My life is not a Pinterest board.
Last night as I re-arranged bacon-wrapped dates on a platter oh-so-carefully so that I could snap a blog picture AND pin it to my Recipe and Food Pinterest Board, I thought has my life really come to this? Was I really passing off toothpicked appetizers as supper so I could re-test a recipe?Apparently so.
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| Bacon wrapped dates |
I was slow to jump on the Pinterest bandwagon. A virtual bulletin board, what? But now I rearrange thirty-nine skillfully crafted boards in my sleep. Now I understand Pinterest drives blog pageviews and buying decisions more than any other media with over one million visitors per day…See, I’m even spouting off Pinterest figures like an infomercial…(I’m smart like that because I watched two webinars about it yesterday…)
The thing is, Pinterest doesn’t always portray real life, not mine anyway. My food isn’t always pin-able. My garden isn’t always pin-worthy, especially at the end of another Texas summer.
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| pitiful |
Today I’m pinning real pins. Being transparent is all the rage now, right?
Last April when life was full of promise and the nurseries were crammed with spring flowers and veggies, I eagerly planted a variety of lettuces and radishes in my cute little red wagon and promptly pinned pics to my Garden Board. We would have a bounty of fresh produce to last us to fall.
Yeah, right.
I did harvest lettuce for three or four salads until an overnight flood flattened the plants and a scorching hot day vaporized what remained into dust.
Here’s the wagon today…
How about my kitchen?Today it is home tour ready. Yesterday, not so much.
Don’t even get me started on the third floor of our house. On Monday,we had a flood caused by a clogged AC line. I could pin soggy carpet or a wavy, saturated section of drywall. But the best (worst) thing in that space is the huge pee stain I discovered near the air conditioner. So far no one has taken responsibility for this stain. I think it should be pinned, don’t you?
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| a river of pee… |
And how about these cracks running along every wall in our old house? Pinnable? Yesindeedy.
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| I think there may be some cobwebs mixed in too. |
I could go on and on and on, but I won’t. Tomorrow I’ll be back to pinning beautiful food and thriving flowers. Today I’m being real.
talya
Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.
Musical Pairing:
Bon Jovi – It’s My Life
In my head, my house will “one day, soon” be pinnable.
I’ve been saying this since 1994.
Ha. All you need is a vignette for a picture:))
Love it! Thanks for being real and bringing me back to reality now and again! 🙂
Thanks! We all need a dose of realism occasionally, right?
Thanks for saying this, Talya. I was starting to get complex looking at all that pretty food and those beautiful and orderly homes! 😉
You are very welcome! Thanks for sharing my post:))
Loved it. My gardenias resemble those bushes! Some days cracks in the walls are considered signs of character of a fine old home. Other days, not so much! Yours is beautiful. Hope the tour goes well!
Thank you Dorothy!
You have inspired me to finally jump on the pinning bandwagon. I just started today and I feel so stupid. LOL Looking forward to finding all kinds of cool stuff and sharing stuff.
Yay! I’ll follow you:))
thanks for being “un-perfect” for a day! BTW what was that soiling that beautiful bacon?
Nothing like watching your own vegetables grow. Love lettuce.
Love this so much. I think we need more reality on Pinterest and our blogs and other social media. Life is messy and I don’t live in a museum.
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