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7 Random Things about Me
Jun 29, 2007 | 9:52 AM PST
Tag: blogging

Yesterday I was very surprised and honored to see Marc at GardenDesk mention my blog in his, in which he invited me to participate in a blogging activity listing 7 random things about myself.

I am relatively new to the whole gardening bloggernacle and only started writing about three months ago as part of an exercise in seeing how well the new changes at GardenGuides were and in the process I got hooked. My passion for gardening just synched with my passion for writing, and before I knew it, here I am.

Writing seven random things about myself is kind of difficult for me. My goal in blogging has been to keep things on gardening and not about all the craziness in my personal life.

Seven random things about me:

1. I have been married for almost 5 years to a wonderful woman, who I love. We’ve been separated for more than a year, though I am striving for and hoping that we will be back together.
   
   
2. I am the custodial parent of 3 kids from a previous marriage, ages 7, 10, and 12. I absolutely love and cherish them and enjoy every day I have with them.
   
   
3. I have 6 step kids and one grandson, who I hope to someday have a relationship with again.
   
   
4. I am a partial vegetarian. The only meat I eat is seafood. To not eat seafood would be like not being a member of my extended family. I got to admit that my favorite food is sushi and I even have a membership card at my favorite sushi restaurant.
   
   
5. In my work life, I am a director of quality assurance at a domain registrar, meaning I manage a team of software testers and test leads who help to make sure some parts of the Internet keep working as expected.
   
   
6. I come from a long line of farmers and gardeners, going back many generations. This summer my grandmother, who is now a step-great, great grandmother, is staying with me and my three kids for the summer. She has lived on farms almost her whole life and I am amazed by the wealth of information she knows about horticulture, gardening, and farm animals, which I am hoping to soak up as much as I can while she is staying with me and my kids.
   
   
7. My dream is to someday be able to be off the grid, meaning being able to completely provide for my family’s needs without outside services, be that food, electricity, water, heat, etc. I caught this vision after the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, my web programming business failed, and I was out of work for a year, losing my home, car, etc.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I started looking around at some of the incredible gardening blogs that are online,  leading me to realize that I am but a beginner in comparison to people that have been doing this for years.

The rules of this blogging activity are:

Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to then report this on their own blog with their 7 random facts as well as these rules. They then need to tag 7 others and list their names on their blog. They are also asked to leave a comment for each of the tagged, letting them know they have been tagged and to read the blog.

I fear that I have not had time to even really get too much of a sense of many of the great gardening blogs that are online, so I am doubtful I can select 7 that I am really familiar with.

My favorites, which I keep track of are:

Veggie Gardening Tips by Kenny Point 

The Garden Kitty by Sweetlebee 

I dig my own holes by Rkayne

I also keep track of many other great gardening blogs on GardenGuides

I am going to be on the lookout for other great gardening blogs!