Touille's Mardi Gras costume
Originally uploaded by MBK.
I'm finding old photos of Touille now that she is gone. This one was from an old roll of film that I never even got developed until last week. It's got to be from the year 2000 or before.
Today I am trying to check out a lot of blogs participating in Blogathon [edited out link because it leads somewhere else now] but it's not easy. For some reason a lot of the blogs crash the browser on my admittedly antique computer. So then I have to reboot.
When I first posted about the blogathon on MB's Blogasm, there were almost 400 bloggers listed as being ready to participate. The blogathon started at 8 AM my local time, and I was especially trying to check out my friend SJ on her blog [edited out dead link] The Write Coast, because I am one of her sponsors. She is blogging for Puppies Behind Bars.
I saw SJ's first post and then... nothing. Though I have never met SJ in person, I feel that I know a lot about her through her various blogs and emails, and it seemed so unlike her to just quit after her first post. Finally I checked the Blogathon site's list of bloggers and luckily the link to her emergency blog had been added, so I was able to see [EDIT: now dead link] a wonderful post about Touille.
I'm proud of SJ for setting up an emergency blog and am so moved by the Touille post, and I've enjoyed her mix of haiku, rants, photos, and the "I AM" game.
It seems that several people had to drop out today, or just forgot this momentous day. I will not call their names here (I've visited some of their blogs and seen that they are not participating) but the total dollar amount of the pledges is still going UP, even though the number of bloggers has gone down from a high of I think 394 yesterday morning.
At this writing:
Number of blogs: 329
Total pledges: 86,154.45
Besides SJ, here are a few of the other bloggers who are definitely keeping up with things [EDIT: in 2019 all of these blogs are gone so I've removed all the links]:
Pictures From My World, blogging for the World Wildlife Fund with nice photos of all kinds of animals.
Maldrobe Warfunctions, writing 48 sonnets in 24 hours for Doctors Without Borders.
Woolgathering - ramblings of a woman who really ought to know better, blogging for the RSPCA, with a few contests going and inviting us to share photos of pets.
How Animals Save Us Every Day, blogging live from (and for) the Glendale Humane Society with photos of cute doggies and kitties.
Waiting for the other shoe to drop..., blogging for Best Friends Animal Society, telling interesting little stories.
