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The Link to Leisure
This is the final wrap-up post to celebrate the last Leisure Link. Today I feature all the bloggers who took the time to link-up for the last time!
And the winner with the most clicks was…
All in a Dad’s Work, with his post “We Hit the Trails.” Eric is a great dad who gives his boys Crash and Bang wonderful leisure experiences and tells about them in hilarious ways. Please check out his blog.
The rest of the Leisure Linkers wrote about Halloween-themed hi-jinks, including recipes, fashion, costumes and leisurely experiences. Please take a moment and visit their blogs.
Thank you to all who supported and participated in The Leisure Link over the past few months!
Elephants on the Brain | The View from the Porch
The Horror Movie In Your Head; Life Redesign 101
The Joy of Outside | Fill Your Own Glass
Questions All Bloggers Need To Ask: The Bottom Line; Marilyns Treats
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones – Marilyns Treats
8 Things To Do Instead Of Eating; The Fab Journey
Bomber Jacket for Casual; Jodie’s Touch of Style
Sugar Skulls and the Day of the Dead – Carol Cassara
Warriors, Wild Goose and an Electrical Fire; Stephgost
Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 3 “What Lurks In The Shadows?” | Hugh’s Views & News
It’s the Great Turnip, Charlie Brown and Other Samhain Traditions | Memoirs of a 21st Century Time
Halloween, Costumes and a Bloody Sock | Steph’s: travel, climbing and the tefl life
Getting’ Our Halloween On | The View from the Porch
Have a Ghoulish Halloween! | Smores & Sundresses
How do you link to your leisure?
Do you let barriers and constraints get in the way of your much needed downtime? Many times we get our hearts set on participating in an activity, only to have our hopes dashed because of lack of money, time, or another barrier. Sometimes the weather affects our leisure plans for being outdoors. Sometimes a day was planned to sit and relax by watching a favorite movie or just reading a book, then the phone rings, or unexpected guests arrive, or you see dust on the TV stand. sigh
Don’t you hate that? Don’t let anyone steal your leisure time! Guard it jealously.
Speaking of links, have you heard of the website StumbleUpon?
It is a content discovery tool tailored to your personal interests. I am still learning about it. I have added a StumbleUpon button at the bottom of my blog posts, so if you utilize StumbleUpon and have an account, please stumble my post. I have been stumbling other bloggers to my list “Blogs I Like.”
Janet Wald of Mostly Blogging, shared this post, “How to Dramatically Increase your Blog Traffic,” focusing on using Stumble Upon and Reddit. These sites can also be used for content curation and StumbleUpon is rather fun.
UPDATE** If you want further information on adding a StumbleUpon button to your WordPress blog, check out Sue Coletta’s post: The Power of StumbleUpon: How to Add Sharing Button to WordPress dot com.
For more information, check out my Pinterest Board Blog and Biz Resources for pinned articles about StumbleUpon.
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So you’re ending your linking party too, Terri. It’s my last Tip Tuesday as well, at least for now.
I need the time for other projects, including visiting more people like you.
I love stumbleupon. I need to follow you there. When you follow someone, it’s easier to “stumble” their posts. The more you stumble others, the more chances you have to get stumbled.
Thank you for stopping by Tip Tuesday!
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It is so hard, Debbie, sometimes, because we want to do so much.I believe the Facebook group, Midlife bloggers association, is starting a stumble upon group. I will follow you! Have a great day!
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I agree with you, we need to guard our leisure time. It’s so rare in our hectic society, and we need to take precautions to ensure we don’t lose it entirely.
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Thanks for the comment, Aimee!
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Leisure begins at the sidewalk outside my front door! But it’s an unpredictable thing. As Bilbo said:“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
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Love that Richard, I hope to see that quote with one of your amazing photos soon!!
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Hi Terri,
I think I had read you were thinking of stopping your Linky Party due to lack of time. Is that what happened? Thank you so very much for linking to me and the mention. I hope all your readers come to our StumbleUpon group. We have many over there stumbling each other’s links.
I’m sorry the linky didn’t work out for you. I shared your post on Twitter.
Janice
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Thank you Janice! Working part-time as a lecturer with 100 students (and blogging) takes a lot more time than I realized. I’ll keep posting about leisure though 🙂
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Farewell Leisure Link! Thanks for the memories!
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Terri, thanks for your work as host of the Leisure Link, it was fun while it lasted and I’ve met some great new blogging friends. Happy Thursday!
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Happy Thursday to you, and thank YOU for your support!
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Thanks for the shout out, Terri! Thanks, also, for hosting Leisure links. It was fun to see how others used their leisure time. We don’t seem to get much of it these days!
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You did a fabulous job with this Terri. I’m impressed.
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Thank you, Janet, how kind of you to say so 🙂
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Thanks for the mention, Terri. One question. Where did you get the StumbleUpon button from? I can’t find it as one of the WordPress sharing buttons.
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Hugh, I got it from google images, and uploaded it WP media library. Here is the link from Sue Coletta’s site on how to do it http://www.suecoletta.com/power-of-stumbleupon-how-to-add-sharing-button-to-wordpress-com/ Scroll down after reading and use the full code. It worked really well. I will stumble your posts, esp your Truth App stories to my list “Writing” or to “Blogs I Like” 🙂
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Thanks so much for the information, Terri. I’ve managed to add the StumbleUpon button 🙂
Thanks for sharing my posts there as well. I really appreciate it.
Have a great day 🙂
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Oh good for you! As I go through my emails of bloggers, I like, comment and stumble (Most of the time). I’m going to learn more about this! Have a wonderful day!
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Hi Hugh,
You have to manually install it and get the image for the button from Google Images. Nice to see you here.
Janice
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He’s all set, I sent him Sue Coletta’s link 🙂
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Thanks Janice. Terri sorted this out for me and I’m now all set up on StumbleUpon 🙂
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