February 2, 2026 Nobody is Visiting

 Nobody is Visiting

After years of neglect of this little blog, folks quit checking for posts.  I've done the same thing.  Recently I have checked on a few of my old regulars sites.  As I visit the sites I would check almost daily the posts are dates two to four years old.  I wonder what has happened.  

Some stopped due to burnout.  Lemon Drop Pie, Ginny, was Voice of the Year in 2013 in the Heart category.  Her most recent post was June of 2024.   I met Ginny through a weekly meme challenge led by Second Blooming.  That blog site is gone.  The network she used is now defunct.  I cannot remember her name.  But I remember her joy raising a son, her husband's heart attack, and her seven fishes Christmas tradition.    

A few it was, sadly, due to illness and even death.  There was one 99 years old lady's blog that the announcement was made by her son that she had passed.  Another blog just ended with the post titled 'Cancer'.  Stage 3.  That was written on July3, 2022.  One Italian blogger has posted nothing since the height of the Covid outbreak in Italy.  I pray she was not a victim.

There are still a few of my old favs that I am still following. Little Wandering Wren still posts to Facebook stories.  Doses of Wild YAM is very much still posting regularly.  Wildbird Wednesday blog/photography meme already has posts for February 3rd.  Same with Skywatch Friday as submissions were made on January 29, 2026.  

There are two bloggers in Canada that regularly post.  Seasons in the Valley's writer, The Furry Gnome, resides near Georgian Bay in southern Ontario.  His writings influenced Hubby and I to visit that area in 2016.  That same trip took us to share dinner with Traces of the Soul writer, Cheryl Lynn.  That is a highlight to get to meet a person face to face.  

Through one blog or another I was led to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.  With that blog I learned about the beauty of haiku and other forms of Japanese poetry.  The author/teacher, Chèvrefeuille, of that blog is a nurse.  Due to the Covid pandemic he was unable to maintain the weekly meme challenges.   Attempts to revive the site have not succeeded.  Sure miss this site.

Visitors would be welcome again to this blog.  But first I must begin reconnecting.  I need to look for birds to photograph.  Surely I can take photos of the sky to rejoin that group.  After all, Covid is generally not the invisible enemy now.  But it left a dark stain on our physics.

Hope to see you soon,

Janice