hi, my name is josie and i'm a bad blogger.

The title says it all.
I've been a bad blogger, and i have millions of excuses and i'm sure you don't care. But I have decided *not* to blog this summer... I will drop in every once and a while to update all my lovly readers. But here is some of my reasoning for not blogging this summer:

-I was cast in the musical Damn Yankees, and even though I got a chorus part, it's going to be alot of work and I'll have rehaersals everyday, and I'm going to be working my butt off working on lines, dancing and songs. Which I'm so excited for and don't mind but it's all very time consuming.

- I don't want to feel guilty about not having anything to write about.

- I have school to do through the summer. I know it stinks, majorly. But I just have a 10 page paper to write, a couple literature analysis' to write, and math to do. Also, teaching my little sister Tabitha to read.

Buuuuut, I will occasionally drop in here! :)




If anyone wants to do some guest posting here on Hillbilly Chronicles email me here: no1joey11@aol.com! I'd love to have people guest posters {is that even a word?!}

So, I'll be back, thank you everyone who follows me, you mean the world to me!

easter.

I've been thinking about it and I'm thinking I'm going to take a little Easter break and be back on
Monday... So, see you all then! :)

The pictures below and above of our pygora {angora and pygmy} goat who just got sheared yesterday... She's so different without her big shaggy coat!

of day 21.... and please, i need your input!

21.A picture of something you wish you could forget

There are many things I can answer this question with...

I could say, the time I completely kneeled in the mud to get a picture of a spider walking on water, and didn't get the picture...

Or the times I've found candy... On the ground, so no free candy..

But seriously, my answer to this question is but I don't exactly have of picture of the thing I want to forget, so I'll just say it...
Seeing my Grandma Cindy's dead body before she was cremated. it was the last time i ever saw her and I often wish I could forget what I saw, but it was her...I miss you soo much Grandma! :'( ♥  I didn't think she looked peaceful, it was almost shocking to see her dead body after seeing her walking away to catch her flight on our trip to CA in 2009 for my Uncle's wedding, and then a month later she's dead. It was awful...

Grandma Cindy *around* 1974

She was beautiful when she was younger, she reminds me alot of Barbra Streisand in "Yentl"... They both had the same haircuts and look so much alike. Which is awesome because Grandma Cindy was a big Barbra Streisand fan, something she has passed onto me... <3





It's finally Spring!!! It was gorgeous and 82* yesterday and today it's 60* and cloudy.. Bleh. But hopefully tomorrow is nice-er... :)

I'm known amongst my friends as someone who has really *weird* dreams... It gets downright freaky at times!! But last night I had a dream that I lived right down the road from Carlotta and we met in person and it was awesome!! It was loverly, *sigh*... {She's one of my all time favorite bloggers}

-Love,
Josie

PS I don't want to be obsessed w/ numbers or stats but recently I've gained followers and then lost a few followers... Is there something I'm doing wrong or is there anything I should change? Do differently? Please let me know! I'm just asking you as followers to let me know how I can change things around here! I'm honestly now worried about having gazillions of followers, I already have 78 lovely followers and I'm happy if you are one of them, but I'm kind of curious of this trend of gaining and then losing followers... So PLEASE let me know your opinion!!!!

Question????

I have a blogger question: *has anyone else had problems commenting*???? I can't comment, like I write my comment and then go to click the "comment" button and it doesn't comment. At. All. I'll go look at the help section, but i was wondering if any of you have had this problem.
Thanks! :)
Josie

A Totall Confession Post

i need to apologize. i need to confess. i'm hoping to get it all out in this post and possibly a picture thrown in as well. this post is inspired by Carlotta who is one of my all time favorite blogger and she's amazing. :)

confession: i have been totally lazy in posting, finding things to post about {i can blame facebook for it} which resulted in not posting at all, which i'd like to apologize for. to the 75 followers i still have: you guys rock!

confession: i need to post more. possibly posting one picture a day and then posting about it. how does that sound?

confession: i love country music. it's a new found love, and i can't say i regret it. the singers {think Reba, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert, i don't have a favorite guy country singer so i just listed my favorite female vocalist} all have amazing strength in their voices and all the songs are catchy and just totally dance-able... whose your favorite singer?

confession: i strongly dislike math tis year...seriously, who's idea was it to mix numbers AND letters????

confession: i'm being lazy/creative {it's all how you look at it} and using lower-case letters in this post...if you haven't already noticed ;)

confession: i often forget i'm only 14 and have my whole life ahead of me and want to do everything all at once. or do something i want to do right now and then remember the fact i'm only 14 and have a whole life ahead of me. is this just me?

confession: i want to learn to figure skate...just learn  the basics and learn how to do those fancy spins *sigh* any skaters out there?

confession: i'm obsessed with bokeh... since my camera {a Nikon Coolpix L100} won't let you adjust aperture, getting a bokeh shot is about 50/50 so i just drool over other images with fantastic bokeh.... what photography technique do you love?

confession: i'm a horrible writer, i rather say things with my pictures. this year i really want to work on that. i've kind of started by written creatively in my journal {i've written in a journal daily for about 4 years now. i'm really proud myself. it's so fun to look back and see what you were doing that day 4, 3, 2, and 1 year ago.} rather than writing just what i did that day, i pick an idea from a bowl i have filled with journaling ideas and do that for that day. i might do that someday for my blog....

i'm all confession-ed out, i feel lot better after i've gotten all this out and shared you with you all! thank you for reading this and my blog...
<3 Josie

Sorry

Hey everyone! I have decided to take a little blogging break for a couple of weeks. I'm needing to catch up on a lot of things and not posting for awhile will help me accomplish that! Also, I've decided not to open a photography blog, at least not now maybe next year. I hope you all understand, but I need take a break for a little while. So, feel free to look at older posts!
Love,
Josie

About the Movie Quote Contest....

Since I've only had 3 guessers {good job guessers!} I've decided to extend the contest until Friday, so come on over and guess {if possible} :)

I've Done It!

Okay, you know how I asked you all if you'd be willing to read a photography blog by me? Well, thanks to the response I got, I made a Project: 365 blog and I named it "Still Memories".

So now that I have created the blog,  the questions is: when should I launch it? I was thinking either on January 1st, right now, or right after Thanksgiving. I'm going to put up a poll so you all can vote on this...So please check it out! :)

I've Been Inspired!

Okay, I've been looking around at different blogs and some of them have separate blogs that they post pictures on daily or try to at least.... Well, all that inspired me to wonder if a daily photography blog would be worth it. And I'm thinking it is but I want to know what you all think! So please let me know if you have one of your own or if you'd like to read something like that! :)

On Cloud Nine

                                                    

Carlotta  over at Pastor's Girl's Ponderings is having a new blog hop named "On Cloud Nine" and I'm joining this week! :) Here's my pictures:

Hillbilly Chronicles' 1st Q and A

Okay, I've seen other blogs do this and turn out great, so.... I've been wanting to do one! How this works is you guys leave me comment w/ a question you'd want to ask me and then I'll do a post answering them all! {NOTE: All inappropriate questions will not be answered, they'll be deleted!} So ask away! :D

A New Blog Button!

I just made a new blog button....all by myself! *happy dance* :) I'm really excited, can't you tell? I put it right under my profile, so feel free to grab it!









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I WaNt To TeLl YoU All...

*Anna and I trying to make a heart...as you can see it didn't work. The heart was supposed to b ehte intro to the post about the new blogs I've found and *heart* :D

Hello! *again* Okay, I found a pretty awesome blog called Giggling Pearl, The Inquisitive Girl and her photography is really good! And the things she take pictures of are the samll little things that so a=often go un-noiticed. It's really rather cool! And her posts are great! You all should at least check it out! And follow her if possible 'cause she only has 10 followers and she deserves way more! So, *please* check it out!

Also I have another "new" blog I've discovered, it's called Michael J Lauckner, and I actually know him in person {his dad is the worship pastor at out church, actually}. He's studying music composition at West Michigan University. And I've heard him play his music {yeah, he writes his own music on the piano!} And he's posted some of his music at his blog and it's great! I'd encourage you to check it out!

             *Peace out!*

OuR DuCkS!

We have recently added to our farm.... we've gotten two white ducks. They look like the Aflac duck. Has any one seen those commercials? "Aflac!" :)

This is the book I've been reading and a Silly Bandz on top of it. :)

Has any one noticed a few changes around my blog? i.e. the awesome Century Gothic font??? Well, the awesome Happilyeverafter7 did this makeover and I love it! Check out her blog Little Somethings.

Well, that's it for now. i'm in a rush right now. I'm getting ready for a friend's mini b-day celebration and I'm not quite ready. So toodles!

27 Followers and 101 posts!!

I have a whooping 27 followers! If you are one of my followers give yourselves a hand!! Thank you sooo much for following! If you follow me, please post a comment and tell me what your blog is if I don't follow you, the lil' follower pitures don't work well w/ my computer.. so if you can do that, THANKS a truck-load! :D