Seven, Seven, Lucky Number Seven

David who writes the blog Brits in the USA has kindly chosen me to receive a 7x7 Award.  Thank you, David, for choosing to pass this award on to me.  If you haven't visited David's blog, stop by and read some of his posts.  His blog posts are thoughtful, clever, often humorous, and always very well-written.

I'm supposed to list my top blog posts in each of the categories below and then pass the award on to seven others.  I don't  know that I really know the answer to these, so a guess is the best that I can do.


Most Beautiful:  This category was a tough one for me to choose because so many things can be considered beautiful in different ways.  Some of my posts about spring flowers or the colors of autumn leaves I thought were beautiful. Other people might say some of my posts about icicles in the winter were the ones they remember as beautiful.  What I finally decided on was one of my sunset posts.  It is called  Sunset Punch and has  a poem I wrote as well as photos of a changing sunset that I viewed.


Most Popular:  According to my Google stats, my most popular post ever on this blog was one called Stilettos, Squints, and Kibbles and Bits.  It was one of my mish-mash posts that I wrote after a short absence from blogging when I caught up my readers on what had been going on in my life.   I think the only reason it was popular was because it had several key words in it that were popular in Google searches, not because it was particularly interesting or well-written!   


Most Helpful: I don't know how helpful any of my blog posts are.  I don't think many of them are really helpful to anyone, but one that might be considered helpful would be the one called It Runs in the Family.  It was one that I wrote that came from the heart about saying final goodbyes to my Mom.  The only reason that I think it might have been helpful is that it addressed an issue that many of my readers could identify with.  Many of my experiences in that post were similar to the ones my readers had lived through or are living through now.


Most Controversial: I don't think I've written many controversial posts.  Focusing on controversial topics really isn't something that I choose to do.  Alienating people isn't one of my goals.  However, there is one post that I wrote called African Wild Cats in the Basement that caused a bit of a stir.  It was a post I did about my sister-in-law's business of raising exotic cats.  I mistakenly gave wrong information in the post and people wrote to me from all over to let me know that I had gotten it wrong! haha!  I didn't mean to lead anyone astray, I just had been given the wrong information.   I added an update to the post and the controversy, if you can call it that, went away.


Most Surprisingly Successful:  I don't know for sure how to answer this one either, but I do remember several posts that I did about a bunny nest that was in our yard that seemed to go over well.  This is one of the several posts that I did on that topic.  This post shows the baby bunnies first  Venturing Out of the Nest.


Most Underrated: I guess for this category I would choose something that I posted long ago in one of those first early months of blogging.  I would say it is underrated mainly because I don't think many have ever even read it. I posted it when I had very few visitors and followers to my blog back when I was first starting.  It is actually something quite different from the kinds of things I post ordinarily on my blog now.  It is a children's story with a bit of fantasy thrown in.   Lily and Randolph (a children's story)  was the title.


Most Prideworthy:  For this category, I would probably choose one of the posts written about my sons, because I can't think of anything I'm more proud of than my sons.  It is hard for me to choose just one post, but this one titled  I Must be Doing Something Right  came to my mind.


Well, that is my list of seven.  This was much harder to pick and choose than I thought it would be.


Now I am supposed to choose seven bloggers to give this award to so they can do this meme.  However, I'm not going to choose partly because I read so many great blogs that I don't think I could narrow the list to just seven and partly because I know that many of my readers prefer not to do these tag types of posts, and I don't want to put anyone on the spot.  


But, if you're reading this and would like to do a post like this on your blog and feature your top seven in these categories, please tell me in the comments and grab that picture up there to post with your list.  Then, I will link your blog to this post for everyone to read.  Thank you again to David for passing this on to me.