Here’s a couple of new posts on the other sub-blogs.

From the Garden,

Oh It’s Planting Time Again!

We have been, or rather I should say MY HUSBAND, has been working on getting our garden straight for the past few weeks. He cleaned up the beds, cleared some debris against the back fence and he created a couple of new beds since part of the old ones were taken up when he put up his little work tent.

I took  the photo above when he first started tearing up the garden. One of the things he did was pull up a row of canna lillies from the back to make room for a new vegetable bed. He’s moving the lillies to another corner of the yard.
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On Found Not Lost:

Are You Worried About Your Online Reputation?

Whether you agree with it or not or even if it’s legal or not, more and more employers are demanding access to your facebook account. No, they don’t just want to be able to see your profile, they actually want your password!

It isn’t enough that you can already find out almost everything about anyone online nowadays just through a basic search online, for employers to demand passwords to your accounts, I think is going a little too far. Next thing you know, they will want to riffle through your home before they hire you. But, that is just my opinion. I would pass over any job that would require that of me.

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Happy Mother’s Day to all my fellow moms out there!

As a daughter, we all know that it’s mother’s day everyday. Where would we be without our moms? My mom has always been there for me and the greatest lesson she has taught me is how to love unconditionally. She has certainly been a great example of loving without strings for me and my sisters.

As a mom, I am awed by the enormity of motherhood and how my own mom and other moms before me coped. They are a great testimony to the power of love and how it conquers all.

Looking at my almost grown daughters, I am awed and amazed that I didn’t mess them up so badly. I am humbled and privileged that they were entrusted in my hands. How grand it is to be a part of their lives! To watch them grow and blossom and know that I somehow had a little bit to do getting them to this point, it’s an unbelievable feeling… one that I relish everyday.

None of us are perfect moms. We make mistakes and we have many stumbles along the way, but that is life. We grow right along with our children.

So to all of us who are muddling to motherhood, more power!

Motherhood is not always about giving birth to another being. It is all about loving. If you have ever loved a child, nurtured, guided and influenced a child, whether by intention or not, this tribute is for you too. For where will we moms be without the network of sisters, friends, aunts, grandmas who lend their support through their love?

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, EVERYONE!

With the increase in seemingly inane and unrelated comments that I have been getting on my blogs, I started to wonder if some of these people are getting paid. So I thought I’d look into it and what better place to start your research than Google right? I tell my kids to Google stuff all the time when I I don’t have a ready answer. lol!

Anyway, so I googled “get paid to comment on blogs” and guess what? YES! Yes, people now can earn money by leaving comments on blogs. That explains a lot. It also makes me feel better about deleting comments and blocking IPs.

When I get relevant comments, especially from other bloggers, I try to return the visit and comment on their blogs. To me, that has just been good blogging manners. Lately though, with all these spam comments and scraper blogs popping up all over the place, it’s getting harder to tell the legitimate sites from the bad ones. What’s worse is, they can negatively impact innocuous bloggers like me who are not looking to make a quick buck but have been at this blogging thing just for the sake of getting our thoughts out there in the vast, vacuum of the internet.

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I have a hard time understanding what happened, but if the word MARRIAGE is problematic, then I do not have any issues with renaming it. Call it a partnership, call it a twosome, call it a merger….. whatever. Just give ALL families the same rights and privileges as ‘traditional’ families. Why is that so hard to do? It just seems sensible to me.

Why is it so difficult to get understanding and compassion from the same people who purport to be living by the word of God?

I’m not going into the argument of what God wants and what God meant because I don’t know it just like everyone else and anyone who professes to know is lying to you. But don’t take my word on it.

It was a sad and shameful night in NC last night when Ammendment One to the state’s constitution was passed and catapulted NC among other states who have banned same-sex marriages. North Carolina’s state constitution now specifically defines a marriage to be only between one man and one woman.

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