Winter

A couple weeks ago I decided to try out a Spark on SocialSpark, not knowing what to expect. I suggested that people write about the winter storm that blanketed a lot of the US. They were supposed to link back to my girls in their winter wonderland. I was pleasantly surprised to have gotten 3 people take me up on the offer. I promised to give a blog back as my part of the deal, so here I am reviewing them.

First I will review Go Green Camping because they followed all the rules; include a link back to me and click the "take this opportunity button". The site is clean, the entry in question had some pretty pictures and it is all laid out nicely. Clean and pretty site. It did seem a little heavy on the advertisements and most of the posts were paid. You have to make an income, but it seems a little much to me.

Next we have RN2B who remembered the important part: the link back to me. But instead of clicking the "take this opp" link, she left me a comment. She let me know that she had done it, but I had to hunt down the post to see it. Still, I'm happy to see it. I like her site better than the last. It is also a clean site and despite my knowing she does paid posts (I met her on Social Spark and she has a small add for PayingPost) I don't see much evidence of her doing so. That means that she rights enough posts to hide the paid ones. I think this is the way to do it. I sometimes get a run on paid posts and have a few clustered, but I also try to have a lot of other quality posts, and a few fluff ones.

Finally, we have As It Stands, who forgot to include a link to me, but did take the opp properly. Nice blog entry. The site was clean enough, but the navigation was lacking. Could not find any information about the blogger or any way to contact him directly. The entries are well written and you can tell a lot about him be them.

With all the snow and ice out there, I started thinking about winter sowing. You can't do much gardening with all that cold out there, but if you have done some winter sowing, you are sitting back, happy knowing that you little seeds are working away right now, getting ready to pop out of their shells and join you this spring.

I had every intention of doing some winter sowing. Have some big trays I was going to use and everything. Unfortunately for me, the only thing under all that snow is soil and weeds. I can still get some together, if I choose. Nothing to stop me from putting the seeds out there now. Except that I don't have time, with Christmas and all. Heck, look at the time stamp on this and you will see that I stayed up late to write it. Since tomorrow is Christmas, I'll be up early tomorrow playing with my daughters new toys. I'll even let her play with them!

Yes, I should have started winter sowing in the fall, but I've looked up some information on winter sowing, and some seeds can be winter sown as late as March, so I'm not too worried about it. I'll get some out in January... maybe.

thought I'd share some winter time pictures. And a video.

Emma dancing.

A rose.

Lilac.

The Tired Gardener's Front Yard.