BIRTHDAYS...I LOVE "EM !!!

Happy Hive Birthday! You are on the Hive blockchain for 3 years!

SAY WHAT??

Are you kidding? Three years already, seems like yesterday I did my first "blog" on ~~steemit~~ #hive. I didn't have a clue as to what to do. After joining the new club, I just read posts and tried to navigate all the tech stuff. I was told this would be a fun new thing to do now that I was retired and had some extra time. Ok???? but I still wasn't convinced I wanted to spend hours and hours sitting at a computer writing essays about something that no one would be interested in, most likely. It was @thebigsweed who got me involved through cooking.

That grabbed my interest. I do enjoy cooking and baking, give me some hungry peeps, and I am in my glory.

warm seasoned bread, right out of the oven!

After my introduction post, I found a niche, #fff, (food fight Friday) it had some really funny and interesting people there that kept me coming back each week to throw around some flour and jokes. I was hooked. Of course, it took me several posts to understand the Friday part. DUH!
But thankfully, after a few fish slaps from @splatts and some encouragement from @puravidaville, I kept moving forward.

@keithboone introduced me to #featheredfridays, and @melinda010100 kept me going with her vast knowledge of our #featherdedfriends, I now was a #birdwatcher. What a great hobby that has turned out to be. Thanks guys.

It has been a wild and wonderful ride so far. I have met so many interesting and kind people through this network. I have to mention some others #hiveans that have helped me stick it out, even though I felt a fool when I voted for the wrong witnesses during the steem/hive debacle.

A big thank you to @tarazkp, @crimsonclad and many others who went to bat for me so I wouldn't miss out on the airdrop. Sweet!

Lessons learned.

@dandays, what a patient man, looking back I don't know how he put up with this dumb blonde, honestly, it's embarrassing how naive I was. But thank you my friend. You kept me in the game.

@intothewild thrilled me with his youthful adventures and after meeting @lizelle I quickly learned presentation means a lot when serving up your recipes. @plantstoplanks has us eating better by tempting us with her awesome vegan dishes and @riverflows has me doing more research than ever before finding natural ways to heal ourselves.

With @goldenoakfarm, we have discovered better ways to #homestead, grow food and create beautiful gardens. And...my friend @dswigle, who turned me on to #alwaysaflower, one of my passions, growing flowers to color our world.