“Cindy Blogs the Sierra/Baby Boomer Ranger” made it – five years old and 100 posts, but I’m not sure if I’m much longer fit for the bloggersphere.
For Valentine’s Day, my husband and I watched Julie and Julia. We really enjoyed it, but being a blogger myself, I had something nagging me…my blog.
In Julie and Julia a writer turned public servant, decided to jumpstart her writing career by following Julia Child’s recipies and writing about it daily in her blog. Not to ruin the story, but she has problems, and meltdowns, and success. People discover her blog, she becomes famous, she gets speaking and book offers, her life changes and all is good in the world.
Real blogging is not like the movies. Life is not like the movies.
You may notice that I’m missing a few photos. My blog was vandalized and completely erased from top to bottom. What is now Baby Boomer Ranger was reconstructed from back-up but my format template was lost as well as many of my photos. In order to get it back the way it has been, it would take me hours of uploading, formatting and fixing. I don’t think Julia’s blog was wiped off the web.
I also get spam weekly, sometimes daily. No one seems to make comments unless they are selling low cost drugs or sending strange bad grammar messages that don’t make sense. No comments, no conversation, no challenging thought provoking witty comebacks. Just spam. Lots of spam.
I’m a little discouraged. Three months have sped by.
But…
Tomorrow is another day.
I just got 14 spam in 13 days…
Comment by Cynthia Ann Whelan — March 26, 2010 @ 9:24 am
Take heart old friend, I have had setbacks in my new endeavors too (bread making: it is a hard market, even when the product is fresh).
Today I had the pleasure of retuning a “found object” to my son. He uses them or his art. The object was a rusted sardine can we found at our campsite south of Mather Pass last summer. I suppose it is only several years old, but it looks like it came from the early 1900’s.
At least the high mountains are still pretty clean.
We hiked up the San Joaquin from Muir Trail Ranch to Piute Creek and found the national park sign down and broken. The bridge was good though. From there to Evolution Valley is a climb. But only part of the way to Muir Pass. Three passes in 9 days, pretty good.
Last week I had the opportunity to go help a landowner on the Klamath locate their property, northeast of Mount Shasta. It was a very positive experience because the owners were interested and truly wanted to know what was up. We found a FS monument set in 2007 (after I left the Klamath) supported by an original bearing tree. The monument was set by a retired FS surveyor who was one of my first party chiefs on the Plumas. We walked around their property, and found all of the “cutting corners” set by International Paper in the 1960’s. I explained to them that these corenrs could be anywhere from right on to 25 or so feet off, and they got that. As we walked westerly out of the trees we came to a small bench, which looked out over a sink, and there was the mountain, bright with snow and with a few clouds floating around. The woman exclaimed,”Wow, I didn’t know we owned this!” All I could think is that no one owns this, or we all own this.
Gotta keep it going: your photos are great, i’m sorry thy were stolen.
Comment by Howard — June 15, 2010 @ 6:37 pm