Posted by Suzanne McMinn @ 1:05 am | Permalink
Daily Farmhouse Journal
One of the most frequently asked questions on my site is, “How do you get so much done?”
Answer: I don’t. I regularly spend four hours a day or more preparing each post, between photography and writing, and I spend a good bit of time spread over the week on various other technical and administrative things behind the scenes. I tend to be a perfectionist about…everything. (Perfectionism is such a burden since it can never be achieved!) I wouldn’t put as much work into this website if I didn’t love doing it, and I do. I absolutely love it. Then there’s the farmin’ and the kids and putting dinner on the table and all that makes up life for everyone. Oh, and yeah, there’s that other writing gig that pays the bills, sometimes, sorta, but not much since it’s the most likely part of the day to get the shaft in favor of my passion for this website. And so I’m going to beg your forbearance in the coming week if I post some briefer than usual pieces in order to focus some badly needed attention toward keeping my farm afloat and Clover in cookies.
Meanwhile, there’s always something happening on the forum. (If you haven’t registered yet and started enjoying all the forum has to offer, please do so! You’re invited!)
If you missed anything in the past, catch up on all my country living stories, or my cute farm animal stories, or try a recipe!
I’ll be back to regular full postings as soon as possible because I would rather be writing this blog than anything else in the world. But God helps those who help themselves, so I’d better go help myself before somebody, like the electric company, gets really mad at me. (I’m feeling slightly discouraged at the moment, but I’ll get over it. I’m going to be making cheese sometime soon-I’m sure that will cheer me up!)
And on a related note-now I’m being offered dried fruit and nuts. You know, if I’ll use their products in a recipe and blog about their products and their website as if they were the greatest thing since sunshine. They didn’t get the memo that I don’t write sponsored posts. I find sponsored posts fairly distasteful, though they are becoming more common in the blog world-bloggers pumping a product as if they love it, all the while they’re receiving a kickback under the table. This is why I’m poor. I have standards. When I blog about a website selling products, like here and here, it’s because I actually bought their products and honestly recommend their products and there were no kickbacks involved. Okay, advertisers? What I need? Some new tires. In fact, I’d like a whole new car. (Please make it a 4-wheel-drive.) Then, possibly then, you might break me.
