Silly Saturday~Dippin' Dots and Awards

A few days ago, we had a dusting of snow, but it was not really snow, it looked sort of like Dippin' Dots. Imagine this with a some colorful food coloring. Can you see it, too? Ok. Tell me I'm not crazy. lol! (And for those who don't know what Dippin' Dots are, they are basically ice cream in tiny individual pellet shapes. They are often sold at carnivals, fairs, sports events, the zoo, shopping malls, etc)

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I'm so far behind in posting, thanking for and gifting out a few awards I've been given over the last 2 weeks.

The first award comes from my glamorous blog friend, Ms. Punchy Queen, Meg of Lucchese to Louis Vuitton.
And I choose the following lovely blogs to give this award to:
*Colleen
*Desert Horses
*Melanie
*Callie
*Farmer Jen
*Lytha
*White Lilly
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The very funny and awesomely wonderful Andrea of Swamp Suburbia, created this next award, and chose me to give it to. And then a little while afterwards, the ever interesting Mikael from Rising Rainbow gave this award to me, too.

Andrea tells me that the word 'Hamfattery' originated in the early 1880s from a song called The Hamfat Man. It was a black minstrel song about an awkward man. After that, people would use the term hamfatter when someone was trying too hard to be funny and not succeeding. That was ultimately shortened to the word ham. Very interesting!!
So, now we know! And now we have the Hamfatter Award! (And I'm just relieved it's not given only to fattery people, who've eaten too many cookies during the holidays. whew!)

This award is given to the blogs that make you laugh. The blogs that stand out and just make you smile and chuckle. The rules are easy and simple.
1. Blog about the Hamfatter award, tell where the name came from (you can copy and paste, that is what I did!!)
2. Post the Hamfatter Award Proudly on your blog!
3. Pick 5 blogs that just make you laugh and link to them in your post.
4. Link back to the person who gave you this hilarious Hamfatter Award.
5. Let your blogger friends know they were awarded a little something.
I now will bestow the Honorable Hamfatter Award on five blogs that just make me laugh. You guys are such Hams!! Thank you Andrea!

And I choose these 5 blog friends that always make me smile:
*Cing Spots
*Gail
*All Horse Stuff
*Yellow Jacket Ridge
*Goat Girl
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Another award passed on to me from my sweet and always interesting Desert Hen is this Friendship Award. And this is what is said about the recipients given this award:
"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."
And I choose:
*Kacy
*Melanie
*Gina
*Good Life in VA
*Fantastyk Voyager
*Nuzzling Muzzles
*Andrea
*Stephanie
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And last but not least, my big-hearted friend over at Wilmoth Farms awarded me the Fabulous Blog Award. And for some reason it comes with the stipulation of listing 5 of your favorite addictions.

So here goes:
1)Blogging, of course!
2)Chocolate, especially brownies
3)Horse Riding and spending time with my horse and other animals
4)Letterboxing
5)Drinking Hot Tea
And I choose the following 5 bloggers to gift this award to:
*Pony Girl
*World of Ezra
*Esther Garvi
*Wrensong Farm
*Claire
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And finally, I wanted to let my blogger friends know that if you think I've either given you the cold shoulder or lost my directions to your blogs, I truly haven't. I'm just a little bit slow in making my rounds to all of my favorite blogs. These Physical Therapy appointments are exhausting for me, and not just the work-out while I'm there, but all the effort into getting there and back home: butt crawling up and down two flights of stairs and hoisting myself into and out of the back seat of our van several times(my knee still won't bend enough for me to sit in the front seat yet) just wears me out. By the time I get home my left knee and entire leg is throbbing, my right leg is aching and shaking from having to do all the work, and my shoulders and arms are burning from lifting my large frame everywhere.

When I finally change clothes and slip back into bed, I pop my Tramadol and Flexiril, and then it's all I can do to just visit a couple blogs, try to leave a few comments, maybe watch a little TV, or thumb through a magazine. Then I'm toast! lol!

So, what I find works better for me is to go on blog binges. Basically, visit one blog and play catch up reading all of the posts I've missed at one time. Instead of a quickie visit from me, it's more of an extended stay. hehe

How do you keep up with your favorite blogs? Do you sometimes read several posts but just leave one comment for all of them? And do you ever skim through and read a post and then come back later to leave a comment. Do you tend to be a lurker and not leave comments at all? (Time for you lurkers to speak up now. lol!)

And finally, do you ever get the shakes when you discover yet another terrific new blog that you just have to add to your favorites?
How do you keep up?
I'm thinking I could really use an extra 8 hours every day, just to blog! lol!
How about you?


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