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One Thousand. A pretty large number for a gal who lives along a winding road that is, in fact cut off. It is a number that I never imagined accumulating when, on a Saturday afternoon in October of 2009, I sat down, turned on the computer, and thought “I think I’ll write a blog”. I had no idea how to begin, or where I was going. It took me quite a few posts to figure out how to add an image, then a photo, and, joy supreme, when I finally figured out how to download music. For someone technically challenged, it was, well, it was a challenge, indeed.
Slowly, I found you and you found me – and here I sit on my one thousandth blog! Wow! Yikes! Shazaam! OMG! etc., etc., etc.
To each of you who take the time to stop by and visit here on the Cutoff, one thousand thanks and thousands more. You have enriched my life, become my friends, and have followed me along this road called life.
Now, a challenge; can you think of a title to a book, a movie, a song, whatever you choose that has 1,000 in it?
Here’s a song that Tom remembered.
Congratulations of your 1000th blog, thank you for entertaining us, and the teacher in you, teaching us new things along the way, its a good ride, keep up the great writing and I’ll be following you all the way….
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Thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words, Sharon. You have been my faithful friend in this from the “get go”, and I appreciate it more than I can say. You’re the best.
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Congratulations, Penny! I’ve so enjoyed our friendship here, and traveling this wave together…
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I’ve enjoyed our friendship as well, Teresa, and your introduction to so many wonderful poets along with your own wonderful words. Traveling this wave – yes, indeed. I like that thought.
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First of all, congratulations. I know I have read them all, because I went back and read the ones I missed early on. What an accomplishment!!! That is a big bunch of writing and all of it enjoyable. Well done!
The only thing I can think of with 1000 in it is Man of 1,000 Faces. It is the biographical movie about Lon Chaney.
On a rainy night when I was in church camp we sang “1000 bottles of pop on the Wall.” I know, it is supposed to be 100 not 1000, but it was rainy and we were stuck inside. And, we had to sing about pop instead of beer. It was a Baptist camp after all. LOL
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Dear Janet, thank you – and for going back and reading all those early ones.
That sounds like an interesting movie. I’ll be on the lookout for it. Wondering if it ever airs on Turner Classic.
You would be the one to convert the beer into pop (tee hee) and make the rainy night shorter by raising the number of bottles to 1,000. I love it, Janet. Thank you for sharing that.
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years:What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller.
Congratulations, Penny. I feel honored to have been here.
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Oh, Andra, that sounds like a book I would enjoy reading. It is sounding vaguely familiar. Did you mention it before?
Thank you. You’ve a few hundred more under your belt. I’ll try to catch up to you.
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Penny, what an amazing achievement: 1000 posts and 1000 examples of your creativity, thoughtfulness and adventures both imaginative and actual. Congratulations, and may there be many more posts. I am so glad I found you!
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I’m so glad we found each other, Juliet. You’ve enriched my life beyond imagination and taught me the essence and importance of, among many other things, ritual. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Congratulations Penny, that is an amazing achievement. I know I am always delighted when I see you have posted, and I look forward to reading your words, seeing your images and watching and listening to your carefully selected videos…so to think of the amount of pleasure you have caused, for all your followers, a thousand times……well, words fail me. I’m glad I found you…and I am pretty sure that we will meet some time, as whenever my next trip to Wisconsin happens…….it will include a detour to find you ! Jx
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The path to our home and its door will be open to you any time, Janice, as well as open arms.
Thank for such generous words across the great pond that separates us.I appreciate them – and you – and I’m grateful that we have found each other as well.
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Congratulations! That’s quite an achievement. I can only echo what others have said about your beautiful writing and always interesting blog.
The only one I can add to your list is, I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson. It’s on my tbr pile, I have not yet read it.
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Thank you so much, Cath. You are kind.
While not yet on my pile, this book is on my list, along with quite a few more I’ve gleaned from your blog. I’m so glad you mentioned it here.
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Congratulations on one thousand posts and on such a great blog with so many followers. I am very proud of you! This is amazing! I can’t think of a thousand, but does the album “Ten Thousand Days” by Bebo Norman count as it at least says thousand?
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Aw, you are so sweet, Katy. Thank you. I couldn’t believe it when I realized I’d written so much. Gadzooks! Yes, the Bebo Norman counts (and your dad will be pleased to see it mentioned, I”m sure).
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What an achievement and one to be proud of! A hearty congratulation to you.
Reading your blog has been an education in many ways—about your culture, your love of books, your delicious recipes, your love of family, your friendships, the appreciation of yours for all creatures big and small, and your love of Christmas. Simply put I am a better person for knowing and respecting you from afar. Celebrate the day!!!
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I’m blushing from afar – and no, it is not the heat it is your very kind words. A very sincere thank you, Marilyn. I’m always so happy when I see your comments and relish those things we share in common across the miles that divide us.
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My favourite.
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Perfect! I’ve turned up the volume and played this over and over, dancing around the room like a whirling dervish, Kate. Thank you.
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Congratulations, Penny. A thousand is a lot; but a thousand of your posts have been a constant delight. I chimed in at Walden Pond. I wonder what number post that was?
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Penny! One Thousand! That’s an amazing accomplishment, my friend. And I really do relate to the “figuring it all out” in the beginning. So I can sense what a well-deserved pride you must be feeling. Great job. I love your blog, but more than the blog itself, you’ve shared YOU, and I’m so glad to have met you. You are my friend across the way, one of the more generous bloggers out there. Penny, and I hope you find the time to stay with it–it’s an undertaking, that’s for certain.
I like the Cristina Perri song, “A Thousand Years” and I’ll share the way the Piano Guys “do it.” Hugs! Debra
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I’m still figuring it out, Debra. It has been great fun being able to do this thing called blogging. Thank you so very much.
Blogging has given me a greater appreciation for those who write daily columns for a living – those still left in the newspaper business, that is. I admire all the research you do getting your blog written. How much I’ve learned about Californian history. Makes me want to delve a little deeper into this Illinois soil.
Oh how I enjoyed the Piano Guys and A Thousand Years. JUST what I needed to start out my day here, and what a fabulous setting. I’m breathing lighter, Debra.
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Oh Sadako. I cried when i read that book in primary school. Congratulations on the 1000th post!
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It is such a tender book for youngsters, isn’t it? I teared up a bit reading it as an adult.
Thank you. I’m so pleased that you have joined us here on the Cutoff. I’ve spent a bit of time at your blog and know I will enjoy your perspectives on so many books and other things. Keep on blogging. You have so much to offer and I’m sure your audience will grow.
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Definitely. However i really think for not only myself, but my fellow classmates, it gave us an understanding that we may not have had.
Thank you! That means a lot. Currently my husband and i are working on starting a blog together about our farming and food ventures. It’s all very exciting, isn’t it? This blogging world!
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1000 posts in less than 4 years – that’s a truly amazing achievement in itself, Penny. What’s even more amazing is how wonderfully varied, entertaining, thought-provoking, touching and downright human those posts have been. I’m so glad our paths intersected across the ether about 2 years into your blogging journey. My life has been enriched by your friendship.
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Thank you, Perpetua. Your words are uplifting – you made my day. I am glad, as well, that our paths crossed and that I have gotten to know a little bit about you and your little corner (or corners, with your three houses) of the world. It really is grand, isn’t it?
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I am a thousand times glad that I found your blog somehow … and a thousand times glad that I have a little time today to catch up on some posts I missed because I got so far behind traveling and breaking my computer and stuff like that. Congratulations. Your blog is a joy.
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I’m so glad we found each others’ blogs as well, Sallie – one thousand times!
Oh dear. Not a good thing when our computers break. Isn’t it amazing how much we’ve grown to rely on them being there for us?
Thank you so much, Sallie.
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Oh, Penny, I almost missed this celebration. I can’t think of a ‘thousand’ anything except to wish you a thousand thanks and a thousand dazzling days to come on the cutoff. Your posts are a wonder to behold…so kind, positive, and inspiring. Isn’t is amazing that a ‘little’ idea – “I think I’ll write a blog” – can blossom into such a ‘big’ accomplishment. Well done, my dear!
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I appreciate you kind words, Belle, and I thank you a thousand times over.
It is amazing, indeed. Five, maybe six years ago, I didn’t even know what a blog was. Such an unattractive word for so much attraction to good writing and connecting all over the globe. Thank you, Belle.
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I loved Sadako and so did my students. Wow, I hadn’t realized how many likes we have in common. I adore Tasha Tudor and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Two heroines of mine, as you can tell. A thrill in my life was the snowy afternoon I met Tasha Tudor at the Addams Family Farm in Vermont. Not as many people know who Tasha Tudor is here in the midwest. I’m always happy to know of a kindred spirit, such as you, who knows her work. Thanks so much for going back and reading more here. You made my day.
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