Here I am 53 years old and starting a blog. What got me to wanting to write this blog was missing my grandparents. I told my kids the other day I wanted and old person, they both looked at me and said "Mom you are an old person."
Ok I knew that but what I really meant was i wanted someone to talk to about, gardening, cooking, kids, dogs and decorating. I have tons of ideas running around in my head, most of which aren't really important to anyone but me. My thoughts were maybe someone else who's old would enjoy listening if I would be willing to listen to their thoughts. Sort of a trade if you will, listen to me and I will listen to you.
After a few days of thinking about this I have given up on finding an old person, and came up with writing a blog. I couldn't come up with any good way to find another person that would fit what I wanted. You can't place a want ad "Old person wanted, must love gardening, dogs, cooking decorating, and kids sometimes. Please call with you info and I will get back to you as soon as possible." That just didn't seem to be the way to go, after all you might get someone you hate talking to that has a nasty habit or even worse another me.
Blogging seems to be a way for me to write stuff down and have others answer my blog or link me theirs so we can share ideas and thoughts about life I guess or pretty much anything that seems to be interesting.
The next problem is coming up with a name, a nice site and writing something that someone else will find interesting reading.
Ok now I have the site and plan to write about stuff, not sure how this will turn out but here goes the very first post of Mud between my toes.