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12-29-13: Courtesy of Samantha Han @ The bonding Tool

Sam has a unique blog that specializes in food reviews of Singapore

and other Far Eastern locales…please pay her a visit and see why

she won the Blogger of the Year Award and why she is a staple of the

WordPress blogging family.

http://thebondingtool.com/

The instructions for the Blog of the Year 2013 Award are simple:

1. Select the blog(s) you think deserve the Blog Of The Year 2013 Award.

2. Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there are no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ the blog(s) with their award.

3. Let the blog(s) that you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the instructions with them (please don’t alter the instructions or the badges!)

4. Come over and say hello to the originator of the Blog Of The Year 2013 Award via this link: http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/blog-awards-2-/blog-of-the-year-2013-award/

5. You can now also join the Blog Of The Year Award Facebook Page (closed group). Click the link here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlogoftheYear

Share your blog posts with an even wider audience.

6. And as a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with this award and then proudly display the award on your blog and start collecting stars!

 

12-9-2013  Courtesy of New Creations Ministries

Friday, 9-6-13, this award courtesy of “She’s Losing It”

Nice thing about this award…no questions asked,

just pass it along to ten bloggers that I read regularly,

the ones whom I quote on my blog.

The list of ten …tomorrow.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Thank you Perpetua, The Seeker, for this kind award:

http://theseeker57.wordpress.com

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My kind or award; no rules, no regulations, no questions asked,

just pass it on to those to whom you believe are deserving.

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July 25, 2012

many thanks to Laurie at “my zen city”

http://myzencity.com who has nominated me

for the super sweet blogging award – i am so honored!

THE 5 SWEET QUESTIONS:

1-Cookies or Cake?   Ice Cream

2-Chocolate or Vanilla?   swirl!

3–Favorite Sweet Treat?    My Wife

4-When do you crave sweet things the most?   24/7

5-Sweet Nick Name?  mikey

my ‘unofficial rules’ to the award winners:

please know i am not attached to the acceptance,

non-acceptance or whether or not you choose

to follow the award rules – i just wanted to nominate you!

THE OFFICIAL RULES:

1-Thank the Super Sweet Blogger that nominated you.

thank you, sweet Laurie…

2-Answer five super sweet questions.

3-Include the Super Sweet Blogging Award in your blog post.

4-Nominate a baker’s dozen (13) other bloggers.
*(since i’ve never baked a day in my life, my bakers dozen is 6 – you can choose what you want. . . .)

5-Notify your nominees on their blog.

Sweet Cristina from http://ambitioninthecity.com

Super sweet Sam from http://thebondingtool.com

The healthy eating Lisa from http://sheslosingit.net

Angie, my favorite Canuck from http://angiesgrapevine.wordpress.com

Cynthia, sweet poems and pics from Simple Pleasures

http://lesplaisirssimplesdelavie.wordpress.com

Sweet Li Jiun, my favorite philosopher from http://lijiun.wordpress.com

Sweet Becca, haikus and this and that from http://beccagivens.wordpress.com

Sweet Russel from http://russelrayphotos2.com

my personal tour guide to Southern California…

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July 15, 2013

I would like to thank  “thebondingtool”  for giving me this award!
Echoing Sam’s words, “I would like distribute this award with kindness, love and much respect to valued bloggers. Please accept it and feel free to put it on your blog, no rules for this.”

http://thebondingtool.com/2013/07/16/the-rose-of-kindness-award/

I will pass this on to those whom I read daily….in the near future.

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List:

http://newcreationsministries.wordpress.com

http://sheslosingit.net

http://everywhereonce.com

http://starrystez.com

http://russelrayphotos2.com

http://angiesgrapevine.wordpress.com

July 2, 2013…Thank you Ellie…New Creations Ministries

http://newcreationsministries.wordpress.com/author/

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I have been in receipt of a few awards lately, however, my time and my

incompetence on the blog cut and paste has prevented me from accepting

all the kudos that have been sent my way.

I will attempt to thank everyone and if your name and site have been

omitted, do not feel slighted, just chalk it up to Michael’s old age.

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Here are the Rules:

1. Link back to the person who nominated you.
2. Nominate (up to) eleven bloggers for these awards.
3. Notify the bloggers.
4. Ask eleven questions the bloggers must answer upon receiving the nomination.
5. Answer the eleven questions you were asked when you were nominated and post your awards.

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Here are Ellie’s questions for me to answer before I can post the awards:

1. Would you rather win an Academy Award, Nobel Prize, Pulitzer or Grammy?
Nobel Peace Prize…anything that can make this world a better place for all.

2. If you could interview anyone alive, who would it be and why?
Warren Buffett…awesome individual who has skills our nations leaders need to learn.

3. What era in history would you have loved to have lived?
Love the here and now..and it is only getting better.

4. Do you think parents play favorites with their children?
Not favorites, but they should support each child differently in order to meet their needs.

5. Do you prefer cooking at home or eating out?
Balance….some of both for many obvious reasons.
6. What’s the best gift you ever received?
Life…

7. If you could be anyone in history who would it be and why?
Michelangelo, Ben Franklin and/or a few others who were multi-talented, super productive.

8. Do you believe dinosaurs lived the same time as man?
Don’t know…don’t care…

9. Where do you see yourself  five years from now?
At 69 years of age I just hope to be sitting here writing in five years.

10. If you ever had “15 minutes of fame”, what was it for?
Not me…

11. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be and why?
On a sail boat visiting as many tropical ports as I could explore.
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Not being too original. I will borrow Ellie’s  questions for you

to answer before you can post the awards:

1. Would you rather win an Academy Award, Nobel Prize, Pulitzer or Grammy?
2. If you could interview anyone alive, who would it be and why?
3. What era in history would you have loved to have lived?
4. Do you think parents play favorites with their children?
5. Do you prefer cooking at home or eating out?
6. What’s the best gift you ever received?
7. If you could be anyone in history who would it be and why?
8. Do you believe dinosaurs lived the same time as man?
9. Where do you see yourself five years from now?
10. If you ever had “15 minutes of fame”, what was it for?
11. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be and why?

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My eleven nominations:

http://ambitioninthecity.com

http://lesleycarter.wordpress.com

http://otrazhenie.wordpress.com

http://travelspirit333.com

http://theshepherdspresence.wordpress.com

http://myzencity.com

http://awindowofwisdom.wordpress.com

http://senior1938voice.wordpress.com

http://leafandtwig.wordpress.com

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5-29-13      I have been given the

super sweet blogger award

http://myzencity.com  Thank you sweet Laurie

THE 5 SWEET QUESTIONS:

1-Cookies or Cake?   Old and overweight…no-no

2-Chocolate or Vanilla?   Pistachio

3–Favorite Sweet Treat?   IceCream

4-When do you crave sweet things the most?   I pray often.

5-Sweet Nick Name?         Honey

my ‘unofficial rules’ (borrowed from Laurie) to the award winners: please know i am not attached to the acceptance, non-acceptance or whether or not you choose to follow the award rules – i just wanted to nominate you!

THE OFFICIAL RULES:

1-Thank the Super Sweet Blogger that nominated you.

thank you, sweet Laurie

2-Answer five super sweet questions. (See Above)

3-Include the Super Sweet Blogging Award in your blog post.

4-Nominate a baker’s dozen (13) other bloggers.
*(since i’ve never baked a day in my life, my bakers dozen is 6 – you can choose what you want. ….. . Ditto for ME . …… . )

5-Notify your nominees on their blog.

My Nominees:

Sweet Angie:  http://angiesgrapevine.wordpress.com

Sweet Lisa:  http://sheslosingit.net

Sweet Mary: http://storieswithnobooks.com

Sweet Claudia: http://thesofisworld.com

and a few more tomorrow…

And please visit Laurie’s blog           http://myzencity.com

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I have been nominated for the Dragon’s Loyalty Award. May 17th, 2013

Thank you Angie.

http://angiesgrapevine.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/dragon-loyalty/

I will respond in kind in the near future as to what the award entails.

I also believe that there are some other award nominations

floating around in my in box…soon…and if I don’t get there…

THANK YOU…all…

Love, hugs and prayers…ME and the Boss

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I have been nominated again for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.

Thanks to :

The Seeker      http://theseeker57.wordpress.com

HillbillyZen    http://hillbillyzen.com

Thank you Angie for this Award.

Angie is a versatile blogger (she has that award too) who just blogs from

the heart. The joy is in not knowing what she will come up with next.

A Canadian who does not write with an accent (aye), however,  her mind

has obviously been warped by too many cold winters.

Please visit my friend at:

http://angiesgrapevine.wordpress.com/

1. Here are the rules of the “Very Inspiring Blogger Award:
   1.) Display the award logo on your blog.
   2.) Link back to the person who nominated you.
   3.) State 7 things about yourself.
   4.) Nominate 15 bloggers for this award.
   5.) Notify those bloggers of the nomination by linking to one of their specific posts so that they get notified by ping back

7 Facts about me 

1. I am a procrastinator, amazing that I post a blog a day,

sometimes more:       https://michaelerb.wordpress.com/

2. Old, said that before, and now the metabolism is down to zero.

My old nickname was “Fireplug”, my new nickname is “Bowling Ball”.

3. Working on my third wife (20 years), got drunk and lost the first two.

4. My mantra: “Be kind, be loving, be patient and tolerant, be forgiving,

be the person God wants me to be.”

Still working on the patience.  Stupidity (Politicians) ires me.

5. Quiet advocate. Pets, children and old people. (In that order)

6. Prayer, meditation and yoga are allowing me to better enjoy my life,

just wish I would have listened to the God messages when I was younger.

7. Seven years in Florida and I now am in love with the two seasons,

warm and hot. Brain freezes are no longer a threat.

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MY NOMINATIONS:

http://MyZenCity.com

http://senior1938voice.wordpress.com

(Us old folks have to stick together..He is a vocal advocate.)

http://awindowofwisdom.wordpress.com

http://espirational.com

http://bussokuseki.wordpress.com

http://leafandtwig.wordpress.com

http://ivonnemontijo.wordpress.com

http://moviejoltz.com

(Since I do not have the time, money or inclination to sit through a movie…this great blogger is my vicarious visitor to the cinema.)

http://chriscondello.wordpress.com

http://beckyandchaos.wordpress.com

http://amoonfull.wordpress.com

http://joyreturns.com

http://newcreationsministries.wordpress.com

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AND NOW FOR THE NEXT AWARD

On to the rules of accepting the Versatile Blogger Award     

• Thank the person who gave you this award. That’s common courtesy.
• Include a link to their blog. That’s also common courtesy — if you can figure out how to do it.
• Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly. ( I would add, pick blogs or bloggers that are excellent! Some that I have chosen are just unique.)
• Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award — you might include a link to this site.
• http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/about/                               This link gives you all the nitty gritty, just in case I didn’t follow the rules correctly, which I usually don’t.
• Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself

In no particular order I have recently started “following” these great blogs :

http://leafandtwig.wordpress.com/

http://helobiae.com/

http://awindowofwisdom.wordpress.com/

http://itstartedwithaquote.wordpress.com/

http://amoonfull.wordpress.com/

http://newcreationsministries.wordpress.com/

http://ronscubadiver.wordpress.com/

http://joyreturns.com/

http://senior1938voice.wordpress.com/

http://mybotanicalgarden.wordpress.com/

http://tracysite.wordpress.com/

http://scenickviewz.wordpress.com/

http://morningstoryanddilbert.wordpress.com/

http://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/

http://lijiun.wordpress.com/

About ME :

Seven Things: (Cheating…some things are borrowed from my About ME)

1. Old, by the grace of a loving Higher Power. (Retired in Florida)

2. Becoming a curmudgeon and learning to love it.

3. School teacher by education and probably one of the worst teachers ever. Thank God I did it for only 5 years.

4. Amateur photographer..all of the pictures in all of my blogs are mine.

5. I love quotes:

a.) Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.

~ Richard Kemph

b.) I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

~ Michel De Montaigne

6. I am a damned Yankee (Pennsylvania) .

Yankees go south to visit, Damned Yankees stay.

7. ME (are my initials) and the Boss, the Boss being either God or my wife, depending on who is standing beside me.

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Love, Hugs and Prayers,,,ME and the Boss

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