A Major Award!

I'm making progress!


Now on to the Major Award. It could be a bowling alley! Would you look at that? Would you look at THAT?! *

My friend Caspette from The Narrative Causality blessed me with this award. Here's the catch: I have to name five things I'm addicted to. Only five???


1. Coffee. Strong, freshly ground dark oily beans (organic, fair trade, shade grown) with half & half. Or a good hot latte.
2. Blogging. Duh.
3. Books books books.
4. Taking photos.
5. Cheese. I love me some cheese. Extra sharp cheddar, sheep milk feta, Gorgonzola, Jarlsberg Swiss, muenster, Gouda, every so often some brie. I know, I know, between #1 and #5 you can hear my cholesterol rising.


Now I'm supposed to do some bestowing. I'll get back to this later. I just want to covet my award for awhile. We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precioussss. Thank you Caspette! who is quite new to blogging, so go give her a nice welcome!

*This will make no sense to you if you haven't seen "The Christmas Story" movie. Read More!

And the winners are...

I've been tagged twice in two days for excellent blogging! Wow! What an honor, especially coming from two of my favorite bloggers - Wendy (caribousmom) and Jen (Devourer of Books). Thanks you two!!!

Now it's my responsibility to bestow this award on seven more of my favorite bloggers. Wendy already beat me to a couple of them (including herself!), but there are many wonderful blogs to choose from that I try to keep track of. The envelope please:

• First, for her excellent book reviews: Laura at Musings. We share a lot of book interests, so I know I can rely on her opinions about any given book. She also has a wonderful site about her family's land restoration called Nurturing Nature, and she organizes some of the reading challenges (organizing is her strong suit!) I consider Laura my blogging mentor - she ushered me in and reassured me, cheered me on when I took the first baby blog steps. Thanks Laura!
• For her humor, excellent writing and reviews: Andi at Tripping Toward Lucidity. Andi's all over the blogosphere writing reviews and essays. She has a recent addition of a great environmental/political blog, Unlikely Activist.
• For her wonderful stories and photos of local color (who could forget the orphaned ducks?) and excellent book reviews: Lynne (dovegreyreader scribbles), who is gaining quite a reputation as a blogger and reviewer.
  
• For some of the loveliest flower photos on the web, yummy recipes and food photos, knitting projects and excellent book reviews: Karen (Cornflower).
• For her community building on the web, the originator of the Sunday Salon: Deb at The DebLog.
• For his originality and wonderful drawings: Simon at Stuck in a Book.
• For the most eclectic bunch o' books and great reviews: Irish at Ticket to Anywhere.
  

Go visit these great blogs and tell them Terri sent you.

For the awardees, here are some guidelines:

1. Put the logo on your blog (no, that isn't an Enron logo!).
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate at least seven other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog.

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