Back home again, and some new favorites!

July, 2021

Ah, yes, I’m home from the camping trip to Fort Stevens State Park in Oregon. Well, I’m home for now, until my next camping adventure in a week or two. The trailer is safely tucked away at the storage lot. I’ve picked up my mail and paid the bills. The laundry is doing its thing in the room off the kitchen. I’ll head out to the grocery store soon, but first let’s visit some updates to this blog website.

I’ve added four new “favorites” to the “Other blogs and vlogs that I follow” list. That list is on the right side of every one of these blog webpages. My four new favorite vlogs/blogs are:

#1 is Becca Woods’ photography and videography, or “BWoodPhotography”, mostly of birds and mammals and woodlands and rivers. Here’s one of my favorite vlogs of hers (below). Check out the heron wing and leg extension at the :52 second mark in the video (oh it feels so good to stretch!). If you like that, then go back to the list of her vlogs HERE and start at the beginning. She’s really good!

Next is “RazorKittn”. She’s a semi truck driver in Sweden … and that means driving a BIG truck in winter in Sweden! Her name is Cassie. She posts videos about online gaming/art too, so you can choose what you want to watch. But you can bet your boots that she’s a professional truck driver. Here’s her first trucking video (below). If I ever get to Sweden, I’ll be looking her up. Her stories and her animations and her videos are simply excellent!

Next up “Sarah in Scotland”. She’s a yank, from the USA, and she moved to Scotland and fell in love with it. For a while she was a professional photographer, but now she loves taking photos and videos of life in Scotland as a hobby. She records images mostly of wildlife and woodland and sunsets. Here’s one of my favorite vlogs of hers (below). If you want to start at the beginning of her vlogs, then go HERE and scroll down to the beginning of her vlogs. Or just enlarge the video below to fill your screen, then sit back, enjoy, and relax in Scotland. Her photography and videography work (and her drawing and color art work) is extraordinary. And yes it’s midges, not midgies, but who can blame her when she’s being eaten alive by them. Still, Scotland is so beautiful.

Last but not least, and admittedly my most favorite of my four new favorites is a vlog called “The Narrowboat Pirate”! Yikes. Scary yes?

But no, it’s not at all scary. 🙂 It’s a vlog by/about an English woman who lives on her narrowboat (the boat’s name is “The Rum Wench”) and she travels the canals of England and Wales as she designs and creates and sells all sorts of pirate-themed wares … buttons and signs and flags and hats and all manner of other things Pirate-like! Aaargh, me hearties! And she loves rum … what pirate doesn’t love rum?

If you want to start at the beginning of “The Narrowboat Pirate”, go HERE and scroll down to the first vlog. I highly recommend you start at the beginning and just wend your way through her vlogs, no hurry. She’s fun and caring. She knows her boat and takes care of her. She loves people and animals and the environment. Her vlogs are gorgeous and informative. And she’s fun and often irreverent! And, she writes her own music.

Here’s just one of her more current vlog posts …

The list of blogs/vlogs on the right hand side of my webpages contains all of my favorites … all the way from Becca Woods’ blog, “BWoodPhotography” (mentioned above) … and on down to the “Well Deck Diaries” by Mark/Deb on their narrowboat (I love their boating vlog too!). Please do NOT miss “Change is Hard” … Dawn has an eye and a heart for things that I think I have an eye for, but she really does have it, she’s a gem.

If you do watch any of these blogs/vlogs, and you enjoy them, please let the author know by commenting on their blog/vlog. It is “social” media after all. Please thank them. You will likely see my comments on those blogs. I’m still working my way through each of my new favorite vlogs; I haven’t caught up with their current ones yet, but I comment … not after each and every vlog post, that’s not necessary at all, but every so often I say something.

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And, with all of that very bloggy business stuff above out of the way, here’s a question that was posed on one of the blogs/vlogs listed to the right … “Why is it that when goods are sent on a ship, they are called ‘car’go … but when they’re sent by road (by truck or by car), they are called a ‘ship’ment?”

Hmmm, what a great question! We bloggers/vloggers are such deep thinkers! 🙂