high five - nice PICF entry, great finds.
I dont think I have welcomed you to #tenkminnows yet. please only use the tag once a day and keep posting great content ( and finding great authors) so we can help get you over the line

Thanks a lot! :) However, I think I've just become a minnow :D

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Not a minnow until you own 500sp, leased SP doesn't count.

You are really close. We may be able to help it happen quicker with #TenKMinnows

I supported both your featured posts.
Thank you for your entry. I look forward to seeing more entries from you in the future

Hahaha, it's been nearly 10 months now and still, I haven't figured out how to calculate my SP right. Lol :D

Thanks for your support! I really appreciate it! :)

Thank you @wolfhart!

Great entry I did one off these before and Nice to See that the account is doing good

Thank you for the entry @insight-out; I enjoyed and supported both of them. Supported you with a 100%-er to help you reach minnow-hood too :)

Oh, great! :) So, we have the same "taste" for good posts :D

Thank you very much! <3

We do ad goat-girlz is very cool

Hi, you may not know me, and i dont really know you. However, i saw through tryskele that you are trying hard to obtain minnowhood....so, i give you a gift. I only ask that you please use it to powerup. But if you don't, i won't be upset. After all, It is a gift. All i ask in return is that you in return take a moment to help someone else. Until we meet again, i send you and yours all my love and happy peaceful vibrations.

Wow! Thank you very much! This is so generous of you!!! I will definitely Pay It Forward to someone else the following month! <3

You're welcome! I hope it all helps :)

I think this is a great entry. I have visited Iceland and love farming... and supported both of your bloggers.

Thank you @viking-ventures!

I have visited Iceland

Oh, I am a bit jealous right now :D

and love farming

I also love farming... in theory though :D I have never really looked after anything bigger than a flower pot :D But my husband and I just bought a spot to build a house and yey, we will finally have our own garden :) I have so many plans for it :D :D :D

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When I discovered one year that Iceland Air was the cheapest (or second cheapest) route between London and Minneapolis - and that a layover was FREE as long as it was at least three nights - I decided to have us do that stopover. AMAZING!!! My only regret is that I should have done it on the way out rather than the way back (jet-lag) as it cost me seeing the northern lights. Anyway, I highly recommend it!

I can't wait to see your pictures as you develop your garden then! I haven't been able to do the whole shebang for a long, long time, but I keep hoping we'll have that bit of land I can farm on again...

but I keep hoping we'll have that bit of land I can farm on again...

I hope you do! Being close to land and nature makes incredible things to the human mind and body!

I am not sure if I am going to share our gardening experience. I was actually thinking of doing some homesteading posts but we will see :) I try to stick to my blogs' theme but sometimes I am really tempted to write about other things :)

You know, one of the beauties of steem is that you don't have to stick to a niche. That was the thing that kept me from being a successful blogger before - and it's the thing that makes this platform work for so many.

During the typical week, I have many book posts, but I also have posts about: photography, art, contests, genealogy, whatever I feel like doing at the time.

Nice job winning a prize this week!

"I try to stick to my blogs' theme but sometimes I am really tempted to write about other things :)"

My advice / encouragement @insight-out? Take a "walk on the wild side" and write about whatever is on your heart! 😊 ...

Seriously, you'll then find out, rather quickly (at least that is my experience), what other Steemians value, although I believe even that is somewhat misleading ...

All depends on the purpose of the writing, I think. While I value "being paid" for writing, of course, I also find some sort of therapeutic value in simply having written some posts, no matter what value the Steem blockchain may place on them ...

Oh, I won a prize :D Yey :)

Well, it's all about priorities. I came on Steemit with the intent to make a psychology blog because I was going to make it anyway in my native language... But writing in English was a challenge and I decided to give it a go and translate the articles in Bulgarian later. So far, I haven't translated a thing and my Bulgarian blog doesn't exist. I put myself a deadline to create it till June 2019. However, writing about other topics is a distraction from my initial goal and will take valuable time away. On the other hand, my Steemit blog starts to live its own life and I am tempted to start "distracting" myself on other topics. Maybe I should give it a go and see where is it all heading :) I don't know yet :)

Thanks for your encouragement! :)

Thanks for sharing your experience, @viking-ventures! :) I appreciate it. Like I wrote to @roleerob I had a particular idea of having a psychology blog. However, maybe I should let my Steemit blog to be in a Steemian way :D We will see :)

Certainly understandable @insight-out. I appreciate the narrower focus and your desire to keep time "in here" limited due to other priorities.

In time, we'll find out what you have deemed best! Just don't leave ... 😉

BTW, I think your English is very good. I don't know to what you would attribute this, but thought I would mention it.

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BTW, I think your English is very good. I don't know to what you would attribute this, but thought I would mention it.

Oh, thank you so much for saying this. A year ago I would think that an English blog is just a "mission impossible". It's funny how sometimes we are completely unaware of what we are capable of doing and we limit ourselves.

English has become a universal language. If you want to be part of the world, you need to know it. Otherwise, you will be left out :) I have been studying it since childhood but I have much more to learn :) I guess when you are a foreigner you can never truly master a language especially if you have never lived in the countries where it is natively spoken :)

Oh, you are very welcome @insight-out. You have an interesting perspective and I suppose I have not really spent much time thinking about English as a "universal language." Perhaps from the days of "the sun never sets on the British Empire" ... 😉

Years ago, I worked for a British firm and had the privilege as an "up and comer" to make some international trips. In more than one of them to our "headquarters" in the north of England, we would have representatives from a number of former "colonies." Listening to my associates from England (all of the "local" dialects - Welsh, Irish, Scottish ...), Australian, Canadian, South Africa ... it was amazing to hear them express their thoughts.

We all spoke "English," but I remember thinking ... "Wow! I think I know what you just said, but I never would've used those words to say that ..." 😉 The best part was sitting on the sidelines and watching the Aussies and the Brits "have a go" at each other ...

"I guess when you are a foreigner you can never truly master a language especially if you have never lived in the countries where it is natively spoken :)"

Yes, I'm sure you are right. I had three years each, of classes in school, for German and Spanish. Sadly, if my life depended on it, I would never be able to hold any sort of conversation in either ... I think probably "immersive teaching" is the best, from those to whom I have spoken and feel confident they can actually successfully communicate in another language ...

Е, по-добре избягайте за сега. Надявам се това да ви намери и твоя прави добре!

P.S. Google Translate ... 😉

Hahahaha, it's so nice of you to try to write in Bulgarian :) Google Translate is terrible though :D Lol

We all spoke "English," but I remember thinking ... "Wow! I think I know what you just said, but I never would've used those words to say that ..."

Hahaha, I know what you are talking about. I feel the same way every time I hear Macedonians speaking :D

My sister graduated from New Castle University in the UK. I visited her a couple of times and I had a great struggle understanding the locals. Every time someone spoke to me I was just blinking for 5 seconds in a desperate attempt to "decode the message" :D

However, I just love British English, especially the one spoken in the London area. It has an incredible melody.

American English has many faces, too :) I like how the people in the South speak - they sound somehow light-hearted and cheered up :)

Europe is very interesting being a host for so many different language groups. There are the Hungarian, the Finnish and the Greek languages which are on their own. There are no other languages similar to any of them. Then there are the wide group of the Slavic languages (Bulgarian included) and the Latin languages.

For instance, to me, Scottish sounds more like German or even French than English.

I know some German like you, but it is so rusty, I wouldn't count on it at all :D

Well @insight-out, I had wondered about that …

”Google Translate is terrible though :D Lol”

… as the thought did cross my mind to say something about having no idea how well my English American words would be translated. Oh well, perhaps we can “file it” under the old “it’s the thought that counts” … 😉

”However, I just love British English, especially the one spoken in the London area. It has an incredible melody.”

Yes, there is amazing diversity in the “English” accents / dialects. Even just traveling around in the various regions of the British Isles … I personally like the Scottish accent the best. They were also, at least to my mind, the friendliest …

”American English has many faces, too :) I like how the people in the South speak - they sound somehow light-hearted and cheered up :)”

Yes, we certainly have our own diversity. In the South, the Cajun accent / dialect in Louisiana really stands out to me. I can barely understand them. Hahaha … 😊

Always nice to “talk” with you @insight-out. Have a great day (evening / night)!

Thank you, @roleerob! Speaking of languages and different countries, I am curious do you know where your ancestors came from? Of course, feel free to skip this question if you feel that it's invading into your privacy :)

Have a great and sunny weekend! (Хубав и слънчев уикенд! (in Bulgarian) I suppose you are going to be in the backyard (as you mentioned in one of your posts) :)

Good morning (here) @insight-out.

"Speaking of languages and different countries, I am curious do you know where your ancestors came from? Of course, feel free to skip this question if you feel that it's invading into your privacy :)"

Yes, well, I do definitely protect my privacy "in here," but I don't mind giving you the general idea. As an American, we are "mutts" (translation: mixed-breed dogs) ... 😉 … so my “pedrigree” (from DNA tests) includes about 50% the various British Isle countries, about 25% western European, of which half is German, and 25% a little bit of lots of others – like Norway, etc.

That said, as I wrote in my introductory post, both my wife and I are about as American as you can get. Both of our most recent “immigrant ancestors” arrived here in the mid 1850s. From Germany (Prussian military officer, in my case). All the rest of our ancestry goes back into 1700s of Colonial America, and many back into the 1600s …

How about you? Have you ever taken these DNA tests, which are now fairly common, at least “over here?”

As far as being in the backyard, our weather is quite volatile. So … Sadly spring has been put back on hold and we are supposed to get some more snow in the next few days … Booo! 😉

Everything is blossoming here :) It's smells fantastic :)

I haven't done a DNA test, although I am really curious and I should definitely consider doing one :) However, my cousin did. It turned out that our grandfather's ancestors lived here for the past 5000 years! It's amazing! We are the locals :D We carry the genes of the people who lived here before even the Slavs and the Ancient Bulgarians arrived in these lands. Just imagine how our bodies and way of life adapted to the area! :)

Very interesting @insight-out ...

"It turned out that our grandfather's ancestors lived here for the past 5000 years! It's amazing! We are the locals :D We carry the genes of the people who lived here before even the Slavs and the Ancient Bulgarians arrived in these lands.'

... as this is consistent with what I imagine is true for many of the people in our world today. Specifically, DNA evidence supporting they are "nationals" in every sense of the word.

As Americans, we have a different DNA "story." The many reasons people "uprooted" from their ancient homelands to come here ... Into the "melting pot" ... As one of them, always interesting to me how that is perceived by others around the world ...

"Everything is blossoming here :) It's smells fantastic :)"

That is exciting. Can't wait for that to be true in our area, as Spring is my favorite. At higher elevations, the weather can be quite volatile. So, Spring one day and back (briefly ...) into Winter the next. We are expecting more snow within the next few days. But ... It will melt quickly then back to Spring ... 😊

It is typically not until mid to late May that we feel "safe" that what is planted will not subsequently be subject to freezing ... 😉