THE SUMMATIONS OF “FROM A SIMPLE MIND”…
Saturday, March 05, 2005
From a Simple Mind
Going to try this out... I am
just a word tosser... but a lazy one... don't know if I have enough in my mind
to do a daily blog. So don't expect much...
Hopefully I can give you the 4 W and 1 H.. WHO, WHAT, WHY AND WHERE.. AND HOW of the blog in a page of how it came about.. and what happen thru the years. The joys as well as the sorrows and the humor of it.
As you can
see it was late at night as I ventured the words to set it up the page.. I had read Marianne Love’s Slight
Detour.. about her life in general on
her farm, about local stuff and more..
up in the right hand corner was an ad from Blogspot.. Start your own Blog .. it is as easy as
1-2-3… I thought.. can I do this? I did
hang out at DFO’s blog on the
My purpose
was to have a soap box to stand on for some of my opinions. And if you have your own blog.. people don’t
seem to grand slam you… like they do on
Facebook nowdays. Also I wrote for humor..
So over the
years, there were stories of humor which most of the time was about my trying
to do my own projects. Most were done while the King was gone for class down
south of our state for his job. Doing
things I had asked him to do for a long time.. so I would just go ahead and do
them myself.. I AM NOT A CRAFT PERSON.. and BARELY hold my own on
projects. If you read my blog you saw
what I mean. And if it could go wrong it
did..
Over the
years, I took my readers with me.. on my
soap box as the government or just life in general was going awry. I took them
to events in our local area.. the Lost
in the 50’s parade and downtown
show.. to the 4th July
parade.. altering between Sandpoint and
There has
been sorrow, as we lost people.. I lost my uncle and then my aunt who was like
a mother to me.. I lost my brother. We lost friends.. we lost brothers of the King’s.. and his
sister, who taught us how to recover from a family member, who commits suicide
leaving a note of LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH, yet celebrate her life. We lost our oldest daughter who pass with no
warning, from a major heart attack on her lawn.. these ripping our hearts out
and we learn how to keep going. We have
lost some long time friends.. Helped their families with their lost. Helping
the sisters of one, clean out his house,
There has
been Joy.. when I started the blog, I believe I had about 16 or 17
grandchildren.. we have 20 now.. I
started out the blog with about 2 or 3 great grandchildren.. we have 37 at last total.. AND NOW in June.. we will celebrate the coming
of our GREAT GREAT grandchild.. our first.
Hopefully God will be kind and let me live long enough to met her, and
have a 5 generation picture taken.. And
not pass as kindred spirits on our coming and going.
So much that has happen since I started the
blog. A man saw my blog and asked me about one of the things I did.. with my
children. So I wrote that up and sent it to him for him to do for a paper in
college. There were stories of the
past. How I use to smash vehicles with
my deceased husband in the 1970’s. How I did one of the loads myself. While I
waited for his return from a job search that did not pan out.. I told about how we traveled across the
country from
It was been
fun.. it has been sad.. it has been a blast, it has been maddening.. My post have been .. not bad.. boring..
phone in… and informational.. and some actually were pretty good. As I went back to find a couple to fill in..
as I looked back over my blog.. I was surprised at how well I wrote a story,
how some were actually out loud funny..
but I guess it is me.. So for
all my readers.. those (only a few who
stuck it out for the 20 years) and for
those who dropped by and dropped out.. some who just came in the past
year.. THANK YOU for stopping by. Hope you found it worthy. By the way,
I think one or two of my kids actually read a post or two.. but
definitely not followers. Even one of my
daughter in laws read my blog… I guess to find out what kind of family did she
marry into.. but the good news after reading
it.. she likes me.. lol.
So that is good.
There are a
lot of bloggers I have met over the years.
DFO use to have BLOGFEST a couple of times.. and I went to a few. There
is some friendships I gained thru the blog, one of which we still are good friends,
sadly we don’t get to gether often enough. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS.. she is now a
author of children books. She has 4 I
think out for the public to buy.. you can find them on Amazon..Mari Meehan… look for them. it is about a dog called
Slobbers..
Marianne
Love is still writing her SLIGHT DETOUR.. so check her out. Sadly there are a lot of them who have
past. Even family members gave it a
shot. My oldest who passed wrote, her son in law has.. and our nephew Travis did before he passed
away from a car accident injuries. Now
there is a guy I sooooooo totally miss. Travis was an unusual guy, he had such
a great grip on life. Common sense, and he could see beyond the face value. I give anything to sit with him and ask him
what he thinks about politics since he left us. The Obama President time
line… and definitely would love to sit
there and hear what he has to say about Trump.
There are many who we use to write back and forth about our blogging..
who have passed.
While life has been up and down for these 20 years.. I would not miss it for anything. Am I glad that, that late night I decided to give it a try.. OH HELL YES.. I have had as low as 6 readers, I average 8 to 12 readers.. and I have hit some great peaks of 80 to 120…
My post
about the parades always got good numbers as they knew I had a lot of pictures
of the parade. And in the hay day of HBO with DFO.. he would highlight some of my post.. but 8 or 100 it was still worth it. Some came years after I posed it.. guess the internet pick it up for with a catch word.. and then they would come to be on the list of
wanted notification of when I posted.. there were many many names I never heard
of. So that was cool.. that they read it
and wanted to come back..
Well, I hope
I answered the W’s and the H.. of the series.
Here is to
one more day.. Don’t know if I will
write more. Or just put the words up..
BYE.. so nice to know you..
2 comments:
It takes grit, discipline, determination and a desire to share with the outside world to keep a blog going for a few days, let alone 20 years. Congratulations on reaching your milestone, and thanks for all the memories. It's been fun to click on your site and to see what's on your mind with each post. Wishing you the best and thanking you for hanging in there. I'm sure your family and friends have appreciated your efforts.
thank you Marianne, keep yours going.. it is nice to go read and see your pictures... a calming time that there are still good things in life.. so keep it coming ....until it isn't fun anymore..
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