Planning the winter blog
Busier than busy with work this week and next, so posting will be lighter than usual. I’m also trying to find my topical direction for this blog during the off season. So let me ask you: is there anything you’d like to read about here? Any question you’ve wanted to ask? Comment you’ve wanted to make?
Here are some areas I’d like to explore here during the cold/inside months:
Paring down the stuff
Embroidery
Cookbooks
Testing recipes more than once
Bread baking
Choosing color for walls
I’m fast running out of warm days to get my end-of-season garden work done and the yard looks a tremendous mess. I keep hoping we’ll have a few weeks of Indian summer this month coming up so I can put the veggie gardens to bed, build those two new beds closer to the road, build a compost pile and mulch the perennials. Oh, and rake/mulch the leaves. But it’ll be what it’s going to be.
"Grass is the cheapest plant to install and the most expensive to maintain."
~Pat Howell
November 1st, 2007 at 8:52 pm
I just like hearing about your life as wife and mother, working and having creative aspirations, following your passions for word and food and garden and nature. I love your photos and also your recipes which we cook faithfully and think of you and yours! Whatever crosses your mind is fine with me. I always enjoy reading just to hear the Kelly wit and wisdom!
November 2nd, 2007 at 6:29 am
I agree with Cathy. You think up pretty interesting stuff to write about without any help, it seems to me. I do have to admit a certain fondness for wall color choosing (um, paint chip is probably my second favorite game), but that’s just me
I just scored a second Benjamin Moore paint chip deck the other day. Now I have their classic and new colors. Let me know if I can help you by sharing the joy at all.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:00 am
Can I third the motion? You blog about so many things that interest me — cooking and craft and approaching life in a thoughtful manner — that I’m perfectly happy to read about whatever you’re in the mood to post.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Paint chips are one of my favorite hobbies. I love that. I also love the idea of “paring down the stuff,” especially with Christmas and all its gluttony of presents coming.
I also love reading you write about food. Since this is the time of year when crops are done and most farmers markets are closed down, I’d love to hear how you navigate the grocery stores and make choices.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I agree with those above, in almost that order
Put paint chips up a bit higher on the list, and it will be perfect!
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Wow, look at you, thinking ahead to the post-garden world. Winter, to me, is the time when my house is the most clean, as suddenly (or so it seems to me) I unleash my pent-up energy on…domesticity outside the kitchen. SO I understand your need to think ahead.
Whatever your topic, though, we’re sure to lap it up.
(I will say I am ever interested in seeing those new veg beds flanking the drive. I’m a sucker for dirt, as you know….)
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Every single one of those things is something that I would LOVE to read your thoughts on. And I would love to see beautiful pictures of bread baking.