Comment For Charity In July To Help Heifer International

Last month we got 207 comments and donated $104 to Joni and Friends. We really appreciate all who commented. For July, we will donate 50 cents per comment to Heifer International, an organization I learned about through Ann Up North. What animal we can provide depends on the size of the donation. View this video to find out how this organization helps communities combat poverty.




$120 = pig or sheep or goat (we'll let our readers vote--tell us your choice in a comment here!)
$150 = llamba
$250 = water buffalo
$60 = rabbits
$20 = chicks or ducks

Help The National Children's Cancer Society By Commenting

Last month we had 281comments so donated $1 for each to The Last Hope Cat Kingdom to help them rebuild their shelter that burned down. That was way more comments than we expected! Although I said I'd give this plan a 3-month trial period, I can see this is really more than I expected so we are adjusting the amount to 50 cents per comment on all three of our blogs for the The National Children's Cancer Society.  (Hope you visit our other blogs too:  Grab A Book From Our Stack and My Funny Dad, Harry.)

I was a bit annoyed last month; however, with some anonymous spam comments, some of which included questions not at all related to my post. Not only that, but there was no way to contact them with an answer even if I wanted to because they were anonymous. Duh! Please do not ask me questions anonymously! I feel that if you don't want to put your name (or screen name at least) on your comments, then you shouldn't leave them. Anonymous comments are not included in our comment total unless it is related to the post in some way to make it a legitimate comment.

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Do You Visit The Old Geezer?

While walking Abby around our neighborhood, I saw this funny sign:

Immediately I thought of a blog recently discovered called “The Old Geezer Blog.” I think I found it through Saturday Samplings over at Half-Past Kissin’ Time. He is a Christian blogger who has his testimony posted via a link on his sidebar. Do you read sidebars on blogs? If not, you are missing out on some interesting things. His blog is very easy to read, uncluttered with interesting posts about general every day things that are thought provoking. I always enjoy his graphics that he includes in his posts too. He has over 1100 followers but still responds to comments I leave there. Stop by to visit The Old Geezer Blog if you get a chance. I’m sure you will enjoy your visit there and maybe add him to your blog roll or become a follower.

Do you ever look at blog rolls on other blogs? Sometimes I do and have found some good ones that way. Also, if you like comments a good way is to read those comments left on other blogs and if someone leaves one you find interesting or amusing, visit their blog and leave a comment for them. Chances are they will visit you back. At least you know they leave comments.

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I Wish I Could Read The Comments On My Most Popular Post!

UPDATED 10/20/09 AT 3:45 P.M.: Thanks for all your help everyone. I had a feeling it was junk but since it looked like it came from different people, wasn't sure. This is crazy! I deleted all of them and activated comment moderation for posts older than 14 days for now--I spent 20 minutes cleaning this mess up--not how I had planned on using this time but I'm glad it's solved now.

What is my most popular post on this blog? It's "Will God Forgive Abortion?" It has 45 comments but unfortunately, most of them are apparently in a different language so I don't have a clue what's going on (only 7 are in English). At first, I thought it was spam so just deleted a couple when they started up, but then I realized that perhaps it was Japanese or Chinese because there were different numbers of characters as the names. Maybe if you took a look at the comments on that post, you could help me out. I assume there must be some heated discussion going on there. I can't really moderate if it I don't know what they are saying.

Has this ever happened on your blog? Should I count this in my most popular posts even though most of the comments are not in English? What would you do? Can anyone translate for me or at least summarize what is going on there? It's the only post that this happened on.

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