So, I’ve stepped out on the blog dance floor without a partner. I’ve been sitting on the sidelines voyeuristically waiting, I guess, for someone to ask for this dance. Then it hits me: blogging is pole dancing. No partners needed, no ones toes to trounce..
But you still gotta get the rhythm. I thought I had it goin’ on becauses I love to write emails so much. But my own favorite blogs are the ones with lots of links and other good stuff. I’m not too much on all the little widgets yet, but if anyone has suggestions, sock it to me.
The national weather media thought that my geographical area was important enough to warrant extreme tornado vigilance and constant weather updates all day yesterday. Then in this morning's paper: http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Dato=20110417&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=417009997&Ref=PH&pl=1
Oakley Plantation suffered nary a scratch (nor any significant rainfall)
The squall line that approached over the weekend was well advertised since Wednesday last. I planned my gardening around the impending doom, and today, after it has all passed, I am feeling quite smug. I prepared for hail, and didn’t plant my tomato and pepper plants ahead of the storms. I did however discover a source for compost material (I’ve not lived here long enough to build up a good compost). So I spent a couple of hours in the red-bud hedge line raking out some pretty decent humis while the winds picked up and the clouds flew by. I wish I had my camera charged and ready, and alas, I missed some excellent moody cloud pix. (Resolve to keep camera nearby for blog visuals). After all the weather hype, the tornadoes and hail bypassed my area, giving just a sprinkle or two of rain and some healthy wind gusts.
And today, Sunday, I wrap up the weekend with almost all my goals accomplished, including e-filing my tax returns, getting tomatoes and peppers and corn planted and last but not least, a blog entry downloaded!
Here are some photos to prove it.
Silas and Grandma Pipkin at her recent birthday
Double WOW. Excellent job. I'm so much closer to completing my taxonomical chart of the the furry and furless Dobyns's. Now if we could just get Perry and Silas to share in this long overdue study, we'd be getting somewhere. I understand Silas, with his cellphone camera, was something of a vanguard in this field of science. Blog on my wayward amiga. Blog on.
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