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My friend Jordan

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I seem to have made a new friend last week.

Jordan and his boat I was checking my email and I read a note from Jordan that said he’d found my blog interesting and inspiring. Wow. That was interesting to hear so I kept reading. Then he said “living on the end of the world ” he’d noticed my existence and would be pleased if I’d notice his.

He had included a beautiful photograph of, I assume, himself sitting near a kayak I believe, on an outcrop above what appears to be the ocean. Jordan had included two links to his sites, MJL Photography and a site that I’ll simply call happiness, both being photography related so I naturally assumed that he’d discovered my photoblog. He was hoping that we might exchange links.

I wrote back thanking him for his note, and complimented him on his gorgeous photos that I’d discovered on his two sites. You really must visit his websites, his photography skills are amazing and the photos within are jaw droppingly lovely.

This man needs to be promoted and should be earning some money with his photography. That’s truly how talented I think he is.

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Much to my surprise I soon discovered that it was this blog that he’d enjoyed and found inspiring. We’ve been corresponding ever since and I believe he’s sent me at least two photo’s each day.

I’ve enjoyed each and everyone of his photos. I love landscape photography, and almost anything natural and the majority of the photos that he’s sent have fallen into those categories.

I believe that many of his photos are from his home Country of Poland. I never would have imagined that Poland was so lovely but it most obviously is quite a pretty place.

Jordan has been very kind and has given me permission to share some of his photography with you. All of the photos that I’ve included in this post were taken by Jordan and of course are his property. Please do not copy them for your own use without asking his permission first – please visit his website if you wish to speak with him. Actually I think anyone who enjoys photography or looking at beautiful photos should visit his site. Please do tell him that Tricia sent you if you visit.

From time to time I may include one of Jordan’s photos in my posts. They are just so beautiful. I want to show them off for him.

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I hope that you’ve enjoyed Jordan’s Photos.





Our other sites are keeping us busy!

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I’ve been handing out linky love to everyone else but I’ve been neglecting to mention what my husband and I have been doing on our other sites lately.

Chris has been busy working on his Guitar and music related site. It’s called Guitar Licks. He’s been spending time writing about his guitar collection lately. You would not believe how many guitars we have in this house! I’ve got to take photos of them so he can add them to his posts. One of his latest posts is about his old HiWatt. Man that thing had good sound!

Every day my husband comes home and checks to see if anyone left him a comment. Would you please do me a favor and find a post on his site that you like and say HI? We know the sites been getting visitors- many coming in from Google related searches, but no one but me has left him a comment. Can you give him a little bit of comment love?

As you may know today is Ground Hog day here in North America. I’m really not sure where else in the world that this event / day is celebrated, but I’m sure it’s not just in North America. Anyway, if you visit my gardening site As the Garden goes, I’m asking people to report as to whether their local ground hog saw it’s shadow or not. If it didn’t see it’s shadow that means you’ll have an early spring. Visit As the Garden grows and tell me how your ground hog did.

Over on Watching House I’ve written up a fantastic recap of the latest new episode “One Day, One Room”. I think it came out to over 4000 words! I mentioned a number of medical mistakes that they made in the episode in my write up and explained why I thought they were mistakes. If you’re interested take a look. Perhaps you like Dr. Cameron? If you do I just posted a bio for Jennifer Morrison today.

One of the funniest photos I’ve seen in a long time is over on Odd Planet. You’ve got to take a look at Chris’ Wordless Wednesday post.

I’ve always got photos up at Breath of Life. I guess I’m yearning for spring and the nice weather to return lately as I’ve been posting a lot of flower photos. There’s an ice sculpture exhibition here in Toronto this week. Chris and I are going to go to see it either this evening or sometime on Saturday. Hopefully I’ll get some great photos of cool ice sculptures and be able to post those on my photoblog soon. In the mean time if you’d like to see some lovely garden mums have a peek.

I’ve been busy posting news about all the celebrities and socialites over at Celebrity Scoop. One of my recent posts is about Paula Abdul. Can you believe that she was named woman of the year? Wacky woman of the year sure, I can understand that.

I have one other blog that I’m working on but I’m not ready to promote it just yet. I’m hoping that I’ll have it finished by the end of the weekend though. I hope you’ll like the new site when I tell you about it. I think it might actually help a lot of people.

Did I forget any of my sites? Ah, yes I did. I have two other sites. They aren’t blogs thought. If you are into reptiles you might want to visit Reptile Logic or my oldest site Tricia’s Chinese Water dragon, Reptile and Amphibian care page. That last site is 12 years old. Yes I know it needs a major redesign. I’m working on that.

What’s going on in Jimi Morrisons Head?

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I thought that it was about time that I spread a little bit more love throughout the blogesphere, so I’ve decided to tell you about one of my new blogging friends.

I met Jim about two months ago on the Payperp0st Forums. He was new to the forums, I believe, and he had some questions about Payperp0st, and about moving his blogspot blogs over to “Own Domain” locations. I tend to enjoy answering those techy type questions so I helped him out with some answers and before long we were talking on and off through the private message system. Let me tell you right now that Jim is the King of Private Messages!

Jim is catching up to me in the blogging department. He’s got 6 blogs now, and he does a good job at keeping them all current. I thought I’d introduce you to a few of his blogs today, so that you can enjoy his talented writing as well.

One of his blogs is called Jimi Morrison’s Head. No it’s not a fan site about Jim Morrison of the Doors, nor does he have Jim Morrisons head in his freezer. Well, I certainly hope he doesn’t! It’s actually a rather humorous site about the various thoughts that rattle around Jims head from day to day – some of the ideas or things he comes across are obviously good enough to get recycled onto his site.

The blog is similar in some ways to Odd Planet, in that every so often you’ll find a post about dumb people or odd news. One of my favorite posts that I discovered on Jims site is about leprechauns . It’s actually a video, but it’s about town folk who believe they’ve been seeing a leprechaun up in a tree. It’s hilarious. You really must go watch that video!

Another site of Jim’s is called Sir Post A Lot. I love the name of this site because it’s similar to a name I call my husband since he talks so much – Sir talk-a-lot. I think this is an extension of Jimi Morrisons Head as it also contains a lot of humor, and posts about interesting and sometimes unusual items. He’s got a lot of good jokes on that blog, ones I haven’t heard before like the one about the man drinking beer in the bar. Have a look and see if you can find something that gives you a chuckle over there at Sir Post a Lot.

Jim’s last site is fairly new and it’s about how people use the internet. From what I can see Internet. Serious Business takes a humorous point of view as to how people do things on the net. For example, in one recent post he talks about the use of terms like LOL and ROFL and how those terms are starting to be used in face to face conversations. Check the post out and leave him a comment. I’m sure he’d love your thoughts on the use of common internet abbreviations. I think this site will develop into a very helpful blog for both new and advanced internet users.

So why are you guys still here? Go on, visit one of Jim’s great sites and tell him that Tricia sent you.

Links of Love

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Flavor Flav has his Flavor of Love show and I’ve got my links of love posts. I’m back with another issue of sites you don’t want to miss.

I’ll start with The Churning, this site is written by JJ and it’s a mix of eclectic posts from information about his band The Codes, to posts about whether, uh hum … There’s some interesting comments in that post. I’d say that for the most part this site is not for reading at work unless you know how to minimize quickly.

Momofthree has at least two great new blogs on her hands. The first site is called Coffee time (hey that’s the name of a popular coffee shop here in Canada, eh!) and it has a little bit of everything on it. Her other site is called Commonsense Critique and I’ve found that on that site Momofthree talks about a number of different products that really would be useful to have around in our day to day lives. Check out her sites.

The next site I want to tell you about is called Ambitiously Inquisitive. There’s a little bit of everything on this site. If you can’t find something that you like on the first page then you’re hard to please! There’s amusing stories and videos, tips on how to make money blogging, and personal tales. It’s worth a look.

I think that’s it for now! If I missed you and I had said I’d write about you please let me know.

Linky Love – Musings

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Terri is another blogger that I’ve met through my work with pay/perp0st. When she discovered my site it seems that she got a kick out of the two of us both having “Musings” sites. Yes, that’s the name of her blog.

With Terri you get a Two for One deal just like you do with Chris and I, because her husband Kevin has a blog of his own too, it’s called Shameless Stuff and he talks about weirdness in the world on his site. It can be quite amusing. You should also visit his Bed head a day photo gallery on his Shameless Creations website.

In her blog, Terri talks about a little bit of everything. She has a nice tone to her writing and it’s easily enjoyable. I enjoyed her post where she talked about being worried about telling her mother that they were getting a puppy. Shortly after that post you’ll find one with an interesting picture of an object called a fecalizer. All I’ll say is that it’s got something to do with the puppy. You need to see the photo and read her post to get the full story.

Terri and Kevin have two young boys running around at home, and in her about me section Terri sums up her thoughts on her families direction as “We are creating a life where we work less and enjoy life, love, family, and art more.” That sounds fantastic to me Terri. I hope that you and Kevin can pull it off.

They have one more site, honestly do I know anyone that only has one site anymore? Their new site is called Shameless Reality Show which is filled with interesting stories about their family life, videos – I guess you would call them videocasts or video confessionals where family members take turns talking to their readers/ viewers about their life, happenings and goals. It’s a great site.

Oh dear! There’s even one more site! Kevin is also a healer and he’s created a site called Theta Mind . This new site discusses the powers of the mind, how to focus it’s power, and healing. That’s a very simple explanation of his site, but if you are interested in Healing please do stop by his new site and see if you can learn more about the powers of the mind.

So go and stop by Terri and her husband Kevin’s sites and tell them that Tricia says hi!

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