Awards

Here's some awards and stuff:

From everyone's favorite world traveler and poetry wiz, Yvonne Lewis, of Welcome to My World of Poetry comes this Stylish Blogger Award.    Thank you, Yvonne.  You are one of my sweetest and most consistent commenters.


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       This award is from Jeffrey Beesler at World of the Scribe, who had some wise words of advice in the same post that delivered this award to me.   I also want to thank Jeffrey for the fantastic job he has been doing with the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge.  You have made a lot of us smile.
 
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The Words Crafter at Rainy Day Wanderer gave my this Through The Keyhole Award for making a correct guess on a blogfest.   I had missed this one.  She passed to me on December 17th.  Talk about getting behind.

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From Elizabeth Mueller at her Author Blog comes still another Stylish Blogger Award.

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        My good blog buddy and fellow host of the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge Alex J. Cavanaugh very kindly passed this Friends for the Journey award my way.  The award is the creation of
Michelle Gregory at Beautiful Chaos in honor of those who have helped on the blogging journey.


The Rules for Passing It On:

1. Pass it on to 7 other bloggers and tell how they've encouraged you.


2. Please let your recipients know that it started at Beautiful Chaos.


3. Leave a comment on this post when you've posted on your blog.

        My distribution of this award is based on those who gave me comments early in my blogging career. They let me know that somebody out there was reading what I had to say.  Without those early comments I might have gotten frustrated and hung it all up.  There are several who don't have blogs so I will limit the award to those who do have blogs in case they might wish to display it on their site.

Patricia Stoltey was among my earliest commenters who inspired me to keep the posts coming.

Stephen T. McCarthy is the guy who got me started blogging and encouraged me and inspired me from the beginning.   I usually don't particularly like it when people have more than one blog, but Stephen does and I can forgive that since his have good content and good writing.  You can visit him at the blog he'd like you to read, Stuffs, or at the blog he really wants you to read, Ferret-Faced Facist Friends.   He doesn't accept these awards but I still like to give him some well-deserved recognition now and then.

Ada Zdanowicz doesn't have a blog, but she and her sister Emilee were among my earliest commenters and followers.   You can visit her at her website CollagePodge.  I think she'll at least put up the award on her site.and maybe she'll even eventually start a blog.

Judy at Sixty Is Just the Beginning frequently encouraged me with her comments at the start of my blog days.

Diana at Rotten With Images didn't have a blog when she left her comments on some of my early posts, but partly through my encouragement she now has one.  She still doesn't post very often, but perhaps with some more encouragement from other bloggers she might post more in the future.   Hope you'll at least stop by her blog to say hello.

Tom at Ocean's Six Group Blog had left comments and provided support in other ways.  He has a very helpful blog about real estate.  If you are buying, selling, or just keeping up with what's happening in the housing market, you  might enjoy checking out his informative blog.

Gregg at Gospel Driven Disciples has continually offered support, encouragement, and enlightenment to me.

Stephen Tremp was an early follower and consistently leaves me comments to make my efforts feel worthwhile.  You can find Stephen at Breakthrough Blogs.

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             My thanks to the above bloggers for these thoughtful awards.   It's possible that I have missed other awards and if that's the case I will put them in a future post.   Now I hope you'll pay a visit to the above links and give them a nice hello.


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