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August 2008

Last Chance

by Kay~Kacey on 8/31/2008

Last chance to be the BIG WINNER in the Photo of the Month Contest. Send a link to your photo along with a great caption.

I’m warning you… SuperGuy is entering the competition this month…

Click on the Contact button at the top of the page and send me a link to your photo and the caption you want to use. Or leave a comment here and a link. By the end of day. August 31!

Of course I have to add a photo to this post…just because…

tulip bud

Hope you all are having a fabulous weekend!

This and That Stuff

by Kay~Kacey on 8/30/2008

My freshman college boy is coming home for the Labor Day weekend. Don’t warn him. I’m going to be grilling him asking lots of questions about dorm life, classes, roommates and any and everything else I can think of. I might even do his laundry 😉 I miss his face.

off to college

Other stuff:

Some of you asked about earning money from your blogs. Did I mention I wrote an article about adding BlogHer ads to your blog? The article on advertising on your blog is over at Dandelionblog. Hop over there and read it if you’re thinking of starting to monetize your blog. I’m also hoping to get a series of articles up over there about Twitter. I so just did not GET twitter when I first started with it. I’m going to try and explain it so more of you will get addicted to twitter. try out Twitter.

In other news, I grounded two of my boys by text message last night. :mad2: And one of their roommates. What do you think the chances are that grounding worked?? :rofl: :rofl: Ah, well, I amused myself sending the text message anyway.

Last up on the this and that stuff. Don’t forget to send in your photos for the August photo of the month contest. More info at the link. Do it now, before you forget. Photo and Caption. This month theme is best caption for a photo. And I’m just saying…you’ll be sorry if you don’t participate this month, ’cause, well…there isn’t a lot of competition right now. :secret: But don’t tell!! It will wreck my odds of winning! 😉

Enjoy your holiday weekend, if indeed you live where it is a holiday weekend. Drive safely. Have fun.

Lavender Lies

by Kay~Kacey on 8/29/2008

Okay, confession is good for the soul, right? I told a lie. Yes, I’m confessing right here. Right now.

So, you know when I posted about the lavender out my front door? Well…sigh. Big boo-boo. SuperGuy so kindly pointed out to me… :secret: I’d posted a picture of the Speedwell flower that he’d planted among the lavender. Who knew? At least he didn’t out me to my blog. Well, I guess I’m outing myself, huh?

THIS is my real lavender:
real lavender

The silly thing? Remember this spring when I had an unidentified purple flower? You guys helped me decide it was Speedwell… Well, I mentioned to SuperGuy that I liked it. So he bought a few more plants and plopped them in by the lavender. You’d think after all that discussion on “what is this plant“, that I’d finally recognize Speedwell. Well, not so much.

So, for the record, THIS is Speedwell:

lavender

This is the Speedwell poking it’s head up among the lavender and cruelly trying to trick me:

speedwell and lavender

Yes, I promise to recognize it next time. Probably…