I Need A Gimmick

I note that yesterday's blog was my 300th entry for 2011.  Wow I can hardly imagine first of all that that much time has elapsed since I started blogging, and secondly that I have somehow found enough material to keep it going.  Thirdly, I still quite enjoy the process and fourth - as of today, I hope to reach the 10,000 hit on my site.

I am sincerely indebted to my faithful readers and really do get excited every time I see that someone has left a comment.  For those of you who blog, you realize a reader comment is like a big slab of chocolate cake or a slice of warm brie.

I don't want to get greedy but I'd like to increase my readership.  I know I said I was doing this for myself, but I do put a fair bit of thought and effort into it (surprised you there didn't I!) and it would be nice to meet even more like-minded folks and get more feedback.  Starting to sound like I need to attend bloggers anonymous.

Okay it should be a question mark, I know.

I've contemplated adding a word of the day.  You can check my one blog out where I determined to find out the meanings of ten words that I'd heard but never used in my own vocabulary (well at least not correctly).Lets Expand Our Minds

How about a thought of the day -- I'm not sure that is me -- sounds a tad profound. But it might be something to do occasionally.

What about a joke of the day?  Unfortunately I am not a great wittster, and I would have to be stealing these from the internet -- which I suppose is not so awful, provided I give credit, where credit is due.  After all, if I personally could come up with a great one-liner, pun, or clever witticism every day, I'd be writing clever sitcom dialogue somewhere in a cushy, Hollywood office.

I could become controversial.  Nah that's not me either -- you saw how I handled the results of our last Canadian federal election -- I'm not even sure who I voted for, when I reread it!

I could open a home for unwanted animals -- don't laugh, that is one of the popular themes that I see in several of the blogs I read, and one that garners copious comments.  Ah but wait, my municipality has ruled I have to have 50 acres before I can even own a chicken.  I could park a wreck on my front lawn, or have an acre or two of solar panels, but heaven forbid I offend council and the neighbours by owning a couple of egg machines.

I could pick a theme and stick with it for a week, a month, a year .............. how many ways can you say BORING!  Actually though, maybe I should try to stick with a particular topic for each day of the week, so that my gardening followers would know to stay tuned on Tuesdays, just as a for instance.  But then I'd be hemming myself into something I don't really want to be.  If I want to discuss the tea in China, on a Tuesday, then that's probably what I'd do anyway.  Remember I mentioned how I liked being my own publisher and editor....ahh the power.

I could champion a cause. I could go all environmental.  People are definitely in a save-the-world mode (well few actually take it to heart, but deep down in their souls we really really want to be green). Maybe I should support a charity or solve world issues.

I could sponsor a contest.  I need to think about that one.  That may have some merit.  How would you like me to come and revitalize your gardens for a day, just one small catch you'd have to pay the airfare to get me there - remember poor-as-church-mouse syndrome!  Do I have any wealthy readers in Ireland?

I could do something outlandish (beyond the realm of controversial).  I could walk across Africa and chronicle my daily encounters with tsetse flies.  Actually, I recently finished a book about a couple who traversed the country of France.  The missus and I are contemplating--just what, I have no idea at present.

Nude photos -- okay now we are getting silly.

Provocative titles - well there is something to having the right choice of words in your title bar.  I note my largest readership to date is for a very boring little entry I wrote about 'Smartboard Technology'.  Obviously people who have googled that particular phrase have "chanced across the blog of a middle-aged Ontarian who discusses (with very little actual knowledge or authority) such mundane topics as gardening, music, supply teaching, genealogy, and cooking."

And that is about all I have to say for today.

Musings and meanderings from the Musical Gardener.