For some reason, my blog has attacked the attention of a lot of weathervane lovers and they love to comment (100+ comments so far).
WordPress has a spam service and it has deemed most of their comments as spam. Are they spammers? I just don’t know. It seems a bit odd that so many weathervane enthusiasts have loved and enjoyed my blog… but stranger things have happened.
I just noticed that another mom and blogger,Expatbabyadventures, has also received a lot of love from them.
Now, isn’t that strange.
So…
Let’s Talk Weathervanes… shall we?
Image found on West Coast Weathervanes FB page
I do not know much about weathervanes. I don’t own one and am not likely to own one in the the near future. This is probably because I don’t really need to know which way the wind is blowing, nor do I need to know how fast it is blowing to complete my daily chores. My weathervane of choice… a tree. You see I look out my window and if I see the leaves rustling then I know that the wind is most likely blowing. If the tree is bending to one side or whipping around in circles, then the wind is most likely blowing a lot. I even used our dogwood tree to gauge the strength of the wind during Hurricane Irene. It was blown to its side and so I would say the winds had been quite strong.
Sorry, I am not interested in buying a weathervane, but if I need one… I think I will do a project like this one with the kids…
Thanks go to Sarah’s Sweeties for the idea. I can’t wait to try it someday.
And now for my replies to some of the Weathervane Enthusiast’s comments….
- I am so glad that you like the blog and find my posts entertaining. It makes me smile to read comments like that and I appreciate those comments immensely!
- I use WordPress and would completely recommend it to anyone looking to start blogging. The design is one of the free themes through WordPress called Bueno. I have not changed any of the colors or messed with it much, because honestly that is beyond my computer literacy level. I do hope to personalize the blog more in the future though. I am not a computer programmer, and really I don’t pretend to be (too busy trying to pretend I am not domestically challenged and frankly that takes up most of my time), but since you asked here are some of my answers to some comments.
- I am so sorry if my blog does not work well with Opera or on your iPad. Since I don’t actually know much about computer programming, I would have no idea how to fix it. Sorry!
- I just asked my husband what an SEO is. I guess that answers any questions on whether there are plug-ins that work well on your blog.
- One weathervane lover posted this “Do you have a spam issue on this blog; I also am a blogger, and I was curious about your situation; many of us have created some nice methods and we are looking to swap solutions with other folks, why not shoot me an e-mail if interested.” Hmm. Maybe.
- Sorry, I don’t have a donate button. I am not opposed to having guest bloggers though, maybe in the future.
- To the person who dropped their iPad from 40 stories and made a youtube video about it. Thanks for sharing.
I am sorry if your comment was placed in the spam folder and you are not a spammer… I am still so new at this that I feel I need to trust the spam service at this time. Just know that I do read through those comments and will try to reply in one way or another.
So all I have to say… Weathervanes are not on the love it list. Sorry!
Expat Mammy said:
excellent post there, looks like weathervanes are the way forward in the blogging world???/
Domestic Goddess in Training said:
Apparently so… Who knew!
pplcheryl63 said:
Glad to see that I am not the only ones who get the Weathervanes love. I’m also getting the Cupola love now too and amazingly it seems that the cupolas post the exact smae comments as the weathervanes.
All I can say is Thank Goodness for Akismet!
Domestic Goddess in Training said:
Since this post… I have received lots of fan mail from cupola and chicken coop enthusiasts too. Chicken coop and cupola enthusiasts also use the same comment bank. Akismet is awesome. I would be overrun with spam without it.
Theodore said:
Wow that was odd. I just wrote an really long comment
but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t show up. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again.
Anyways, just wanted to say superb blog!