Bits and Pieces and Something Different

My new old job, as a temp (without benefits), has been extended through the end of the year. Yippee! The boss is working for the permanent w/ benefits approval. They like me! They really really like me!! I am just lovin’ it, too. Real work, a sense of accomplishment, learning and growing, being appreciated. It’s just a nice thing to get up to each morning.

My camera is scheduled to show up tomorrow. I bought a Canon EOS 1000D (Rebel). Verra, verra excited I am. It will probably show up while I am at work, and Wonderful Guy says he will have it all figured out by the time I get home. (He works from the house.) Without reading any instructions. That’s how he rolls. Not how I roll. One of the ways we are different. And he knows how saying that will get me. After all my research and thinking and weighing and shopping around…to think he will get to it first and open it…

Grandbebe Two has not made her entrance yet.

Dearest Sister has a trip planned to my fair city in just a few weeks. She will meet her newest grand-niece (who will surely be here by then!), help me with Quilt, the Third, and together we will visit a local quilt show. And visit. And laugh. There will be lots of laughing. There always is.

I clipped the ‘more than 400 miles’ mark on the bike with today’s commute, and yesterday I saw a very large, several pointed buck elk resting in a field on my ride home. It was enough to make me stop, get out my phone (which, btw, is still working!) and snap a photo.

I have also clipped the ‘more than 400 posts’ on the blog this week, and I am wondering if some change up might be due. I am wondering about the layout of the blog, but that is cosmetic, and I just don’t know about that. Fun, but maybe just fluff. Still thinking that one through. And I am thinking about a contest later this month. A new baby/ lot of running of the bloggery mouth/ general end of summer celebration give-away. I haven’t put that all together yet. (Maybe some catnip? I have plenty after all.)

But this is what I have been thinking of for changing for a while, and I think I am going to start doing now. I have seen, in other blogs, authors who respond to their commentors as a commentor. I don’t always remember which blogger I read does that, or to check back myself, nor do I always read all the comments made by others. I am sort of a ‘between me and you’ type. I tried to answer my commentors with an email or with a comment on their blog.

But then…things change. Opinions, tendencies, ways we do things, and the time we have to do those things…and I find that I am not getting my commentors responded to. I have taken to reading the comments besides my own on other blogs, and am finding interesting discoveries there. I want commentors who ask questions feel like they are answered (Lynne-see camera, above!), and I surely don’t need a whole post devoted to such. Plus answering a question pertaining to my post in a comment on about another’s post…is disconnected at best.

So. I am going to start commenting in my own comments…right back atcha! If you remember, check back for answers to your questions, and otherwise snappy repartee.

Try it. It will be swell!