When I actually remember it is Tuesday, I follow Annie @Tuesday 4 . She poses 4 questions following a particular theme. Come on and join in this week's theme about blogging.
1. How often do you blog?
I generally blog a few times a week
What helps you blog.. what hinders you?
I have 3 days per week that I have a set blog theme. Mondays are my meal plan (or no meal plan as the case may be), Tuesdays are for Tuesday 4 (if I remember it is Tuesday ), and Friday for 2021 is set aside for my weekly joy list. I use that post as a virtual diary to keep up with the specifics of each day's joys. Then on New Year's Eve I reread each day of the year's particular joy. It keeps me looking at the positive instead of dwelling on the negative.
Time hinders my posting more than anything.2. What benefits do you get from blogging? Are there any?
I have no idea if I get anything personally from just the act of posting, but I feel very fortunate to have "met" some lovely people from all over the world I would never have known otherwise. How cool is it that some old gal from Alabama has virtual friends who allow me to share snippets of their lives with them.
I also have met one online friend in real life and have spoken with a couple of others, and that is one of the biggest payoffs yet!
3. Have you ever changed your blog theme?
Yes, it began just to share recipes with a few friends. Now it is not recipe focused, but still somewhat food related with some music I share on nearly every single post. I love music as much (or more) as I love cooking.
4. Where do you get your ideas for blog posts?
I don't really have grand ideas for my blog posts. I have always lived a fairly typical life and covid has brought with it a whole new level of simplicity to my days. So now, I guess I could post about watching the house behind mine being flipped and how the flipper has changed it from a lovely brick home to a gigantic white monolith, but who really wants to hear about that?
Update of the great white monolith. The photo makes it look gray but it is white, and the lawn looks really nice. Photo shop I am guessing because there is very little lawn and what is there is patchy and bare. It also does not look like it is at the top of a very steep driveway. The miracles of photography
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"So now, I guess I could post about watching the house behind mine being flipped and how the flipper has changed it from a lovely brick home to a gigantic white monolith, but who really wants to hear about that?".
ReplyDeleteNow you KNOW I want to hear all about that! I shriek with anticipation over it....
Hahahaha. I have watched them every day and keep wondering how much money they can possibly put into one house.
DeleteHa ha, I am reading slugmama's comment above, and she and I both want to know more about your neighbor's house being flipped into a gigantic white monolith...yikes, that sounds really scary!! Why DO people paint beautiful brick homes??? Do you live near Chip and Joanna Gaines by chance? LOL. Although I loved Fixer Upper, I didn't always agree with what they did to "lovely brick homes". Oh well...to each his own, right? I enjoyed your post and learning more about who you are and what you do and why you do it! Or at least why you blog... we all have our reasons, but I'm not sure any of us really expected that we would end up with friends from all over the country/world that we "talk" to on a regular basis and may never meet in person (or we might!), but we still feel like old friends. I love it. It's a great "open window" into the world! Please take care and have a blessed and wonderful week. Thanks for playing along.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I will have to do some post on my Gladys Kravitz behavior and the house behind mine.
DeleteBlogging has opened up my small little world!
Thanks for the picture and update on the white monolith. Yeah, I agree it is a white monolith...why oh why? But that's what people seem to want these days. I hope they will do some landscaping around the front. It looks kinds of plain. Very interesting! Maybe you can get pictures of the inside when the "complete renovation" is done! Fun fun fun.
DeleteI enjoyed reading your answers and learning some about your blogging history.
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed learning about so many different people through blogs!
DeleteSince I haven't been blogging for a week or so (back tomorrow I hope), it made me realize how much blogging clears my head, in a way. I mean, it gets stuff out of my scrambled up brain and down on paper and I find it really helps (although really I blog for "later", when I'm no longer here, in the hope that someone in my family will enjoy reading about "the olden days")!
ReplyDeleteI think DIL2 is the only one in my family who reads my blog, so I am definitely not writing for posterity.
DeleteI enjoyed reading your answers as well as everyone else. Keep the recipe coming.
ReplyDeleteI try to post an occasional recipe, but we have been eating on the fly lately and I have not tried anything new and different.
DeleteI am so very grateful to have found the blogosphere and so many wonderful people here who give me a window into their world. I laugh with them, I cry with and for them, and I learn from them. And yes, of course I include you.
ReplyDeleteI am with you on the laughing and crying for my blog friends, and find I ache silently right along with them in their darker times.
DeleteIsn't it funny how each of us has different ideas about blogging and yet we all are so similar in some ways? I have met SLuggy and she is so important to me. Plus I can look back and see where my life was and how much better it is now financially.
ReplyDeleteYour life is better because you listened to the master (and now have a found coin challenge)!
DeleteI think everyone starts a blog with a specific vision, then the lines blur and it morphs into whatever it becomes. Even for those of us with dark hearts!
Lots of houses being flipped around here too but they all look alike inside it seems.
ReplyDeleteI give these flipper a big fat zero for creativity. After painting the brick they removed all the personality from the house and left this big white building that looks lifeless. The money would have been better spent putting on a new roof and repairing the fence that is about to fall down
DeleteOh, please, add me to the list of those who'd like to hear more about the house being flipped!
ReplyDelete:D By the way, I am very glad you decided to blog and I found it (not quite sure how, but, I think I read a comment you left on someone's blog, several years ago - I think back when you were trying to do a grocery challenge - $50 a month or something like that).
By the way, just for fun, I clicked on the "Translate" button at the top of your blog and read it in Sinhala! It was quite entertaining! :D
I wonder what I said in Sinhala? Given my penchant for idioms and southernese there is no telling!
DeleteFriendship is a great thing I got from blogging. It is so fun to meet new people. Loved your answers! Have a great week.
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I am with you Lori! Meeting and getting to know others is the best part of blog life!
DeleteSeveral years ago the brick house next door to mine was also made into a white whale. I am also amazed by all the wonderful people I've met through blogging, and that includes YOU!
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
I am beyond thrilled to have expanded my friendships with those I have met through blogging!
DeleteI discovered blogs late, but as the saying goes, better late than never! One of these days I'll start my own, tho I wouldn't know what to write about. My life is pretty dull. But I'm grateful for you and the other bloggers I've found, such interesting people all around the world! Celie
ReplyDeleteCelie no one's life is any more mundane than mine, yet here I am writing about my garden variety days!
DeleteI hate when flippers ruin houses! They can have a field day with my boring 80's version but leave brick alone. I for one am glad to have met you through blogging.
ReplyDeleteLikewise Sam! I am thrilled to have met so many interesting people through blogging.
DeleteI know the interior of this home is much better than it was, but I have a feeling I can predict exactly what it will look like since they seem to be following the flipping 101 plan.
Can't wait to see your update on your renovation. We are in the process of finishing an addition we are adding on to our home. It started in 2010 and has been a long slow process, but it is finally moving along. I love meeting all sorts of people through blogging.
ReplyDeleteThis is the house behind mine, not my reno. I don't want to renovate anything except my master bathroom!
DeleteI love meeting fellow bloggers or readers of blogs!
Oh, I really liked this theme, Anne. How fun.
ReplyDeleteThanks Belinda! It was kind of fun to think about.
DeleteI'm a once-a-week blogger. My posts take a bit of time to prepare, so that's about all I'm good for. :-) It's fun, though.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for your once a week posts, especially the libations. I have tried several and not had a bad experience with any, only because I am old enough to know I have limits!
DeleteI'm glad that I found your blog! :)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, on that white house. That is pretty awful. I'm sure it looked much better when it was brick.
I think it looked much better brick, of course it also used to have some shrubbery in the front to soften the edges a little.
DeleteI'm merely a once a week blogger, though will post in between if something out of the ordinary occurs. The benefits of blogging for me are many: it's a way to journal my thoughts and activities which I wouldn't like do otherwise, I think my writing has improved, but the primary benefit is virtually meeting people from different places. It's been fun and interesting to read about other people's lives and share in their ups and downs of life. I've learned a lot too from them - if I have to Google about something I've read it's a bonus.
ReplyDeleteMy blog is just a mishmash of stuff going on in my life, and I often wonder why anyone would take the time to read it. When I do get to travel, I love sharing the photos and experiences, and those posts are probably my favorites.
I actually started blogging for my cats before I started my own blog. It is still up and running but I only post a few times a year for them. When I started, there were four cats who were active - now down to two and both tend to sleep a lot, especially the oldest who was 21 in May.
The white house looks awful and do they really think that anyone who comes to view it won't notice that it looks nothing like the photoshopped version? If they're hiding that, what else are they hiding would be my thought.
I think meeting people from other places is wonderful. If not reading about your love of curling I would never have paused on a station recently that was showing a curling match (is that the correct term?)
ReplyDeleteIt is not my monkey or circus about the house other than being a spectator. I hope they get overbthe list price because it will only help us when we downsize.
You're always so organized. Yes, meeting people through blogging is the best. That's cool about the flipper house.
ReplyDeleteI have met so many interesting (much more interesting than me) through blogging
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