WENDY'S KITCHEN

Hello to anyone that reads this post.

It has been over a month since I took the time out to write anything on here. I have been so busy with a new project. I have taken on the lease of the kitchen at the local pub - Tiaro Royal Hotel

It all happened so quickly that the past four weeks have sort of flown by in a blur. But it is all settled down now and I have a rythm settling in. The kitchen is open 7 days a week for lunch between 12 and 2 and then again for dinner between 6 and 8pm. I am not gone from the house all day and I do get time to myself. It is not very busy as yet. I certainly hope to make it that way.

The reason for this activity is pure and simply to make money to pay of debts. Debt Free Is my absolute motto - chant - mantra. I cannot think of anything else lately. It feels so urgent to do this and whenever I get a thought that side steps from this I just automatically pull myself back to the goal. There just does not seem to be anything else that I feel is more important - nothing I can buy - nothing I can do - that is more important.

DEBT FREE = FREEDOM

So here I am working in two businesses. But as the saying goes - if you want something done give the job to a busy person - no procrastinating over a decision or when to do something. It is just do it now - make the decision now and move forward.

All year I have been plodding away at making gifts for Christmas presents. Plodding away with no time schedual  - just cruising. NOW I have lots of work to do - not as much time free and I have managed to not have all my gifts finished and wrapped. So another year comes to an end with me flat out sorting out and finishing of those last few gifts and things to do. Makes me laugh.

Anyway I won't write to much else today. I just wanted to fill those who follow my blog in on where I am at and why I have not been around to write or even read the posts of others. It will not be so long though before I write again and catch up on some reading and what everyone else has been up to.

Cheers,
Wendy

COMMENTING on blogs you read....

One of my Bromeliad's in flower. It is absolutely exquisite - the flower on this plant. I am trying to find out what it is called - any help would be appreciated. I think I will send a photo to the local Bromeliad Society.

It is so spiky this plant - It is hard to even take a close up photo of it. It has pups on the side and I would like to break them of and plant them but I can't get near them to break them of. I will just let it spread and grow to it's hearts content exactly where I have planted Mama plant.

COMMENTS - do you take the time to leave a little comment when you read someones blog post? It is funny but we take the time to read what someone wrote but not to leave a little word to just indicate that you have visited and read what the author took the time to write. I have done that in the past. Read something and then closed out of it and not left a word to say that I read and enjoyed what I read as well. Then I decided that if I spent the time reading something I would take the time to leave a comment.

I have read recently somewhere the request for people not to have the security word to type in when leaving a comment. That it takes too much time. It does not bother me if I have to do the security word. It does not take long. The problem I have sometimes is that I scroll up or down the page and forget to actually do that part and click off the blog page and then realise that I have not done the word thingy. Oh well.

I just think that if you are the type of person to write blogs, read blogs and follow blogs then you should take a little time and leave a comment. I thought a little LIKE button such as is on facebook would be good but then I thought about that and said to myself that it is the little words of encouragement that count. The little acknowledgements that your words have been read and even if not agreed with they are still acknowledged.

I just find that if I am taking the time to actually read through someones post ( and in most cases it is a blog that I actually have taken the time to follow) this means firstly that this blog and this post have got my attention long enough to read the whole post and secondly that I either agree or disagree, have enjoyed their words about their life, enjoyed their photos etc etc and thirdly that I actually want the author to know that I visited.

I also think that it goes the other way as well. If people leave you a comment on something you have written or photos you have posted surely it isn't too much trouble to leave a small acknowledgement and thankyou for their visit. Sometimes we forget that the comments are a way of having a discussion on the subject written about. You might seriously have way to many comments to answer each one individually but it would be good manners to at least leave a short reply acknowledgeing the fact that so many people have replied. I feel so much closer to the people who write back to me when I leave a comment.

There is one blog that I follow daily/weekly that never leaves a comment in reply to anything I write. The funny thing is that I still look at this blog because I really like the message and photo. It does not take me long to read but sometimes can be quite inspiring. But I am just about to delete the blog from my follow list. I just do not understand why some people post things and then never acknowledge others looking and taking the time to read their words and look at their pictures. If it is private then maybe they should have their blog set on private for themselves and a close few that they wish to share with.

Is life that busy and if you have that many blogs to read that the few seconds - and it is literally less than a minute to leave a quick reply/comment after reading a post - if life is that busy, maybe you need to slow down.

What do you all think?????

My CAMILLIA's are starting to open the hundreds of buds all over them.

The gardenias have also nearly finished so now the camillias will fill my vases for the next few weeks.

Window sill of flowers.

Two of my children with their children. The circle of life.

Just because I think this is a gorgeous photo. I just want to grab a good book and a blanket and lay under this tree for the afternoon. So inviting.