i’ve been tagged!

Thanks to Mary Ann at Urban Gar­den Jour­nal, this blog has been tagged. Actu­ally, it’s the sec­ond time I’ve been tagged. (Thanks, In the Gar­den!) But I was swamped at the time and didn’t get a chance to respond. Also, I was even newer to blog­ging than I am now, and wasn’t famil­iar with the game of blog tag. In my occa­sion­ally over-cynical mind I mis­took it to be some sort of sus­pect blogger’s pyra­mid scheme. But in the mean­time I’ve real­ized it’s actu­ally a fun game and a ter­rific way to get to know more about your fel­low bloggers.

The rules as passed down to me from the two tag­gers are sim­ple, though the two sets of rules vary a bit. If I’ve tagged you, you can pick whichever ver­sion you like, or make up some­thing along these lines:

  1. Once you have been tagged, in your blog you must list six (or ten) weird things, ran­dom facts, or habits about yourself.
  2. In that same post, tag five (or six) other blog­gers, by link­ing to their blogs and writ­ing a lit­tle about why you’re tag­ging that blog.
  3. Once you’ve done the above, you should leave a note on the blog of the per­son who tagged you. (That would be me.)
  4. The per­son that is tagged can’t tag back the per­son who just tagged them.

So…some ran­dom­ness about me:

  1. “Mulch” is one of my favorite words–not to gar­den with it, nec­es­sar­ily, just the sound of of the word.
  2. My shoe size is 11.
  3. When other chil­dren were want­ing to be fire­men or police offi­cers I was think­ing that I wanted to be a col­lege pro­fes­sor. I didn’t grow out of it until I was three years into a grad­u­ate pro­gram in music.
  4. Though I enjoy nov­els, I read mostly non-fiction books.
  5. The Four Cor­ners region of Ari­zona, New Mex­ico, Col­orado and Utah is prob­a­bly my favorite place on earth.
  6. I love good chocolate.
  7. In my teen years I appeared as an extra in Paul Bartel’s film, Death Race 2000.
  8. I appre­ci­ate order, but I seem to attract chaos at least as much.
  9. I have a big yel­low ocean kayak in the side yard that I haven’t taken out on the water in at least four years.
  10. I don’t con­sider myself par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in pop­u­lar culture–I wouldn’t know a Brit­ney Spears if one jumped up from the side­walk and bit me on the butt–but I do enjoy Bravo TV’s Project Run­way and Top Chef real­ity shows, as well as the Daily Show.

And now for the blog­gers I’m tagging:

Gar­den His­tory Girl: Excel­lent insights into gar­dens today, informed by gar­dens past, as well as notes on cul­tural influ­ences that can influ­ence garden-making.

The Mid­night Gar­den: A blog­ger on Cape Cod enjoy­ing his gar­den and its seasons–as well as his morn­ing cups of coffee.

Gar­den Wise Guy: Always infor­ma­tive, usu­ally funny, some­times even a lit­tle snide–and com­ing from me that’s a com­pli­ment! You might not want your gar­den to appear on his blog…sometimes like a 10 worst-dressed list…

Land­scape + Urban­ism: A great roundup of things in the out­door urban­ism realm. Lots of fun ideas to steal and down-size for your own garden.

Pacha Mona: What’s it like to live and gar­den and cook with inter­est­ing ingre­di­ents in Costa Rica? This blog cap­tures the tex­tures and fla­vors of a place that’s on my “visit some­day” list.

Gar­den Porn: With a name like that what’s not to like? A fun read and some great spaces to boot.

There are more–lots more–that I enjoy and would have loved to have tagged. But I need to keep some in store for the next time I’m tagged. And if I haven’t tagged you but you’d like to play, please do! I’ll add you to my list here.

July 15 2008 06:57 pm | Categories: gardening • landscape design • rambles | Tags: •

4 Responses to “i’ve been tagged!”

  1. Greg on 15 Jul 2008 at 7:52 pm #

    “Mulch” is a great word. It’s so much more than just one syl­la­ble, don’t you think?

    I’ve only been kayak­ing once, but it was in the Atlantic surf off Nau­set Beach. Cool expe­ri­ence, espe­cially when the seal decided to shadow me and pro­vided the Peter Bench­ley like feel­ing I was being fol­lowed by some­thing dark beneath the waves. D’oh, that coulda been my #26.

    So…tagged again, am I? Well, you caught me on the miss­ing item from my formerly-known-as Hot One Hun­dred List, so I will make good on that…and really, can I build a post around one item? I bet I could, but we’ll see. Not guar­an­tees on the time­li­ness, but we’ll see what happens!

    Thanks for the tag. I’m hon­ored. You bastard. ; )

  2. Greg on 15 Jul 2008 at 8:29 pm #

    By which I mean no besmirch­ment of your Mom’s honor, of course.

    You yellow-hating bastard.

    : )

  3. lostlandscape on 15 Jul 2008 at 8:49 pm #

    No rush…

    At one point I thought it’d be cool to pad­dle the 20ish miles to Catalina from near Long Beach and back after explor­ing around the island. I was work­ing up to it and then got dis­tracted. At the time it seemed pretty far, but there’s a guy who used to be here in town who’d kayaked from Mon­terey Bay to Maui, but he called it quits and didn’t pad­dle back. No follow-through, I tell ya…

    Funny that you bring up the word “bastard”–twice! You’ll like the title of tomor­row night’s post when through the magic of auto­mated pub­lish­ing it hits the web long after I’m asleep…

  4. tina on 16 Jul 2008 at 12:47 pm #

    Wow! Are you sure I tagged you? That must’ve been like back in March. Oh well, bet­ter late than never. I think you should take your kayak out-enjoy it. Four years has been a long time. Take care.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply