That would sure make it easier. Since we don’t know for sure if she’s getting PM’s from GW, if you PM me your address, I’ll forward it to her so she can send you the location information—or easier yet, I’ll forward the location email directly to you.

Gotta go for now. Have to finish dinner—which is getting cold as I type this—and go to bed!

BTW, I did try posting on the get togethers forum the year before we had the first swap. Nobody on RMG saw it! It works ok here—if we can get the connection to Charlene’s computer hooked back up!

Finger’s crossed for good weather,
Skybird

We'll get it to you one way or another,
Skybird

Skybird

I just PM’d
Laura 42
Phloxy Mary
TequilaGirl

That should be the last three that we don’t have email addresses for yet. When I get their addresses I’ll send them Charlene’s info email.

IF THERE’S ANYONE BESIDES THE 3 LISTED ABOVE WHO HAVEN’T GOTTEN THE EMAIL WITH CHARLENE’S ADDRESS, PM ME NOW!

And, AutoDidact, I still need a response from you re: my two messages above.

Skybird

Skybird

I talked to admin and they instructed me on a few more things I could do and it worked!!!!!

I'm sorry for any inconvenience my non-computer-techy may have caused!

Can't wait til Saturday. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Charlene

AUTODIDACT — Both Charlene and I have tried to email you, and the comcast address isn’t working for either of us. Please PM one of us with a different address to try or enable PM’ing on GW so se can contact you that way—but I suspect Charlene would rather send her address directly to an email address, rather than running it thru the GW system.

LAURA 42 AND PHLOXY MARY, we still need email addresses for you so we can send you the address and directions. Please PM Charlene or reply to the email I sent you via GW.

Charlene, if you’re able to contact any of the last 3 above, let me know, and if I do, I’ll let you know.

The weather reports now are for mid 60's to 70, depending on who’s doing the forecasting, but still only a slight chance for rain, so still sounding pretty good!

See you all Saturday,
Skybird