Anyone who blogs knows how hard it is to keep writing good content consistently. But take heart—there are reasons to keep on blogging. Well, at least five for me, anyway:
1.) So that my son, who is in college, has something to read during biology class.
My son was “fortunate” enough to enroll in a biology class without a teacher. Well, there is a professor teaching biology in another building, but, for my son’s class, that professor is piped in on t.v. So the class is unsupervised. And has wireless internet access. Which is a good thing because my son has a laptop. For WRITING PAPERS. And, apparently, for logging onto my blog to show the girl who sits next to him pictures of our dogs.
And sometimes, when they are not looking at pictures of our dogs, they read my blog. And find it funny. And completely devoid of anything related to biology.
Which is why I feel the need to share with you another reason for me to keep blogging:
2.) Our apple trees are loaded with apples.
So far we’ve picked over three big bowls and one sack (not pictured) full of apples:
And we still have lots more on the tree.
And even more on anther tree:
And even more on anther tree:
It’s all reminiscent of the plum problem we had last month. And the apricot problem we had the month before. (Yes, we have nine fruit trees. We are crazy like that.)
But what does that have to do with blogging, you ask? Well, if I were not writing this blog post right now, I would be canning applesauce. Or picking more apples. Or eating apples. (Although I can blog and eat apples at the same time.)
And what does that have to do with biology?
Another good question from the college-age kid in the back with the laptop.
Unfortunately (or fortunately), blogging reason #2 (the one about the apples) has nothing to do with biology. Unless you consider that apples are plants and made up of cells, and something about cells has something to do with mitosis or chromosomes or nuclei, which my son would be able to clarify for us if only he were paying attention in biology.
And another reason for me to keep blogging:
3.) It is the last day of September. If I were to wait until tomorrow (October) to write this post, it would look like I had neglected the blog for four months. Since it is still September, I’ve only missed three months of blogging. (Perception versus reality.)
And another reason:
4.) I just paid $5.80 to renew my blog’s “Who-is Guard” for another two years. So now I have to post at least one more time to get my money’s worth. (That’s if each blog post is worth about $2.40. Okay. Maybe I need to post at least 10 more times.)
(And, in case you don’t know what a “Who-is Guard” is, I’m not going to tell you. Because it is too boring to write about. Let’s just say it keeps spammers from getting my email address.)
And the final reason:
5.) I don’t have a reason #5. But to make up for that, I’ll post some more pictures of our dogs.
Those pictures are for you, son.
Now start paying attention in class.
First I just like to point out that because this is your first blog post in like almost 4 months that you did not write anything in my Birthday month and so now i am no longer the 12 year old and second those apples are coming out of our ears and we are going to be stuck making tons of stuff with it!!
Happy belated birthday, Miss 13 year old.
Good idea. When words fail, post pictures of dogs. I’ll have to remember that.