Mother, terrorism and Kipling

My mother has had just about enough of Bush taking it on the chin because of the war in Iraq. She asks me what these people who criticize want . . . for more people to blow up more things and hurt more people on our soil? The Twin Towers, the Pentagon . . . and the targeted White House.  She remembers the attack on Pearl Harbor; she remembers the speech on December 8, that announced “A state of war exists . . .”

And this morning I found myself murmuring the lines of a 1914 Kipling poem:

FOR all we have and are,
For all our children’s fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!

Pioneer Woman timing awry

UH . . . I wrote this a year ago. Obviously the new site is slick and nice and professional and successful . . . and you’re probably here because she won the Blog of the Year.  I like the pictures of the ranch and  I am partial to her older daughter, but I don’t cook or do more than point and shoot with photography. And I don’t homeschool. I wish I could ride well, but then so does she . . . so we have that in common.

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The Pioneer Woman did two things just recently: She won the Best Written Bloggie Award ; she put her site in maintenance mode. This does not make sense to me. I would anticipate people unaware of her site clicking over because they have seen her url while skimming though a short article on the Bloggies.  When they tried to take a look, a maintenance page popped up – been there about three days now.

I don’t think she has a problem with having people visiting her site and clicking on the ads, sending in for her photos. I imagine “the pioneer woman.com” will be almost a brand name. But get recognition and then shut down for a bit – I don’t think so.

Well, things happen and there’s never a good time for things to go wrong or take longer than usual. Still, I think there was a better time to schedule the “changing event” because you know  . . . things happen, things go wrong, things take longer than usual.