If you are still here with me. Blogging and Writing and Publishing. Then I applaud your tenacity! We are amazing! We have beaten off the naysayers and we are stars!
Lately I have had a hankering to find all our old blogger friends from the old days on the Farmy. Yes, there is housekeeping going on but this farm blog has been in existence since July 2011 and has plenty of life in it yet!
The Kitchens Garden has had almost 3 million views now. (Oh how I wish everyone had left a dollar). 2,784 posts. And when I look back the colour looks brighter back then. What is that about? It must have been my editing. Or everything looks better in the OLDEN DAYS. OR possibly because we are in the sepia season out here on the prairies right now?.
Here is my very first post on July 4 2011.
For years I blogged every day, then I got a full time (12 hour day) job then I lost the plot and went on sabbatical. (After coming close to burning right out during the pandemic). All over the last decade. And now I am up-scaling and re-vamping and monetizing (without ads so do not be afraid) but in the end this will still be a farm blog and sometimes a travel blog. It will still be me.
So where are they all? The other bloggers – our old friends.
Mad continues to post the most amazing food by the way.
And thank you SO MUCH for hanging with me through the Rough Time. You are my stars!
Do you know where some of the others have gone? Have they all gone to (horror) Instagram? I follow their names and get: Not Found. Private Blog. Nothing since years ago.
This has become a very odd post but I am genuinely wanting to get back in touch.
Is blogging still a thing?
I had better get to work. It is Sunday and sunny and I am reorganising the feed shed. I’ll show you next time.
Very soon I am going to quit the online teaching and be back farming full time – then I will be blogging much more often and managing The Sustainable Home that we are building next door.
Love Celi
Love Love Celi!!
The Kitchen's Garden 
79 responses to “Where have all the bloggers gone?”
Still here and still blogging. 🙂
I know! I pop over every now and then! Take care Jim! c
Oh Celi ~ I have been so very sick for over a week with this terrible really swelled red sore throat, nonstop hard coughing and choking, nonstop running nose, awful tight chest, stomach muscles and ribs feel like they’re torn and broken, super achy ~ ~ tests for strept throat and covid ~ but negative ~ thank goodness. Today is the first I’m up a bit. Dr says everybody in Central Illinois has it. So I’ve been super miserable. Of course with the stress of Jerry being gone ~ sure doesn’t help. Miss him so much. I want to send you a check for your family and friends for the flooding ~ oh that’s so terrible. So so sorry for them. I sure never saw anything on the news about it ~ and I tape all the news channels. Better take Boo with ya so he can help out!!!
take care and love ya Celi.
You poor thing getting so sick! I also had that stomach bug for a day or so and it was explosive! I know how your ribs feel. No nee to send money for the flooding – our truck has already delivered our donations. The next donations I will hand deliver in June. You get better and get back out into your garden – hopefully that will help with your grief.
As you know, I’m still here — and was happy as could be to see the email for this post pop up. I’m still no farmer or gardener, but I have found a source for the bestest eggs ever — a local guy with a real flock, and the business name of Kenz Henz! I’ve read some interesting articles recently about revivified blogging; it seems some people are getting tired of twitter/insta/facebook etc. As the saying has it, what goes around, comes around!
Oh that IS interesting – hah!! Maybe we will be caught up in a revival!!
Still here and writing much less these days. But I’m hoping to get back into posting more often this year! Love reading your adventures on and off the Farmy!
That is great! Thank you so much!
We are in revival phase now! Maybe a little less off the farm this year but still a good trip coming up in June!
I miss blogging but I have very little time to devout to it lately. I have been trying to post my adventures via photos on Facebook for now until I can figure out my next steps. I so need an update in technology too – laptop, photo storage, etc. I continue to read what the other bloggers are up to though. Happy Day – Enjoy 🙂
Still here…still post a few times a year…life gets in the way at times.
Yes!! Life has a habit of doing that! I will pop over and see what you have posted lately!
I am still here! I’ve been blogging for years and years I started in 2007 and came on board your blog just about the time you started in 2011.
Blogging is my outlet for my thoughts, my love of our farm, writing, and taking photos. Like you I’ve lots of people along the way, but I have gained many close friends who are still reading my blog today.
I have not gone over to Instagram. Too much work for me. I do post to FaceBook as so many of my readers only do FaceBook.
I’m glad you are back.
Linda
I have only been posting every week or so lately before that we went a while with once a month!! But I am back in the hot seat now and raring to go.
I do pop over every now and then to see how you are doing. It looks cold there still!
Not like it was—it’s warming up and we are melting. I think (Hope) we have entered MUD season!
Still following your wonderful stories! Though I have not done much of my own blogging lately. The past few years have a taken a mental toll on many of us it seems, including myself. Keep the blog going!
Hi Amanda! Thank you so much for hanging in there with us!
I hope you are feeling better. I feel like I am cresting and coming up for air!
I am still a blogger–have been for about 14-15 years now–and have been reading you for a long time–I am a senior who lives in HUD Senior apt complex in the south–so I have done my farming through you–I do do alot of hand crafted items–I do cross stitching, quilting with only hand quilted quilts when finished–I applique, and do embroidery and I knit baby sweaters for charity–I am a simple gal and love the sunshine and warmth and nature (do some photography too) But I can’t garden or have animals–so I live on your farm with you–and I hate all the advertising on the blog sites it’s way too much and have deleted some of them cause of it–so thankyou that you aren’t going to be doing that here–
hugs, diane
I’m still here… I actually have three blogs, but am only active on two. I don’t have IG or FB or Twitter or TikTok, so I’m just a blogger. And I’ve followed you for all the years I’ve been blogging. Sometimes your blog booted me off, but I came back. Sometimes WP lost you and I went and found you again. Keep blogging. We need our senior (in experience, not years) bloggers, our community. Yours is a particularly enduring and lovable format.
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Three blogs! Wow! That is a lot of work!
Only one really takes up much time, but it would feel very weird not to blog at all, after all these years. We do it for community, don’t we? To share ideas, achievements, information, opinions. It’s become almost a form of journaling, but with friends.
Still here…kinda.
I am happy to see you are still around. I do pop in on you every now and then!!
I’m still blogging, but there were a couple of years that I barely kept it going. I hate that as it’s a great journal and I am missing so much. It all got posted on IG, but it’s so hard to look back to find something old over there. Sigh…
Have a bread question. How do you keep your fresh bread? I don’t like mine to dry out, but hate using plastic bags.
Good on you Celi! You are an inspiration … I must get a post out!
Yes!! We are the Blogging Renaissance!