1052nd Friday Blog Roundup
Even though I continued to post a backup reminder every Friday in the Roundup (see below), the truth was that while I was doing some backups, I was not doing others. When I got back from college drop-off, I wrote out a backup plan that I can follow each week, step by step, that covers everything. I have returned to a thorough backup job. It’s a good feeling.
This is a long way of saying that backups are a good idea, but they only happen if you make a plan and follow it.
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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.
Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.
As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.
And now the blogs…
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But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- “In Conclusion: My Childless by Marriage Commencement Address” (Childless by Marriage)
Okay, now my choices this week.
No Kidding in NZ asks when caring counts. If you say you care but you never express that care towards another individual, do you actually care? She writes, “I understand that others might have limitations that mean they can’t provide the support we want and need. Even after we specifically articulate what we want and need. But being told that ‘they care’ is really irrelevant, if the person in need of support doesn’t feel that.” It’s an important reminder to show that care if you feel it.
The Barreness has a great post about being invited to a book club while waiting for her car at the mechanic. Book club may require quotation marks around the term. Click over to read what happens at the meeting of bog witches.
Infertile Phoenix talks about why it is difficult to recover. She explains, “One of the many reasons why I grieved so hard and so long for my unrealized dream of raising children is the idea that parenting is so pervasive that it’s the default way of thinking.” She gives the example of a frustrating conversation with her mum.
Lastly, A Half-Baked Life writes about deadheading flowers, a term I know but I don’t quite understand what it looks like in practice. She writes: “I guess in some ways it’s a little zen; don’t get too attached to the flowers, let them go, others will come. But it’s hard to be so ruthless when it comes to the things you love, isn’t it?” This line got to me: “It’s all terribly unfair, this pruning process, when we’re so prone to attachment.” I definitely am.
The roundup to the Roundup: Backups are good. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between August 29 – September 19) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week. Read the original open thread post here.
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Did you want to know more about dead-heading? I used to be pretty good about it, but no longer. With certain plants, you can get reblooms if you dead-head. (For others, they only bloom once a season, so it doesn’t matter, but cutting the dead stuff back is aesthetically pleasing.) In my yard, it was a butterfly bush, balloon flowers, and the knock out rose bush. And the mums, sometimes. Once the bloom starts to wither, if you cut it off, the plant can turn its energy to new growth/blooms. So the more you cut back the dead blooms, the more new blooms you’ll get. You can let the old flowers just recede on their own, but you won’t always get new flowers. For things like Daylilies or black-eyed Susans or columbine or hostas, it doesn’t really matter. For things like sunflowers, it’s somewhat ecologically counterproductive because the birds will eat the seeds as long as the flower head is still there. I had a whole flower garden planted in front for our first several years. Eventually, we pulled it all out and put in some low maintenance bushes.