Dear Reader,
Tom von Kapherr, whose “Cats at the Bar” blog is a longtime favorite of mine, suggested he and I collaborate on a list of blogs we feel have exceptional interest and merit, maybe even create a regular “award” celebrating these blogs. At least, we’ll post one collaborative blog on New Years and see where it takes us — and you!
I had my doubts. Not that I couldn’t pull up a list of worthy blogs, but that I’d run into the dreaded realization that I really, really like a lot of blogs. My list easily can extend over several pages or be broken into several posts. Tom’s list, of course, still is to be revealed, and may be long, too! Though I’ve no doubt there will be overlaps, we may get a surprise and have that dreaded multi-part post I note above!
(Should I hide like Dougy? )
To date, I’ve buckled down and made my tentative list, made [Print Screen] images from the selected blogs that give some sense of what I like about them, and now I’ll spend a little time creating the text to e-mail off to Tom so he can see my selections and add his.
Will our first collaboration be a hit or a miss? Stay tuned!
Regards,
Doug Thomas, AKA weggieboy
God I don’t envy you 🙂 I couldn’t narrow it down! I have so many that I love like yours that I visit that I couldn’t ever narrow it down 🙂
I hope everyone understands the list isn’t every blog we follow that we think is significant, just a sampling. Ever since I completed my list, I’ve viewed other blogs, thought, “Oh shit! [yes, the “s” word!] This is ever as good as any I chose, and now I feel bad I didn’t include it, too…!” Fair? Absolutely not. My list could have been all kitty blogs, each worthy of a follow (including you!), but I only included one with a Persian cat that reminds me of Andy and Dougy except she’s a girl cat.
That’s what I mean. You start realizing how many great blogs you know and the merits of each, then OMG next thing you know you have a stress ulcer 🙂 Have a great night tonight, however you choose to celebrate!
I’ll probably fall asleep before 12! Ha! I’m reasonably predictable that way. Though I have some alcoholic drinks on hand (mostly single malt scotches), I probably won’t feel like any tonight. I do have some mulled wine on hand, which is a nice warm drink on a very cold day like today!
Yummmm I haven’t had mulled wine since I lived in the mountains…..
I haven’t had it since I was stationed in Germany in the early 1970s! I found a German brand of it that supposedly is good. I haven’ tried it since I’m suspicious of pre-made commercial version wine drinks of this sort. Ha! (I have a bias…!)
Opps it is Dougy
Looking forward to seeing your lists as there are a lot of fun and good blogs on WP. Peek a boo Dougy or Andy.
Yes, it’s Dougy! You got it right. Anyway, this list is “iffy” in that I can’t post everything I like or it’d be a mile long~! Of course, I can still recommend them in my comments when someone I like comments or in my text if there’s an opportunity to add it.
Talk about building the suspense! I’ve barely had my first coffee yet. I agree, the hardest part about this post is going to be how to narrow it down. It would be so much easier to do a top 100. But as we both have cats to feed and a limited amount of time…
Even with your suggested number, it’ll be a longish blog. On the other hand, it should be interesting to compare lists before we go live with it, and further refine the post. Actually, I’m surprised how fast I was able to write my comments at least, though the illustrations will be another matter. (I think the uniform size will help, though it may be something that’s tricky to do on some blogs.)
Hey, half the fun is just doing it! The challenge of making this work will be interesting. 🙂
The challenge will be to not hurt anyone’s feelings. I would like to include a lot of excellent blogs there just won’t be time or space to feature this time.
Agreed. But we had to pick a number and as you say, we just don’t have the time to do everyone.
I have my 12 and nearly have enough suitably-sized photos to head each comment….
Oh my God! Better get started!!! I only have my 11. Nothing added. 🙂
Dang right! [snap of whip] I’m even working up some back ups in case of duplicates and/or deviation from plan.
Luckily no duplicates from what I saw. Ok, I’m on it!
Good! I’ve pretty much run out of steam for the day, and I should do something besides babysit this keyboard!