I've been browsing my favorite blogs for a suitable cranberry sauce recipe to make for Thanksgiving, and I stumbled across The Pioneer Woman. Now, I've enjoyed her website in the past, but I had never really spent a lot of time there beyond reading a recipe or two. Today I decided to poke around a little more, and I realize that I definitely have a blog crush on PW. There, I said it.
One part of her website really spoke to me today. On the Ten Important Things I’ve Learned About Blogging page, #2 really resonated with me. PW says:
Blog often.
Whether you write a sixteen-paragraph essay about the cosmic implications of a free market system, a one-paragraph description of what happens to your soul when you walk into your godforsaken laundry room, or a simple photo and caption, consider your blog a precious bloom that requires daily nurturing.
And watering.
If you water a plant once every two weeks, it will shrivel.
Unless that plant is a cactus, and then it would thrive.
And to tell you the truth, I really can’t figure out how a cactus fits into this analogy, so forget I brought it up.
I loved it. And felt a little guilty for neglecting my beloved blog! So, PW, thank you for the tip and for inspiring me to post anything — even this:
It's a blurry photograph (wrong lens setting on the old camera) of me and my questionable Sunday morning hair holding a giant red pepper in RTM last weekend. The produce place there had a whole bin of them — they were practically the size of my head!
Y'know, i think this is a really busy time of year with the clocks a changin' and all, im feeling the pinch too. Ive just come back from the states and feel an absolute urge to celebrate Thanksgiving...me thinks a massive culinary feast :-)
ReplyDeleteI say do it! I have a friend who married an Aussie and makes a giant feast for her in-laws every year in Australia...it's a rare combination of foods that you don't get any other time of the year!
ReplyDeleteI truly loved hearing about your NY adventures. You were there at my absolute favorite time of year (I'm just a bit south in Philadelphia, so it is similar). Hope you enjoyed yourself! :)
Man, your head is big
ReplyDeleteLOL--love you pepper head!
ReplyDeleteI went to the Pioneer Woman site you mentioned above...wow! Very enjoyable. Thanks and keep writing!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it lovely? She's got a similar situation of city gal meets midwestern guy...except he's a cattle herder and she moved to him. :)
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