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May Florida receive rain and your plants do well. The thought of anyone in a tropical place not taking advantage of planting baffles a Canadian but indeed start by babying what you have. I sprinkle seeds everywhere there is soil. Happy Earth Day! Let's do what we can for the bees and for the Earth! I see there are still free seed sets available in Canada: BringBackTheBees.ca.
Friends and readers! How is spring emerging where you live? If you are gardeners: let's start talking!!!! :-)I remembered well in advance what April 22 is, therefore here is an extra special hello from me: HAPPY EARTH DAY, EVERYONE! Canadians: there might still be flower free seed packages at BringBackTheBees.ca. The United States likely has a similar program. If they have run out, goodness knows Dollarama has ample seeds for only .32c each and Giant Tiger's are a similar bargain. Get growing!
One of our categories is celebrations and traditions. I wish a happy Easter and peaceful long week-end to all my people! Yours warmly, Carolyn & our cat family.
Readers: I updated the URL where I wrote an article about the need to build cell phone etiquette: because it is a new technology that has not been engrained into us for centuries like many manners we follow instinctively. I hope you read it and also pass it along. We will start somewhere. :) https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...
This blurb you answered is only an example, to show where the article. It covers a lot of angles and I hope folks read it before making conclusions. :) https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...
I hope you read my article because it is a very important topic that needs to be nipped in the bud. This is just to lead you there. I make time to blog so seldom, when I do it's something I really wanna share.My article doesn't ask if folks are used to ignorant gadget behaviour but explains why it ain't cool. Really lays out a good layer of reasons. Forward it to your friend! For instance: why are they looking for messages from other people, when you have all set aside time so they can be with you? E-mails, letters, etc are supposed to be a way to be in touch when you can't be together in person; to tide over the meantime. Well.... there she is with a person in front of her and she gives her attention to the facsimile?
She defeats the purpose of the gadget: staying in touch with friends you can't see. The reason that you can't concretely tell if you should consider it rude is another symptom of something new that needs etiquette created for it to guide us. You must have manners of the true southern belle I've always heard about. :-)
Very happy to see you set up here and in the My Kind Of Mystery thread. If you are filling the review pages at the blog, that has me happy. Here, you need only cite the URL of your own blog's update page in each of these spots. People can visit the review page and your blog's list. It can simply be about conversation here. Definitely no need to update both places. Do note that earlier up in the "any topics" thread, I wished you and later Ron, a happy birthday! :-)
Has the way friends or family seem addicted to their cell phones bothered you? I got fed up enough to think about why and it dawned on me that we need an etiquette for it. A lot of etiquette is trained in us from millenia of courtesy but this is new: carrying your home office wherever you go. I believe we need to ask guests to please turn off cell phones when they come to our homes and if you aren't quite comfortable teaching the new manners in your own words: you might like sharing my article! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my dear, loving spouse, Ron!With kisses from your best girl and kitties: McCartney, Spirit, Conan, Petal, Marigold, Angel, and always Lovey too.
Happy ST. PATRICK'S DAY to all of my people!
I am taking my time putting together my well-wishing mail that needs to go out this month and all of it will be tardly. Nicer packages than just an envelope in the mail but I don't want friends and family doubting their special days are being honoured. So to our great conversationalist and high-volume fellow reader, whose special day was this week, I am leaving an internet greeting so she knows she is not forgotten. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, all the way to Florida from us, Erin!
Louis Riel was an important figure in Canada. An biography I read of his Grandma only a few years ago, Marianne Lagimodiere, was extraordinary and explained where we got the names of many of my home city streets! She was considered the Mother of Manitoba. She was the first white woman settler, befriending and living right along with all the Metis women. Later, her Grandson (from her youngest child, Julie) would fight for Metis rights and hang for it. His home is minutes from where I grew up.Only a few years ago, Canada chose him to make a statuatory holiday in February: today. In honour of one of my ancestors and someone who cared about equal rights two-hundred years ago: HAPPY LOUIS RIEL DAY!
I hope all of our members and their families had a wonderful St. Valentine's! I didn't date at an early age, so all through my teens, I either was relieved to think of Valentine's day as my close friend's birthday and also adopted the regard I maintain today. That it is a fun holiday to wish friends and family and not reserved for our romantic halves.I couldn't get to so much mail lately but I like to send a card to my toddler niece and nephew in Toronto, my parents, and to my middle brother and his wife and kitty. That grey beauty, Lopez, has had serious health issues due to diabetes and is only 13 (cats can live twice as long) so I hope you wouldn't mind praying for him along with us.
On some occasions I've mailed those little school-size valentines to friends too. Either they get a smile out of it, or if they happen to be single, they are happy to be included in the holiday. And everyone loves mail! Ron & I exchange gifts like at Christmas and my birthday, except smaller-scale; which is a blessing because those two occasions are very far away. It is a relief to have celebrations I am a part of and treats to enjoy well before November rolls around for me again! Ron bought my fill at the latest charity used book sale and I allowed him to choose snacks and any useful items he wanted (like socks he needed). I told him he spent enough on those books but he surprised me with two chocolate hearts yesterday as well! Xoxoxoxo from me to you!
Thank you, Sue! You too! Gosh, so many to choose and read. If your house is well-stocked like ours, here to breezing through another good dent of it. I am glad to finally know you received and enjoyed my Christmas card. I have always loved knowing my mail lights people up, when it arrives on its travels. :)
I am happy to chat but this is my blog post where I will update the mystery books I read and review. I hope you visit, comment, and garner nice ideas! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...
Our Gentle Spectrums review page is finished and our RIEDEL Fascination year starts tomorrow! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/gentle...Each of these took a lot of work because I like my review pages to be clear and nicely decorated with pretty book covers. Those take a lot of thought and are never random. I choose a book cover that matches the alphabet span but also one I have read or am going to. I hope everyone peeks into our review pages to follow our entries, whether or not they are doing it themselves.
Our CELTIC COASTS second year's review page is ready too! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/celtic...All this page-making has been tremendous time and work. I hope people stream in to join us! (Yes, I always advertize at "A Novel Challenge". What we still need is GREAT word-of-mouth). I might take a break before tackling our "Gentle Spectrums" review page because it requires 11 linky buttons, not counting a "wrap up post" button, if you would like to have one. However we are in the home stretch and my blog's menu tabs are already set!
ETHEREAL'S review page is active! Who will be first to join? :) https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/ethere...
Now that our four 2016 groups are closing, I found a place to add comment boxes to the review pages; all of which did not have them! You may certainly leave a word there now and I think winding down is a key time for them to be available. Comments matter to me, so I can't wait to hear how you did with your reading! :) Wordpress must have made changes because comment boxes came with posts and pages automatically. Posts still seem to.For the new pages, which are all up and running (yay!) there is an option for a different comment box style, while you are making them. Now that I know where to check-box comments on finished pages, I guess I could experiment with the four review pages I am working on and see if the standard Wordpress comment box is there automatically. I know where to correct it with a checkmark if it isn't. The reason I didn't spot them until now is because I happened to edit a post a different way, pressing "edit" at the bottom of the page. I edit through the post and page tab of my blog's dashboard. This is better at keeping formatting intact but the comment option doesn't appear.
