Hours on the Computer

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My daughter feels that she "wastes so much time" on the computer on social media.  She gets mad at herself.
For me, every morning, I check my email, then check FaceBook to see whats going on.  

I've never become a Twitter person.

I think it moves too fast for me and is confusing.

I'm sure it's my age!!
And then there's Pinterest.  I love it but it sure is a time user-upper!
Pinterest is the reason I have so many recipes!!

My favorite computer time is the time I spend blogging or looking at other people's blogs.

I try to get to at least a few of my favorites even though I don't always leave a comment.

I know I should.  After all I love getting comments on mine.

Blog hopping is the perfect thing to do in the mornings, in the winter 

when it's really cold and snowy outside.  (Like today!)
I have my cup of tea or coffee and am toasty warm
(and thankfully listening to my boiler pumping away).
I started blogging in 2009 after reading BNOTP, faithfully for a couple months.
http://betweennapsontheporch.net/
I loved her photos and her house.
She had one picture of an old white painted chair with a pot of red geraniums sitting on it.
I copied it and I was hooked.
It was in one of my very first blogs.
http://shirleys-world.blogspot.com/2009/05/white-chairs-and-geraniums.html

Right now I'm reading Susan Branch's blog everyday.
It is so homey and wonderful and includes all her beautiful drawings.
http://www.susanbranch.com/

There's so many of my favorites that I follow.  They are down in my right hand sidebar.
As you can see, there's a lot of them!
The blog that got me started with my chicken keeping is here:
http://www.fresheggsdaily.com/

For wonderful recipes and a beautiful farm this is a great one.
http://designsbygollum.blogspot.com/
This is where to find the great link party called "Foodie Friday".

Well, it's already after noon.  See how that goes!!!
Till tomorrow.

Shirley

Blogging Help plus One Dead Tree

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I mean, I'm asking for help or your opinion.

I've been blogging for quite a while.
Since 2009 I think.
After all this time I haven't really decided a niche for myself.
I mean some say that's what you should do.
Write on one subject.
I just write about everyday in the life of me and that has a whole lot of different subjects.
The thing that worries me is that my page views are dropping.
I mean, I never had a huge amount but they have dropped more than half.
I try to write a couple times a week; sometimes more, but it doesn't seem to make a difference!
If anyone out there has any ideas, please tell me!!
Leave me a comment.
I love comments!

OK
For today I want to tell you about my problem of a tall dead pine tree; well actually two!
(Sorry, that's my finger over the lens!)

Maybe you can see the wires going through the tree on this side of the trunk.
They are the main wires that supply electricity to my house!!
I've called a professional tree maintenance guy to come to take the tree down.
He's coming to look at it tomorrow.
I hope this doesn't cost a fortune!!
I can just see me burning the pile of brush in the foreground there, and a spark making that tree go up like a torch!!
Scary stuff.

Shirley

Don't forget to let me know your opinion about my blogging.
Thanks!!

Problems?

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Is anyone else having Blogger problems. I can't upload any photos. It says there's an internal error. Everything else working fine. This is maddening!!!

Shirley

Never mind . . . I just asked Blogger and they are doing maintenance and the image uploader is temporarily unavailable. Well, at least I know it's not my computer! That's always comforting.