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Incest safaris in Meridian Township?

[ Posted by krista Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:02:49 GMT ]

Wow! the nerve ! Incesting allowed and they did not invite everyone?

I guess people in meridian township are real heavy into incest. Not really.

I joke.

This was what was on the screen for the 10:00 nightly news from FOX 47,

our local fox news channel coming from Lansing Michigan.. I guess someone is red-faced about this one ..

If they noticed. But it is fox, I guess this is the cleanest programming they have for this hour.  

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I would like to say that i might be back

[ Posted by krista Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:22:31 GMT ]

So much time has passed since I have posted. I am embarrassed, but there were so many things that have kept my time busy. Now I have at least one kidless day a week to work on whatever I want and this is a continuation in my DIY projects around the home. Things i will be updating are..

-my veggie garden and other garden maintnance and planting.

-cleaning, sorting a basement which has not been cleaned in years.

-arranging my garage sale.

-finishing off a basement for family and entertainment use.

-my efforts in lawn maintnance.

-design and building wood structures for our yard.

-other clean out projects like closets, garage, vehicles, and so on..

and more!

And then there is the main focus of my life right now.... Starting to build my photography Business.  Kusnier Jones Photography.   kjpics.com

I wanted to expand not only the buisness part but the fact that this city needs to be more documented on photo.

 So with that. i will be starting laundry to get ready to clean the basement. 

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The adventures of Cuddle Puppy

[ Posted by krista Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:45:52 GMT ]

The day before the trip

 

This morning it has been a busy one packing and preparing.

If You do not know the whole story yet, then I will fill you in.

My husband Jason and I are going on our first semi-vacation together. The reason this is big is that we do not get out to travel alone togethr. So when the chance came for him to go to the eclipse con in Santa Clara, California, we sprung for me to go to. Even tho this is work for Jason we will still ahve travel time together and also dinners and evenings (if he does not end up working). We will be leaving with his coworker/long time friend and his wife too. While the guys attend the Eclipse con, us girls will be traveling around the area to different places, sightseeing, and appreciating the area. 

I felt terrible to go away from my boys. This will be the longest and furthest I have been from them ever.  I decided to at least let our oldest, Trace, feel that we are thinking of them and that we love them (Dannon being too young to understand). So I thought it would be fun for both us and Trace to have cuddle puppy go with us on our trip to explore with us and meet new people and then to Blog about it every day so that trace can read the adventures of cuddle puppy every night to know mommy and daddy are thinking of him. 

this is Trace

 

So back to today.

This morning was a little off with trace being sad that we are leaving. But he perked up a little when i told him he could give cuddle puppy a bath to get him ready. Cuddle puppy is now clean but WET!

Dannon with the wet puppy 

 Trace telling me to put him in the dryer

 

And now for the first adventure. 

Wishing you were here... err.. i mean... wishing I was NOT here!!

 HOT HOT HOT!

 

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Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.. A MUST SEE !

[ Posted by krista Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:06:23 GMT ]

Now i have had a real good weekend. In the midst of the holiday stress i have gotten a mild and relaxing taste of gardening (other that the indoor garden that i have going on now)

I Got my Baker Creek seed catalog (found at rareseeds.com)  on friday. So this weekend when i found nothing else to do or when i was waiting for dinner to cook, i curled up with this gem and found myself getting sidetracked, while daydreaming about my garden :)

I like this seed catalog because it seems to have a down home feel for one. This has been lost in the reproductions of catalogs that people have done to make just dollars.

In the pages i found a very detailed list of veggie (and more) seeds.  Many things i never knew exsisted,  many things i will be trying for the first time.

I will be placing my spring order from here. Especially for the unusual thing i found in there.

Plus i have actually taken the time and read all that they have posted in their catalog about Bakersville historic village. It seems to have lots of family fu, lots of festivals and other events and looks like a good time. see more at Streetsofbakersville.com

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IT CAME!

[ Posted by krista Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:09:52 GMT ]

My Package Came !

See what I got!

 

Read more...

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Clarification

[ Posted by krista Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:21:05 GMT ]

I guess i don't clarify my point very well.

 unlike many people who have blogs just to get money, I use mine as a hobby, but being a home maker that brings in 0$ and wants just a little fame (be it for 10 or more readers a day) Yes i have ads. I wanted my own domain and i do have to pay for it somehow since i cannot justify the price of hosting, the cost for the domain and so on, to come from my home or grocery budget. So i am sorry to everyone that i do have ads but Google ads does benefit people like me who just plain cannot afford their own domain. It is not like i get any money in my pocket. I do get some money but at the rate i get it, it will be a year or two until i get paid and by then i can pay off the credit cards that has just my website expences.  Plus if i ever make any money it will just go back into promoting my site or buying into faster hosting so i can get more readers and they can have a nice resource. 

once again i state..

i do not blog for money, it is a cheap hobby compared to other hobbies i had, i use this mainly for the sharing of ideas and promo of the home maker/thinker and i am offended by those who think different. 

so when i take the (unpaid) time and effort to hand read every feedback and get someone who has the wrong idea and is making totally wrong assumptions then i get slightly offended. 

here is what i got in my mail

Author: guairdean@gmail.com

 

Body: "Interesting, you're complaining about someone removing your links because this isn't an ad site, but you have ads at the top for Reverbnation and ads at the side for whatever google is pushing. An ad site has ads, which this one does. A non-ad site doesn't have ads, which is something you can't say about this site. I stumbled across your site tonight and looked around. I'll keep stumbling. I will, however, be sure to check out  "(sorry i am not going to promote them anymore than i have)". If you don't like it, it must be good."
IP: 71.96.92.24
Posted date: Mon Dec 03 17:18:41 -0800 2007

 

I will clarify. i meant this is not a site i use for income. This person seems to have missed the point. I am not a person that tries to sell to make money. i just want my voice to be heard.

I am an ad site byt i am not an advertiser for my own monetary benefit.

and for another clarification i did not leave garden stew because of the content. I left because i thought it was rude that  they took the time to see my posts, remove my links, explain the rules in hand written e mail, all while earning actual incom, but they did not take the time to look at my site real quick to find i would have been no threat for spam, would have been a great contributor, and would have been a good promotional person for them if they had heavy traffic and content. 

But i guess i can google for another forum (which i had done for that site) until i find one i do like and will not be rude to bloggers.

As for what they did in general, they forgot the basics of being polite when trying to protect themselves from spammers. I am sorry i have cost them their advertising dollars in dealing with my outrageous spam (mind you it was a madatory greeting i had to make, and a question that would have started a good discussion thread with randomblogging.com as the last line) .. Just be glad i was not a real spammer and you did not have to deal with something that would have actually been annoying and what you were trying to protect yourself from.

 

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Recently posted annoyance.

[ Posted by krista Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:39:50 GMT ]

UPDATE!
Well  i got a letter stating that the policy for the forum was that i had to have 10 posts before i get the availability to post my link. Now i have a question. If the moderator had taken the time to remove my links on my topics, and then had the time to write the mail shouldn't he had taken the time to look at the link i put on there to verify that i was legit and not a sales site?
i give kudos for the response but i am still not getting how these moderators try to make it friendly but end up just being a little too consumed in the rules. I know the rules are there for a reason but they just shooed away a reader and participator. Sorry... and remember i have too much to do to stop and have to read every rule.

 

See the start to this topic here 

 

and yet I just withdrew myself from another site for the same thing too..   helpfulgardener.com .. looks like get crafty is better in this field than these gardening forums  

Come on people! you make enough from advertising to do this stuff.  

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Random blogging, for real!

[ Posted by krista Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:09:49 GMT ]

So is inspiration of my name as the randomblogging.com writer i have now decided to add total randomness! I really have never thought of it, i was stuck in one groove at a time, first moneysaving, recycling, then crafting and sewing, then gardening, but what about interestingly random, interesting people?!
I think this will be fun. It will introduce some new things to look at. It will not be a complete random since it has to have something interesting to my readers in it. Not some teen girl's blog chatting on how much her daily life consists of texting her friends and not being able to do it while chewing (actual contents in one of the blogs i found) But interesting to me in the sense of something worthwhile. SO here it goes.

While doing this i stumbled upon THIS
to help me.. it is a random word generator.
It will be my guide.

One of my first words is Ricer (kinda odd)
but with the help of google search and blindfolded clicking i came upon
a blog on blogspot called Cook almost anything
i did not know that ricer is something other than an interesting car description.
It is a hand tool or table tool used for pressing puree.
on this site i found a recipe using the ricer with potatoes. I shall give it a try tonight but not using a ricer but using the potatoes with what i have on hand (standard multi sized grater.)

..

But warning. DO NOT GO TO THIS SITE HUNGRY! not only do the pictures make your mouth water but the recipes are wonderful too! i found a roasted garlic and white bean soup that will soon cure my winter comfort needs.

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The good the bad and the just plain rude on the net!

[ Posted by krista Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:06:01 GMT ]

So I was inspired to get the list out of the places i frequent on the internet because I have been meaning to and because i encountered something interesting.
First i love the site called craftster
has everything you might want in the means of crafting, sewing, creative idea and more. They are really offbeat and different. There is a lot of activity in the means of lots of people posting and plus cool advertisers for the most part.

the second is get crafty
it is a forum that does have few people posting but has some good research in the archives.


There is also the DIY net forums that are awesome too because not only do you have lots of information but you have show resources that coincide with the info.

But as everyone knows i am a blogger and i do small advertising for my blog. I join the message boards and try to get info from people. try to start conversations, build an online network and so on. (i never go to a forum and post un-useful things, i keep up conversation, bring traffic to the forum with new people and so on) So as i was trying to join forums for my gardening I have been posting some questions i had about indoor ivy, and if anyone knew of the fastest harvesting veggies and other things i needed information on i had encountered a website called gardenstew
It looked nice. looked like it had a little traffic but i was disappointed to find out that one of the rules was that you cannot post a link to your site! In this day and age there is a frown upon anyone who does not allow home pages to be advertised. This is my blog, this is me, just as unique as my email. I do not understand this. I know there is a border where it is advertising for products, services, stores and such but this is a personal site. Non advertised, non income and so on.
So for the e mail that was sent to me stating"I had to remove two of your forum posts as they contained links to your website. Please review our forum rules here (point 1.1). " I responded that i would like my account canceled and that i will be making mention of this on my site. Which is what i am doing. Heck i do not know what i would do if my other forums never let me link. i think that rule is just plain rude and i will make sure everyone knows of this rule from this website.
So as for Gardenstew You get a Green thumb down and i will make sure i do not advertise you in any way shape or form beyond this warning to those who like to link.

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Easy indoor gardening!

[ Posted by krista Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:37:16 GMT ]

Now do not get discouraged when you see all the expensive things that they want you to buy when you search for indoor gardening or growing your vegetables indoors.

Please do not buy one thing for growing until you read what i write! 

Read more...

Posted in Food, Homemaking, Garden/Lansdscaping, Tutorials, General News, On the Cheap | Tags gardening, indoors, plants, veggies | no comments