... According to my blog
I find it interesting to look over my blog from the previous year to see how often I posted and what I chose to post about. You may not find it as interesting as I do, but here it goes anyway. :)
January-17 posts
January found me unsettled because of coronavirus uncertainties. My family was not yet eligible for vaccination, so we continued with our hypervigilance. To help combat these feelings, I posted every day for two weeks with positive, everyday topics. Also, our friend Kris, a healthcare worker, shared her experience with early vaccination.
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| In January, we visited a lighted, outdoor boat display. |
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| At the end of the month, I tried a new-to-me method of starting seeds in milk jugs outside. |
Just as February posts were dominated by winter, March posts were dominated by spring as things started to bud and bloom. We continued our outdoor outings exploring a city park. However, the most important event of this month was that Ward and I received our first vaccination.
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| Nothing says spring to me like crocus. |
April - 26 posts
I once again participated in the A-Z blogging challenge, where I posted every day except Sundays. I tried something different this year using a theme - Fruits and Vegetables. I explored new-to-me veggies and fruits, shared recipes, showed what was growing in my garden, and examined the nutrition of various fruits and veggies. I still struggled to post every day, but looking back over them, I find them interesting.
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| For "V", I made vegetable soup with what I had on hand. |
May - 9 posts
May was a month of moderate weather and an outside focus. The cooler-weather vegetables were doing well in the garden, and I was trying to figure out where to plant more things that I had been gifted. Flowers were prominently featured in several posts.
We were finally fully vaccinated (so we thought), and we had a few family members over for a cookout to celebrate Ward's birthday. Also, since we were fully vaccinated, we took our first trip in over a year. We drove to WV to visit cousins and, along the way, explored historic sites, including ones that involved my ancestors more than 200 years ago. There was a feeling of hope as we were slowly doing activities we hadn't done for a while.
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| The rhododendrons were blooming early in the month. |
June - 8 posts
I continued posting about the trip to WV that we took in May. There were more signs of "normalcy" as people were allowed back into the library. We began harvesting vegetables from our garden, including broccoli, lettuce, carrots, peas, and beets. The weather was unseasonably warm and brought a storm that took down a much-loved tree in our front yard. I also shared another storm of sorts when I posted about the invasion of cicadas this month.
