Family is nice! Being alone is also nice.

[sholio]

I love my family dearly, and truly enjoy spending time with them; however, after three weeks of travel/visiting/houseguests, I am greatly enjoying having the house to myself again. I dropped off my mom and sister at the train station early this morning, and have had a very relaxing day of writing, working in the garden, and generally enjoying peace and solitude. And now I have a glass of wine, for a mellow evening.

(Although the wildfire smoke has been absolutely miserable today. I posted this to Tumblr earlier, by way of illustrating why it feels like breathing soup out there. Smoke-flavored soup. It did clear out a bit this evening, however.)

I also have a completely frivolous poll. Crossposting polls is a pain because you have to create them in both places, and there's really no point for a silly little poll like this one, but please do feel free to let me know in the LJ comments if you like any of these, or have any suggestions. :) The thing is, I've been posting my garden pictures periodically to Facebook for a few years now, but I think it might be fun to create a garden sideblog on Tumblr so I have a proper place to put them, and if I do that, I need a name for it.

Poll #16794

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

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What should I call my garden blog?

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alaskagarden
5 (22.7%)

alaskagardens
1 (4.5%)

gardening-in-alaska
3 (13.6%)

gardeninginalaska
4 (18.2%)

arcticgarden
11 (50.0%)

farnorthgarden
4 (18.2%)

something else (suggest in comments)
1 (4.5%)

ticky?
6 (27.3%)

Should I allow other people to contribute THEIR garden photos, if they fit the Alaska theme?

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Sure, why not?
13 (59.1%)

No, that is a terrible idea
0 (0.0%)

mmmmmmaybe ...?
9 (40.9%)

ETA: alaskangarden was suggested in the DW comments. I don't know why I didn't think of that one on my own, because I like it best so far! :)

ETA2: Also alaskangardener, which I like as well! Though it's leaning toward the long end of things.

Comments

[sheron]

Is there something like 'alaskan'? Because my gut is saying instead of 'francegarden' you would say 'frenchgarden' so shouldn't it be 'alaskan' or whatever is the correct term?

[sholio]

Oh, that is an excellent point! Too bad you can't edit polls, because I think I like "alaskangarden" better than most of the other options. :D

[sheron]

:D

[genarti]

I like that too!

[vicki_rae]

Putting Alaska first sort of suggests to me it's the finished product of random gardens in Alaska.

Gardening in Alaska sounds more like it's the process and the result? Either way, whatever you call it, sounds really good.

[sholio]

I like it too, except it's so long that it's cumbersome - that's my main problem with it. :P Otherwise I think gardening-in-alaska would be my favorite.

And thank you! I think it will be fun. At the very least it'll give me a fun side project - at least in the summer!

[vicki_rae]

Alaskan garden gets my vote.

[sholio]

Thank you! <3 I do wish you could edit polls, because I didn't even think of that one, but I like it the best so far!

[malnpudl]

Alaskan gardener? Because it's about you and about the process, not just the garden itself? Maybe?

[sholio]

Ooh! I like that one too. :) *adds to list*

[leesa_perrie]

extremegardening or oh-boy-alaska-gets-really-cold-how-do-i-garden-in-winter-here? That last one might not be serious! :D