I was just asked by a friend as to why I started a blog now, what motivated me, and what do I intend to write.
I have to say my initial exposure to blogs was travel blogs by people visiting places I want to travel. People who wrote about Antarctica, and expedition cruises.
I haven’t been traveling lately, mainly because house renovations got in the way, but we used to travel quite a bit.
I suppose it was somewhere in the Amalfi Coast, while sailing that I really got into cooking, or maybe it was the market in Nice.
But, I also got inspired reading some great articles in Gourmet, before they went away, and then I inherited a Bon Appetit replacement subscription that introduced me to Molly Wizenberg and Orangette. We shared a common bond, sauerkraut at Thanksgiving, since I was born and raised in Baltimore.
So, now retired and really into cooking and growing some of my own food, I decided why not record it? I contributed to a few groups in my earlier years, only to find the posts disappeared when you don’t own them. My own domain, my words, my pictures, here until I decide to get rid of them.
Today I am making sauerkraut from a cabbage left over from the CSA. It will be ready to eat by next Sunday, for my dark days first supper, and our home Thanksgiving. Just us. The relatives get together on Thursday, but we like our own small fresh turkey from a local farm, with leftovers to make soup.
And here I get to record it.
AnnieRie Unplugged 
I love to travel for the inspiration you get at the food markets, restaurants, etc. I love sauerkraut but don’t have it a Thanksgiving as we go to our friends home. I have it several times during our cool weather.
Karen, love your blog, particularly the food.
We have deer running around here, but no turkeys. We do have goats down the road that escape and end up in our meadow sometimes.
And, my neighbor’s roosters, plus the farm across the ridge line has cows, that we hear all the time. Friends visiting comment on the sounds of the country.