When I started this blog every 10 posts I wrote an ‘introspective’ for lack of another word. It has been awhile so I figured I would try another.
What have I learned/observed?
1) People like to read my lessons on Jewish holidays. While my favorite such post, (there have only been two) was about Chanukkah, it gave me a new found respect for what it is to be Jewish. You readers on the other hand seem to like the one about Passover.
2) I’ve written one post at somebody else’s suggestion. It was not a pleasant experience so while I am open to suggestions, I’m a little gun shy on the whole concept.
3) If you are going to write a fictional piece, it may be best to create another page for that purpose. The post generated a lot of questions. The bulk of the story is true. The only part I made up was the very end. Since writing that post I have learned that most of the locals do believe the Avondale is haunted, but I made the ghost part up. When we drove up to the Avondale there were two grizzly men, but one got in a pickup truck, the other got on a motorcycle and they both drove away. There was no picture of George on the wall.
4) I learned how to post stuff on YouTube and since then I’ve learned how to embed them on my page. Now I have to come up with more video.
5) Foxes are really beautiful animals. Elephants are still my favorite.
6) One of my most popular posts had to do with a conversation between my mother and myself. It seems a lot of people identified with it, I’d like to say the conversation was unique, but really it was just normal for my family.
7) I may suffer from a little road rage.
8) With some of our pets getting older I am dreading the next few years and the decisions that are going to have to be made. After the passing of Maya I am finding that ‘dreading’ is to light a word.
9) Never take air-conditioning for granted, we would have never survived this last week without it. At the moment I love my air-conditioning almost as much as I love my Garmin.
10) I still stand by my previous lessons learned.
11) I feel a little bad about punching Ant because he was just doing what wasps do. Now I check the van before I start it up.
13) The most common phrase that people type into a search engine and find my blog is ‘mouse poop’ I find it a little worriesome that people are typing ‘mouse poop’ into a search engine.
14) I don’t care what people say, possums or o’possums are really cute.
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