I am currently in the middle of Pip’s Blog with Pip e-course.  I committed to this because it looked like fun, for me it was affordable, I wanted to fine tune my blog a little and hopefully find some creativity in the process.

So far it has met all of my expectations.  It is fun, easy to access, flexible and absolutely loaded with useful blogging information whether you are new to blogging or you have been in the blogging world for years.

One of our assignments has been to complete a Taking Stock list, which Pip sometimes posts on her blog.  Pip also includes a blank list so other bloggers can join in the fun.  So, here goes.

Making : yoghurt and iced coffee
Cooking : lamb and easy, hot weather friendly food
Drinking : a cold beer at the end of the day
Reading: The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
Wanting: a trip to the local tip shop, I just can’t seem to squeeze it in at
the moment
Looking: at my summer vegetables starting to crinkle and fade in the heat
Playing: Blue King Brown, Eric Church, Allday
Deciding: on what to wear to a special family wedding
Wishing: for more patience, especially at the end of a long day
Enjoying: having a few more people at our place for meals and easy
get-togethers
Waiting: for autumn
Liking: experimental tomatoes dried in the wood oven
Wondering: are flat shoes too casual to wear to a formal wedding?
Loving: the loyalty already shown by our new puppy, Pirate
Pondering: the constant juggle of life
Considering: ditching Twitter and switching to Instagram or perhaps not bothering
with any of it
Watching: our house dam dry up, for the first time in many years  
Hoping: for rain over our house dam
Marvelling: how just occasionally I can take a photo and in that split second
capture so much understanding and connection between friends.
Just occasionally this happens.
Needing: to get to bed earlier
Smelling: home grown rock melons
Wearing: long sleeved shirts
Following: too many blogs, but I love them
Noticing: the mornings getting darker
Knowing: I haven’t baked bread in over a week and I am missing it
Thinking: about my autumn vegetable seeds
Admiring: my cousin Jessie, a generous and kind young women who sees good in
everyone and makes fun of every situation
Sorting: Lego, constantly
Buying: sausages, for the first time in ages.
We need to make some more when the weather cools off
Getting: ready for a day in town
Bookmarking: so many useful blogging, writing and photography links that Pip has provided us with.  There is so much information I could read it for weeks.
Disliking: bugs, flies and moths invading the house at night
Opening: online shopping parcels
Giggling: at how much my kids love the Footrot Flats movie and cartoon books
Feeling: confident and strong sometimes, anxious and weary sometimes
Snacking: Cruskits with cheese and tomato chutney
Coveting: new sunglasses, aviators  or something more like this?  All so beautiful and also rather pricey
Helping: my children negotiate distance education
Hearing: my coffee machine clunking and hissing, every single morning at nine
o’clock.  I can tell you, distance education just wouldn’t happen without that machine

If you happen to still be reading, thanks for
hanging in there!

I encourage you to have a go at this list if you feel like it.  I found it fun but also tricky in parts.

Happy Friday friends.