Blogging Questionnaire Day 7: Account Type

This blogging questionnaire celebrates Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (April 25-May 15). See the questionnaire introduction post.

Do you have a free account or a paid account on Dreamwidth? What features or other factors made you choose that option? Would you recommend your option to other bloggers? Why or why not?

I have a paid account here.

I need the polling function, which I use often. I find the expanded icons very useful, because I like having an icon for each different series, along with some other functions.

If you use Dreamwidth for professional purposes, or even high-traffic personal ones, then the additional features and storage of a paid account will probably be worthwhile. For anyone, though, it's a chance to support one of the few platforms with really good moderation/privacy tools. I think that's something valued by most of us here.

How to Be a Hippie / Bohemian

This year in Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I've decided to feature hippies. Today explores how to be a hippie or Bohemian.

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Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy and cool.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows, a pair of doves, a pair of cardinals, and a blue jay. 

Today's Adventures

We went up to visit Dad today.  We had lunch there, and a nice visit.  It ran longer than intended due to some issues with his vehicle, but that's settled at least for now.

On the way home we stopped at a park that Doug found.  It's mostly marsh.  There's a tower and a boardwalk, both a bit rickety with age.  We saw a bald eagle, a great blue heron, a pair of swans, masses of blackbirds, a lot of ducks in various types, and a lot of Canada geese.  There were some small brown-striped marsh birds that I've never seen before.  I suspect they were some sort of rail, perhaps king rails. There was also a mammal swimming, possibly a muskrat.  Something had build big mounds, almost like a beaver nest, but made of cattails instead of sticks, which also had not seen before.  Apparently muskrats make two kinds of homes: a burrow in a bank, or piles of vegetation like that.  Fascinating little park, and I hope to see it again before it gets too buggy.

Mixed Quotes Bingo Card 5-1-22

Here is my card for the Mixed Quotes Bingo Fest over in allbingo. It has several different categories. I have made a mixed card. (See all my 2022 bingo cards.)

If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. I've had a few requests for this and the results have been awesome so far. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.

Underlined prompts have been filled.


MIXED QUOTES BINGO CARD

“There is some good in this world~ and it’s worth fighting for.” (The Two Towers)	“I am not much for words. Most things are better left unsaid." (NCIS)	"What we've got here is a failure to communicate." (Cool Hand Luke)	"Houston we have a problem." (Apollo 13)	"DNA doesn't make a family. Love does." (The Fosters)
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” (Fight Club)	"At the end of the day~ if we don't hang together~ we die alone." (CSI: Miami)	"This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." (Casablanca)	"You complete me." (Jerry Maguire)	“Whatever our souls are made of~ his and mine are the same.” (Wuthering Heights)
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." (Mahatma Gandhi)	"Let’s be careful out there." (Hill Street Blues)	WILD CARD	“There are some things you learn best in calm~ and some in storm.” (The Song of the Lark)	"I am the danger." (Breaking Bad)
“What you do makes a difference~ and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” (Jane Goodall)	“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” (The Phantom Tollbooth)	“Ohana means family~ and family means nobody gets left behind... or forgotten.” (Lilo & Stitch)	“The world breaks everyone~ and afterward~ many are strong at the broken places.” (A Farewell to Arms)	“The next time you want to take a swing at someone~ start with me.” (CSI:Miami)
“Never mess with a Marine’s coffee if you want to live.” (NCIS)	“Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.” (Beyoncé)	"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them." (Madam C.J Walker)	"You can't handle the truth!" (A Few Good Men)	"I can't change the direction of the wind~ but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." (Jimmy Dean)

Small Plates - A Food Ficlet Fest

If you like writing about food, check out the Small Plates fest over on robotsoup.