Tuesday 4: Blogging

 

Tuesday 4


Blogging

Thank you to our friend Annie from Cottage by the Sea for putting this together for us each week, in memory of our friend Toni Taddeo.

Today's questions are about blogging!

This is where I sit to write to you each day, my "Room With a View". This is how it looks right now, early morning light...Still Waters Pond is just becoming visible as the sun rises behind us in the east. 

1. How often do you blog? What helps you blog.. what hinders you?

I try to blog at least 3 or 4 times a week, if not every day.  Some weeks are too busy and I just don't have the time to put it all together, but then I feel like I've missed out on the daily communication between friends, and so I try to jump back in and stay "in the game" so I don't miss out on visits with special people that I've met here through blogging over the past 10 or more years.

What helps me blog? Wanting to chronicle daily living, as well as share things that I find helpful to me and I hope may be of some help to others...sharing God's Word with you as He blesses my life through the reading of the scriptures...and so often it seems that what He is sharing with me seems to bless others as well...like it was meant for YOU as much as it was meant for me!

What hinders me?  Well, daily living...getting too busy to keep up with it...LIFE. I try to keep a balance between what I do here and what I am doing in my home and with family. I don't ever want this to become more important than being with the ones who are truly right here in my home/family/church...and yet, I have found that I feel just as connected to many of you in "blogland" as I do to those here in my "real world".  We have formed bonds and connections that are real and true and good...we care about each other and pray for one another and look forward to daily conversations...so I try to keep up the best I can.

2. What benefits do you get from blogging? Are there any?

1.  Making new friends!

2. Learning from my new friends...about life, cooking, cleaning, hobbies, fun ideas, travel, seeing how people live in different parts of the country/world

3.  Keeping my own mind sharp as I try to write and think of things to say and to say them in a way that is clear and concise and hopefully interesting and somewhat entertaining.

4.  Again, this is a journal of sorts of my own life, and oftentimes the things I am writing about are to chronicle events or memories for future generations, or just for me to be able to go back remember. I don't know that my family will ever read any of this after I'm gone, but it's there if they want it.  They can't say I never shared any memories with them. This is how I am attempting to do it since we all stay too busy to just sit down and talk about "the good old days".

3. Have you ever changed your blog theme?

Click HERE for a link to when it all began.  I have kept this same title and theme ever since I started it.  I have added other side blogs along the way, like my current one, The Adventures of Lily Grace, and a previous one that is no longer active but still available to read, Ben's Country Woodshop, which was a blog about my son's woodworking business when he first got started, but now he is busy with a much bigger business and his own furniture and coastal decor store with his lovely wife Rose, Dixie Cottage.  So no time for keeping up with that blog.  

Even though the idea of "Closed Doors, Open Windows", doesn't always come out in every blog post, the underlying theme is still there as we walk through this journey called "life".  When God closes one door, He always opens another...or a "window" into a new world, a new perspective, a new dream, a better understanding of the bigger picture of the life that God can see that we cannot quite fathom yet. But someday it will all make sense to us as we walk by faith and put our trust in the One Who loves us so much that He was willing to sacrifice His own life so that we could one day enter heaven and live with Him eternally...That's really what this blog is all about.

Click Here for a previous post about this same topic.

4. Where do you get your ideas for blog posts?

From Nature, Sunrises, Sunsets, Family, Holidays, God's Word the Bible, Celebrations, World Events, whatever my camera focuses on...I do love to include pictures in my posts, as you all are well aware.  I always say "A picture is worth a thousand words", and then I continue to write about a 1000 words to go along with the picture...so you get a real bargain...two for the price of one!  And sometimes, like today, I get my ideas from YOU, from yours posts and memes and ideas you share may spark a memory or an idea in my little head and I start writing.  I am always happy for new ideas and look forward to the things you share because I learn so many wonderful things from each of you.  

Well, I've rambled on long enough for this post. I hope you are all thinking and writing and sharing your ideas with us.  And thank you, Annie, for keeping this going in Toni's memory. I know she would be so pleased to see us here each week!!

Here's some "food for thought" as we close out today...Candy Corn!! Hey or Nay? Have you tried it with peanuts? It tastes like a PayDay Candy Bar!   

Okay, Bye for now! Keep Writing!