This morning I got an email from Earn A Degree Online, informing me I had been once again included in Growing Green at Home: The Top 35 Organic Gardening Blogs. Here is what they had to say about my blog.
Annie’s Kitchen Garden has chronicled her journeys to foreign lands, as she studies the various produce from far away lands. Annie has also included recipes for all of her documented fresh produce.
That made me spew my morning coffee all over my monitor! Maybe my tale of a trip to the dentist in Mexico constitutes chronicling my journey to foreign lands, but really......buying a bag of sweet potatoes from a roadside stand in Aguilla, Arizona cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered as studying the various produce from far away lands. Well, maybe if you're in Maine. Then possibly you'd consider Arizona to be a faraway land. Oh my, if I included recipes for all of my documented fresh produce, I'd never get out of the kitchen!
I'm afraid visitors who come to my blog via this article will be sorely disappointed!
Today I'll be planting my peppers. I woke up this morning with the realization that I had left peppers off of my planting calendar! How could that happen? Must have been a senior moment. Anyway, although I'm a few days late getting them planted, I'm hoping the bottom heat speeds up their germination. Everything, I mean everything else has already germinated, even the lobelia and parsley that I thought would take forever. The asparagus-crates-turned-nursery are both empty and waiting for the peppers and tomatoes.
I'm also going to get outside to do a bit more garden cleanup, even though my OLD body hurts from the small amount of work I did yesterday. I should have begun the gardening season with a few exercises to get in shape, but did I? Oh, no.....I can't do it the right way, I have to just jump right in and then suffer the consequences.
Hey Granny...maybe Annie has been doing some traveling that you're not aware of!
ReplyDeleteHave a good gardening day...I'm off to the plots!
Robin, about the farthest she travels is from her bed to her food dish, LOL! Can't you tell that from looking at her?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the first laugh of my day! I'm a jumper-inner too. Gardening as exercise is so erratic, I always need a day to recuperate for every day spent out there.
ReplyDeleteHilarious!! Your first two paragraphs had me laughing so hard, that it ended with unstoppable coughs(I'm still sick with cough and cold). That was one funny article!!!
ReplyDeleteAlison, just wait until you're my age, and you'll find it takes more than a day to recuperate! Once I start moving, I don't dare stop.
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Random, we can be sick together. My hips look like chipmunk cheeks, my jeans pockets are so stuffed with Kleenexes!
Granny be careful, some people don't let anything stop them from making their points even if they claim to be giving you some.. I've had a few try to advertise on my blog by making a comment...
ReplyDeleteHee-hee. :)
ReplyDeleteNot to worry, Ginny. This one has been around for a while, and I've been on it several times. Usually they get it right! I never (except for this time, because it was so funny) link to anything for advertising, unless it's because I like and use the product or website myself.
ReplyDeleteOne year I was good and did exercies before gardening season. I didn't have all those nasty aches and pains (literally pain in the butt). I really ought to do them again, but do i? No. I don't. I think about it and then figure I'll get in shape when the time comes. I'll regret it later.
ReplyDeleteDaphne, I think there will be many, many of us with regrets. And butt pains.
ReplyDeleteHaha, that was pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteThat was a hoot to read the recap of your blog. Ummm... obviously someone was assigned to look at it and went on one day and read only one post and extrapolated from there. I had a similar but different experience with an online magazine that asked me to do reviews of another blog for a feature article and that my blog was intended to be featured next. I did a thorough visit of the other blog, read many current and older blog posts, read the bios and side info sheets, emailed and did a interview by questions of the site owner, and then wrote a lengthy and complete article - complete with links etc. Fast forward two months later when my blog was to be featured....no contact at all, and when the article came out boy was I surprised! It was a cut and past of my sites intro paragraph - not even the whole thing so it really made no sense - and amazingly for an article featuring a blog site - no link to the site. None. Unfortunately my experience was not even funny like yours - just dissappointing. Oh well, I got to learn about another fun garden blog in the process that I had not heard of prior to that.
ReplyDeleteOverdid it myself last weekend and am just now starting to move freely again.
And don't forget the 'poop injuries' *blush* yes, it would do us well to thinkof gardening as an exercise. Hey that's it! Olypic gardening! :-D
ReplyDeleteAlways knew you'd be famous Granny!
LMBO! That is priceless! I wonder if my forays into Tijuana, Mexicali & Canada count as "foreign lands" LOL!
ReplyDeleteKitsap, I'd have been livid, but what can you do? Like you said, at least mine was funny.
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Barbie, I expect to have "poop injuries" by this time next week ;-)
Erin, I did go to Canada a couple of times, so I guess I'm really a world wide traveler! Hmmm, I've been salmon fishing out in the Pacific Ocean, too. I don't think I got into foreign waters though ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I get this sorts of awards/selections semi regularly. I haven't gone to look at the description before but now that you have posted yours, I have got to find out what I have been doing!
ReplyDeleteLOL, oh my gosh that was SOOOO funny. :)
ReplyDeleteOttawa Gardener, the last time they put my link on their page, at least the write up was correct!
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Crystabel, you didn't know you were hobnobbing with a renowned world traveler, didja? LOL!
I got an e-mail from them too. I get the sense it has more to do with advertising for online degree's.
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning the peppers, seems I have forgot about them too :-)
Dan, how could we forget peppers? They're almost as important as tomatoes! I did get mine planted yesterday.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny because the way you write about it makes it funny. I'm sitting here grinning right now.
ReplyDeleteYet, it's not at all amusing that people will do anything to benefit themselves or their companies. Another blogger mentioned getting hacked last week. She had 5 days with no access to her blog and in that time, her blog was filled with ads that she did not put there. It's not the right thing to do.
Dianefaith, I get quite a few requests from people who want to advertise or have links placed in my blog, but 99.9% of them go directly into the delete file. I did try the Google AdSense once, but they don't send a check until you reach $100, and I was somewhere up around $80 when they informed me I had somehow broken their rules, so I never received a penny for having them on my sidebar for nearly a year. I don't know what I supposedly did, I just put their ad in the blog like they said. I did put a link to a seed company once, because they sent me a bunch of free seeds. I'm OK with that, as long as the company is reputable and garden or kitchen related.
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