My Dog is Chelsea

You know someone decidedly isn’t famous when they need to announce that they are. But, nonetheless, I am having a moment of almost-semi-kinda-sorta famous-ish-ness! And: that’s thanks to you all!
That is to say—my carrot story won the culinate.com blogging contest! YEE-HAW!!!!!!!!! Observe the current state of the Culinate homepage:

Here’s a close-up:

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I have kept a little garden for the past couple of years, but I’ve always a) planted starts b) sewn my seeds directly into the ground once the last frost was over or c) a combination of a + b. This year, I decided to get my herbs, tomatoes and peppers going indoors and avoid [...]

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This cracked me up. It’s a screenshot of Portland Mayor Sam Adams’ Twitter feed. For those of you not familiar with Twitter, read from the bottom up for maximum hilarity:

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No, I’m not running for president in 2012 (can’t—I wasn’t born in this country). I’m in a blogging contest on culinate.com!
It’s easy: go to the voting page and select “Laura.” You won’t need to hit submit or anything—it logs your response automatically. And, even better, you don’t need to create a member log-in to vote.
So, [...]

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One of the things I do with my free time is run the quarterly newsletter for the neighborhood association. For instance, tonight I spent an hour doling out assignments to writers, contacting local business owners to sell advertising to them, creating invoices, editing content, etc. I will likely need to spend at least an hour [...]

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