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My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is … Katie Wright!!!
Katie Wright (#5600) has received a certificate of achievement in Each Other for earning an Intermediate & Expert Level Blogging Merit Badge!
“I started my blog on 11/23/2013, but went slowly at learning things from a book called Blogging For Dummies. I posted on Country Katie and Daisy Mae at that date and have continued to do so with topics about glamping, gardening, knitting, and more. I have added my blog to GirlGab.com some time ago.
I have learned a little at a time, and just recently have started adding color and also pictures. I have learned to change profile photos and some other things. This seems to be something that I will enjoy for a long time, including reading others’ blogs. I look at knitting, quilting, gardening, and travel blogs, also.
I learned how to add my profile picture and then how to change pictures. Now I also am able to add pictures at the beginning or end of the blog. I also have published more than 10 blogs, as I have been doing this since the end of 2013, but this is the first time I have applied for the badge, as it just takes a while to get things going with a blog, at least for me. I have visited others’ blogs and they have done the same with mine. I do not have a big following, but I believe that in time, and if I learn to add some more decor and “class” to my simple blog, it will be looked at more.
I believe my blogging is doing fine. I know I could be on more often and respond to others’ blogs, maybe ask questions at the end of my posts so people may respond, and maybe list more topics. I enjoy telling things about gardening, knitting, glamping, and my sweet Daisy Mae Foxhound. As your blogging section states, it takes time to build a following. Actually, I am not so concerned about a large following, as I am enjoying it for the writing experience.”
You look simply frabjous today, darling!
Photo courtesy of Pixabay.com
Uh-oh.
Now I’ve done it.
I’ve put you in one of those awkward positions,
like when someone has a scrap of spinach in her teeth,
and you can’t quite decide if it’s your place to point it out.
Don’t worry, I know what you want to say, and I can take it.
You think I misspelled “fabulous,”
made a mess of it,
a mockery
(all modesty aside).
Alas, my dear, I haven’t sworn off spellcheck.
In fact, I didn’t actually misspell the word “frabjous.”
Well, not exactly.
According to Dictionary.com (which cites Lewis Carroll’s kooky 1871 classic, Through the Looking-Glass),
frabjous \FRAB-juhs\
is an informal adjective meaning wonderful, elegant, superb.
See?
Frabjous is a perfect fit for you!
Pretty girl posed with camera, circa 1909, Library of Congress.
Here’s a brain teaser for you …
What’s the only word in the English language containing three Ys?
Yeppers, I said three … count ’em, THREE.
Even if you’re an ace Scrabble player, you probably haven’t come across this word … because Scrabble only has 2 Ys to work with. And a good thing that is, because this word also contains a Z.
Well, the word with 3 Ys also describes a rare astronomical event involving three heavenly bodies …
Syzygy [siz-i-jee]: the alignment of three celestial bodies in a straight line, the Sun, the Earth, and either the Moon or a planet.
Three Planets Dance Over La Silla.
Photo by Beletsky via Wikimedia Commons.
Lunar and solar eclipses are both examples of syzygy, when the Earth, Sun, and Moon fall in a straight line. Check out this video from One Minute Astronomer showing a dramatic example of syzygy when the Moon passes between the Earth and Sun in a total solar eclipse.
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5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
