So Many Years of Blogging

Little did I know in October 2006 that I would enjoy blogging so much that I'm still doing it in 2024...eighteen years later. Over the years I've made friends, learned so, so much, challenged myself to try new things and expand my cooking and baking skills, improved my writing and photography, had fun with writing short stories of times in the Land of St. Honore', compiled an Index of over a thousand recipes (probably closer to 1, 500 by now!), and had the satisfaction of really feeding my many enthusiasms.

I hope that you have enjoyed at least one of the hundreds of posts, perhaps have tried a recipe or two...or more, and are willing to wander about in the blog discovering stories and recipes and challenges that you can take up.

Thank you to the Daring Bakers, Cake Slice Bakers, and especially to the Bread Baking Babes for inviting me in and encouraging me to grow as a baker. We've had such fun times together!

Come back again...I still have more things to cook and bake and photograph and share with you through this blog. I value your comments and for taking this journey with me, dear reader.

Another Blog Birthday

2006 seems like a really, really long time ago. That was the October when I began posting on this blog. If you had asked me at the time, I'm sure I wouldn't have expected to still be posting. 

Still, it has become over time what a blog is sort of expected to be, a place not only for writing and posting recipes and joining groups with similar interests, but a place that tracks the seasons, that records life events and, perhaps most unexpectedly from my perspective, a place that allows me to revisit the past and re-experience what I was feeling then as I read the older posts. 

 You, dear reader, have been the reason that it stays interesting and meaningful to me. You comment or at least stop by. Sometimes you don't comment but I hear from you other ways and I know that, for whatever reason, this blog is a place where you see what I am up to. 

 At the moment, we are not doing any projects, nor contemplating any, which is the first time since Sweetie retired. I'm still enjoying my watercolor and acrylic pieces, still having fun with friends and with my P.E.O. work, and still, most of the time, finding pleasure in cooking and baking new-to-me things. 

 Let's enjoy the coming year together! 

 P.S. You get extra points if you know what the photo means.