Gracious, Remember When

A recent comment started me to thinking about  what Blogspot was like  circa 2010.

How we got so far away from 2010 is mind boggling. Remember the days of comment glitches, and every time Blogger changed something or added a new feature, things got wonky? Do you remember when the new magazine style templates were added to Themes?

I thought then that they would be very popular. Without statistics, a guess wouldn’t be useful. 

Fun question : What are things you remember about Blogspot from 15 years ago?

Than you for visiting

May

Dollar General purchase
Planting 2 every 4 days
to spread out the blooming times

A Saturday summery view

Visitor numbers here have been low. (yesterday’s post deleted). The last few days, the amount of visitors has decreased to a few dozen. When compared to the age of this blog, that’s sad. 

The amount of comments, however, has always remained steady with highs and lows, but never a very high count. 

In summary, this is not a successful blog. It isn’t a bad blog though. There is a difference. I don’t network as much since depression is heavier. I expected a decrease in readers, but not the low recorded now. 

About popularity 

Popularity in this style of blogging, IMHO, will always have genuine folks in the audience. Those out looking to build a brand or followers, in general, will not stick around. That makes sense. 

What seems to attract visitors in blogging:

Major city base like NYC 

Big house, land, pets, posting often, as in puts the work into blogging good content

Signs of wealth and/or fame

Travel news

Follows high end bloggers

Educational content, tutorials, giveaways

What do you think?

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Thank you for visiting,

May

Day 100 of Week 15 April 2026

Any day now

In 3 weeks, one third of 2026 will be in our past. The weeks at this point on day 100, don’t feel like they are flying by. At the end of March, the speed of time felt fast. Why not now? Are there months that are inherently slower? 

Sure. That makes sense to me. Early Spring has always felt easy, calmer, less intense to me than Winter. Anticipation of blizzards and freezing temperatures greatly decrease as the April days go by. 

Question: Is Earth’s rotation speed constant all year?

Internet search results: No

Climate change has slowed the rotation speed of Earth…at a slower rate than in 3.6 million years, according to LiveScience.com. 

Have a Lively Weekend

Dance

Play a board game

Talk with friends

Read about Earth wind patterns

Bake a custard pie

Tell a raincoat a funny story

Browse sleeping bags online

After a Novel

After you finish reading a book, do you ever have the sense of feeling eager to know what is next? 

After reading a novel, I feel like I just came out of a dark movie theater into daylight. Open to new ideas. From the narrative, images created in my imagination play as my brain voice with closed captions without the sound on. 

This summer’s reading list for me, will a variety of genres, a biography, and one re-read title, as opposed to all mysteries. 

Any recommendations for a biography is appreciated. Thank you

Summer Reading List in progress

Re-read: 1984, G. Orwell

Biography: Emerson: Days of Encounter, J. J. McAleer, Little, Brown & Company, 1984

Mystery Thrillers:

First Lie Wins, A. Elston
Heartwood, A. Gaige

The Old Bookmark

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I had to start over editing.

All the work put into editing this post disappeared. The page is not in browser history. Blogspot typing page is full of glitches. Add italics or underline is a major hassle. The cursor returns to the top of the page instead of where in the text you are typing. Huge glitch. 

Add Normal for the paragraphs is also a major hassle. Add photos places them on the top of the page instead of where you place the cursor. You have to cut and paste photos when typing and then adding pictures. 

The Benefit of Fake Flowers

Flowers are the best interior fake it tool for signaling one’s spirits to be in a good mood. I have all sorts of fabric flowers and greenery around all year. As soon as winter is over on the calendar, up goes the big forsythia and pussywillow stems. They are wedged into my vintage storm window and old cabinet door divider.

One of the most beautiful signs of Spring is a wild mass of real forsythia shrubs in full flower. On Route 7 in New Haven, Vermont and as you go south into Middlebury Vermont, there are rows of stunning forsythia. 

There was another location, but I think it was chopped down years ago. I see that happen on home renovation shows, forsythia and sometimes old lilac trees are removed as if they are useless. Sad it is. 

This is a good time of year in northern climates to plant forsythia in the ground. If you have the room, especially a corner where it can grow wild (no shape pruning), then check out your local garden nurseries for forsythia. 

Faux flowers