So… did I miss anything?

97 thoughts on “So… did I miss anything?”

1. Welcome back to Blogland, Janis! Missed you!

   Deb

   1. It’s nice to be back, Deb. Now, if only I can get this blog thing worked out… it seems that there is a bigger issue than just missing my blog roll. Yours seems to be the only blog post notice that I get in my email inbox.

2. Welcome back, Janis, you’ll catch up in no time 😀

   1. Thanks, Terri! I’m looking forward to reconnecting.

3. Welcome back Janis … seriously, I would need a year off to declutter and organize!

   1. Haha! I’ve only started.

4. Welcome back. Can’t wait to hear about your travels.

   1. I look forward to sharing tales of our adventures. I don’t blog while I travel… but I do take a lot of notes.

5. Welcome home, Janis. You have been GREATLY missed!

   1. Thank you, Donna. It’s good to be back and connecting again.

6. I was literally thinking of you just yesterday. Even thought about sending an email to check on you because I forgot you were taking a break. You didn’t miss anything from me, because I’ve also been traveling and have yet to blog about that or much of anything lately. Nice to have you back. The reason I was thinking about you is because we just book tickets to spend the 4th in one of my home towns in California (not San Diego though.) Looking forward to hearing about your travels!

   1. Too bad you won’t be in town, it would be great to see you. I hope you share stories of your travels too!

7. You’re back! Great!

   1. Thank you! It’s good to be back.

8. Welcome back! Sounds like you had some adventures- I look forward to reading about them 🙂

   1. It was a long time to be gone, which was great… but it’s nice to be home too.

9. Kia Ora, Janis and wonderful to once again see you on my blog reader.

   1. Thank you, Suzanne!

10. Welcome back, Janis.

    1. Thanks, Dan. I *may* have one or two… or a few door pictures that I took while away.

       1. Yay!

       2. Funny you should say that Janis as I have my doors post ready for tomorrow — ThrowbackThursday meets Thursday Doors!

11. Good to see you back! You were following 60+ blogs!? No wonder you needed a break!

    1. Crazy, huh? I’m definitely going to get that number down to a reasonable amount.

12. Welcome back, Janis. I look forward to hearing about your travels.

    1. Thank you, Natalie. I look forward to sharing some pictures and observations.

13. Nice to hear from you again.

    1. Thanks, it’s nice to be back at it again.

14. Nice to see you again, Janis. Sounds like excellent reasons to take a break. Looking forward to your tales!

    1. Breaks are good now and then. Coming back is good too 🙂

15. Welcome back!

    1. Thank you!

16. Welcome back, Janis. It’s great to have you back! 🙂

    1. Thank you, Marsha! I hope you had a great spring.

       1. I has been lovely. We traveled between Scottsdale and Prescott, since Prescott has a later spring than the valley. It’s beautiful here now. Again welcome back to the Cyberworld. 🙂

17. Yay! You’re back!!! So, can I ask you how successful you were in your decluttering efforts? My intentions are good and I am making progress, but it seems like a slow go with everything else going on in our lives. I hope your travels were as enjoyable and refreshing as you hoped they would be!

    1. I swear that someone is following along behind me as I get rid of things and sneaking more stuff in. In addition, one of my focuses was on decluttering my photo file. Well, obviously I added tons more on my travels.

18. It’s always nice to land back home and pick up familiar routines. Decluttering our digital life is something I do regularly and it is surprising how much time we gain. Look forward to reading about your long journey in the coming weeks. Did you miss anything? Other than us probably just some colorful stories and photos with little tidbits of our lives beyond the digital world weaved in!

    1. I promised myself that I would resist the temptation to look up posts that happened while I was gone and here you are tempting me. 🙂

19. Great to hear from you, Janis. I look forward to hearing about your travels! And I’d also like to hear about your decluttering and organizing journey. We’re deep in the process of our tiny home build, and the process is presenting many *opportunities* for figuring out how to best design our space, and what we truly want and need at this time in our lives!

    1. Your journey into the world of tiny homes was a big motivator for me. We won’t be moving anytime soon but, when or if it happens, I want the process to be easier. Better to do a little at a time. I am looking forward to catching up on your progress.

20. Welcome back! I should clean out my “follows” too. Many of my old bloggers friends are no longer active. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Looking forward to your travel stories!

    1. Thank you! I had an old list of blogs that I followed and I didn’t recognize many of them. At least the inactive ones don’t fill up your inbox. 🙂

21. Good to see you!!

    1. It’s good to be seen 🙂

22. Welcome back Janis! Hope you had a wonderful break and look so forward to hearing of your travels.💕

    1. Thank you! It’s nice to take a break now and then.

23. I was just thinking about you yesterday – mostly because my own travel has amped up since March, music ops opened up since January and…I’m leaving for a mother/daughter trip for 5 days with middle daughter tomorrow. Relevant how? I haven’t packed for airline travel since prePandemic and there are tons of changes/tips that you already know about that I thought, ‘If Janis can do it – I can do it!’
    Welcome back!

    1. Haha! I am living proof that it’s possible to travel for multiple weeks with just a carry-on.

       1. And living proof it can be done again! I used to be queen of inflight backpack, ukulele and overhead bin, too. But not sure I could wing it these days! This trip is a reintroduction to all the new-to-me sizes/restrictions etc and each airline has different ones, too! 😦
          And away I go…Wish me luck!

24. I’ve been wondering about you… and here you are. Welcome back.

    1. Hi Ally. It’s good to be back and blogging again.

25. Welcome back! I’m looking forward to hearing about your travels.

    1. I have lots of pictures and notes. It was a great trip so I look forward to sharing snippets.

26. Welcome back! Hope you find a good ‘new balance’ in your blogging life.

    1. Oh, yes! Balance is the key.

27. Glad you’re back. You didn’t miss much from me as my blogging has been extremely sporadic. And I didn’t even intentionally take a break!! I need to get my butt in gear, that’s for sure.

    1. I think that sporadic posting is just fine. It means that you are busy with other areas of your life… and that’s a good thing.

28. I look forward to seeing what you’ve been up to! Welcome back!

    1. Thank you! It’s nice to be blogging again.

29. Welcome back! I look forward to hearing about where you’ve travelled.

    1. Hi Anabel! I have a few tales to tell 🙂

30. Welcome back! Like you I was traveling for part of the time you were away. Unlike you I posted almost daily and uploaded photos almost straight in. We had a fabulous 👌 time in Europe on our bike and barge. I hope you also had an amazing time and I look forward to hearing about it. Hm… I guess you need to declutter your follow list and make decisions about who to follow! Bernie

    1. I love the idea of a bike and barge. It looks like a great way to travel. I may have to break my rule and look at some of your earlier posts. You are right about decluttering my blog list. Oops.

       1. Read the last two called Bike off the Barge and Barge (with Bike). That gives the lay off the land and of course the food one!! OMG — such good food!!

31. Welcome back, Janis! I guess you inadvertently decluttered your blog roll as well. 🙂 Can’t wait to read about your spring travels.

    1. Thank you, Liesbet. Our travels were not as exotic as yours, but they were pretty great. I hope to post about them soon.

32. Happy to see you back and read your thoughts.

    1. It’s good to be back!

33. Welcome back! I can’t wait to read about your travels. As for your blog roll, I’m sorry you lost it, but I do think this could be a chance to “whittle it down” a bit. I’m following lots of blogs that don’t exist any longer, but I can’t seem to find time to “unfollow” them. And I have over 8,000 followers, of which I think maybe 300 (tops) actually read my blog. Cutting back to blogs I actually read and followers who actually read my blog would make a lot of sense!

    1. Although I was initially saddened to see my blog roll disappear, I figure I should take advantage of the situation. I had kept a few inactive blogs on there hoping they’d come back but they are probably gone forever anyway.

34. Good to see you in my Reader feed again!

    What’s new? Let’s see: we got tired of Wisconsin, so moved further east and are now in Pennsylvania. Adopted a one-eyed skunk from a no-kill shelter. Tara found religion and joined a cult. Oh, and I was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers, so we’re kinda kicking ourselves for leaving WI now.

    1. Wow, you’ve been busy… and now you’ll have such a long commute from Penn to the Brewer’s ballpark. Did Tara join the Shiny Happy People?

35. Welcome back! Aren’t breaks wonderful? I hope re-entry goes well for you. – Marty

    1. I seem to remember that you were still on an extended break when I went on mine. Good to see you back also.

36. Welcome back! I’m glad you had a refreshing break.

    1. Thank you!

37. Welcome back. You have not missed much from my blog. I have not posted much since I have been busy doing other things.

    1. “Busy doing other things” is a GREAT excuse not to blog (but I do hope you come back one of these days).

38. Glad to know you have been having a good spring both being productive at home and having fun on the road.

    1. Hi Judy! I look forward to resubscribing to your blog (becuase that’s apparently what I have to do for each blog I want to follow again) and seeing how your garden looks!

39. Spring breaks, no matter our age, can be very beneficial. Neil S.

    1. Yes! And at our age, they don’t usually involve overindulging in things that are bad for us.

40. Welcome back. I didn’t know you could turn off blogs in your feed (other than to simply unfollow everyone). You’ll get it sorted out and on the plus side, you can shed the ones that are no longer serving you. Looking forward to hearing about your travels.

    1. Well, I thought I could do that, but apparently not (at least for as long as I did). I’m just slowly refollowing blogs that “serve me” (bonus points if they comment on this post… which you did… so I’m off to refollow you 🙂 ).

       1. Huzzah! Welcome back to my blog!

41. Hi Janis, Welcome back, it will be nice to read what you have been up to. I still visit often throughout the blogosphere…like you say, I greatly enjoy the connections. I look forward to catching up. xoxo 💕 Erica

    1. Hi Erica! Hopefully one of these days you’ll post again… but I can understand why you might choose not to. I certainly enjoyed my uncrowded email inbox 🙂

       1. Hi Janis, I still get all of the emails, since I did not unfollow anyone 😊Enjoy your Sunday, Funday xo

42. Hi, I happen to chance upon your blog today. Hope to read more about retirement life from you. I’m your fellow retiree from Singapore.

    1. Oh, wow, I’ve never been to Singapore! Welcome to my blog!

43. I guess you and I both took a bit of a travel break. It was great. But trying to catch up is a bitch.

    Can’t wait to hear about your travels.

    1. I’m happy that you had a good time too. Yes, catching up is a challenge (and I’m nowhere near close to being done).

44. Welcome back Janis, as you can see from all your comments, you were definitely missed.

    1. Ahhhh…. I missed everyone too.

45. Good to have you back

    1. Thank you! It’s nice to be home again.

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