Some Updates

I updated my 'Blogs I Like to Read' list, which I haven't for a while. You might find something interesting there.

While you're checking those out, be sure to take a gander at Clint's Washing Machine post. I don't often check back on comments after I comment, but this one I am. By the way, Clint is one of my awesome Wood Badge Raven brothers. I would love to see your interpretation of the washing machine there.

I found a FAR FAR easier way to check on the number of subscribers on your blog and other people's blogs than the way I shared in this previous post. Still in Google Reader, at the far right side of the long blue bar at the top of the screen just about the reading window, there is a little link right on the bar that says "show details." Click on it. Just like that, there it is.

I also added a shameless ad for my website to the sidebar. Tell all your friends.

Missing the Blogging Boat

So much to do, so little time.

For about a month I was waiting to share the great question, "Here we say that if March comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb, and if it comes in like a lamb it goes out like a lion. Soooo, in the southern hemisphere do they say the same about September?"

I have all these great pictures of the kids swinging away on February 29, then the swingset covered in snow March 1.

I've been meaning to write a post about Sammy and his amazing Lego creations for a month or so. I keep adding more pictures for that one.

I want to write about how our first week of trying out household jobs went.

I've got a post in my head with pictures to go along about our past homeschooling week (it's been a fun one).

Posts with pictures are fab, but it takes more time to pull them off the camera, crop, etc.

So many things I want to be reading.

And I need to prepare a class on the Family Life merit badge for Thursday night.

Not to mention the 500 other heres and theres.

How Many Subscribers?

I've wondered if there was a way to find out how many subscribers I've got, and thanks to Cindi's post on backlinks I decided it was time to find out. Didn't take too much.

Go to Google Reader, which if you don't already subscribe to your favorite blogs this is a super way to do it, and on the left side of the page in the green bar where you can subscribe, there is also a "Discover" link. Click on that. It will show lots of blogs Google recommends to you based on others you are subscribed to, but for what we're doing you don't need to look at those. Next to the "Recommendations" tab there is a "Browse" link. Click on that. Go to the "Search and Browse" box and type in the name of your blog (i.e. stillswinging for me). It might come up with some others, but your should be there with the number of subscribers next to it. Neat! Or depressing, however you may view it. :)

P.S. To read about more cool "goings on," check out Lazy Organizer's Talk about Tuesday.