~Framboise Manor~: leibster award nominations

Friday, August 2, 2013

leibster award nominations

woohoo! now i get to nominate my fave blogs for a leibster award! the rules follow below:

HOW TO ACCEPT THE AWARD: The Liebster Blog Award is a way to recognize blogs who have less than 200 followers. Liebster is a German word that means beloved and valued. Here are the rules for accepting the award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you and include a link back to their blog.

2. List 11 random facts about yourself.

3. Answer the 11 questions given to you.

4. Create 11 questions for the bloggers you nominate.

5. Choose 11 bloggers with 200 or fewer followers to nominate and include links to their blogs.

6. Go to each blogger's page and let them know you have nominated them.
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allrighty then, in no particular order, here are my nominations:

SciFiChick over at Bacon and Eggs

Sweet Sandy over at Oklahoma Transient

Jane from Rational Preparedness

Michele from Mystic Mud

Linda from Practical Parsimony

Sue from The Little Acre that Could

JUGM from Tales from the Clothesline

Jamie from My Adventures in Self-Reliance

Jen from the Double Nickel Farm

Dani from Eco-Footprint: South Africa

Wendy from Little House in the Big Wood
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an honourable mention goes out to everyone on our blogroll! if you aren't listed above, i'm sorry but the rules say only 11 blogs; otherwise you would all be listed! and i know that all of the blogs i listed are female ---- but i just can't see Harry Flashman, Duke, Stephen, Pioneer Preppy, MDR or Senior getting all hyped up and playing - bahahahahah!

so now onto my questions:

1. what do you like best about blogging?

2. what is your favourite time of year and why?

3. what do you want to be when you grow up? (we are all still kids at heart!)

4. what is your favourite animal and why?

5. if you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

6. it's a lazy, rainy sunday - what are you going to do for the day?

7. what is the most exciting project you have planned for the rest of the year, or next year?

8. what is your simplest pleasure?

9. what's the best meal you have ever had, either at home, at friends' or family's houses, or at a restaurant?

10. are you a cat or dog person?

11. what do you like most about yourself?

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i think these questions will help us all get to know each other a little better! i hope that you enjoy them!

17 comments:

Humble wifeAugust 2, 2013 at 2:35 PM
Awww thank you for mentioning me. I am a reader of all the blogs you shared although I rarely if ever comment. I appreciate all your answers that you shared about you and hope to soon respond to your questions my friend!!

xoxox
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LindaAugust 2, 2013 at 2:47 PM
OMG! Okey dokey...will start after today because I am swamped. Thanks.
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Harry FlashmanAugust 2, 2013 at 5:20 PM
Your right. This is definitely an event for the Ladies. But I enjoy reading them.

;-)
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Modern Day RedneckAugust 2, 2013 at 5:22 PM
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Sandy LivesayAugust 2, 2013 at 7:38 PM
Sweet Kymber,

I sent you an e-mail.

My blog has be Award Free for a while now.
Thank you for the nomination, you're too kind.
Sending hugs and love your way.
Your Friend,
Sandy
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JaneofVirginiaAugust 3, 2013 at 12:53 AM
Thanks for placing me in such wonderful company !

Fondly,
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DaniAugust 3, 2013 at 1:03 AM
kymber - Thank you so much for the compliment you have paid me. I am honoured.

However, I have been given the Liebster award twice before, and feel greedy in accepting it a third time.

Please, my friend, could I ask you to redirect this amazing compliment to someone who has not had it bestowed on them yet?

Bless you. And Thank You once again :)
Dani
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WendyAugust 3, 2013 at 9:00 AM
Thanks, kymber. I appreciate the sentiment.
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Jacked Up Glock MomAugust 6, 2013 at 2:41 PM
Thanks Kymber! Sorry I did not log on sooner to see the post. Just been busy. Will get to the questions soon.
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kymber here and talking about jambaloney.

i've always called him my angel. my rock. my best half. the best part of what i have always wanted to become.

he has a soul as big as the biggest mountain, he is strong, he is in incredible physical condition, he is 51 and yet most people think he is under 40. he is humble and modest, charming, gorgeous and will help anyone with anything at anytime. he never grumbles and only every now and again complains or is a tiny bit cranky (nothing that a hug can't fix!). he can cut both sides out of 70 tires in minutes, build raised beds from scrap wood that he drags out of the forest, weedwhack 800ft of our road down to the river, and haul more wheelbarrows of dirt, mulch, rocks and seaweed than is probably medically-advised. he's learned how to braid, make bread and no one makes better rice - not even the chinese. he supports my every, crazy endevour. he went 44 years without a driver's license and got his license after being trained by my crazily-wonderful french canadian friend in 2 weeks. she never stopped talking the whole time. in french.

he has biked everywhere his entire life, at one job he biked 24km EACH WAY. that's to and from! 24km to work AND 24km from work! oh and just accidentally has an honours degree in philosophy.

i believe that he is Our Lord's most beautiful and perfect creation. but i might be biased. he can very accurately shoot a ben pearson cougar re-curve from both the left and right. and his aim is dead on.

he is bow-legged and only 5'7", but has the most incredible eyes. and a tiny mole on his upper lip. he writes the most romantic "insta-poems". he tells me he loves me several times a day. he calls me "babe" and "honey". and he means it.
he loves hot sauce and spicey things like cayenne and banana peppers, he buys (or now picks) me flowers, he left a lucrative, high-paying IT job and his family to follow me here to this remote little island. he builds me shelves and washes all of our laundry with me by hand.

oh and he was baptized Anglican. and was an alter boy. sheesh. somehow, through my intervention, i am turning him into a pagan-christian-fundamentalist-confuscian. look, even i can't figure that out!

the name jambaloney is a nickname that i gave him over 10 years ago. he still uses it. he can be reached at "jambaloney@gmail.com". he loves comments or emails. and he loves me.

if i were given the opportunity to wish one thing for the world - i would wish that every woman on the planet had a jambaloney. i know that i could save the world this way. i have friends who have asked me to clone him. i am trying. believe me, i am trying. one day i will perfect the science involved, and when that happens, i promise all of you a jambaloney.

i love him more than...breathing, lobster, boiled dinner, fresh bread out of the oven, bugging out, singing back up for Madonna (ok...i made that one up!), fresh sheets on the bed, a glass of red wine after a long day, sunflower seeds, lavender, growing my own potatoes, T.S. Eliot, dancing, my babies (who are really just cranky old cats!) and the Bible.

i love him more than i love Framboise Manor. and i really love Framboise Manor.

About kymber

(this pic might seem odd. trust me, it's not. 20 yrs ago kymber went shopping with a girlfriend from the military and bought this dress. then she hooked up with that girlfriend recently. they caught up through email and one day kymberz friend mentioned that specific dress. kymber said she still had it (kymber still has her prom gown for crying out loud!). the friend did not believe it. so we had to take a pic of kymber wearing the 20yr old dress for her friend. kymber always likes to add accessories...and well, we had the bunny ears laying around. ya know, cuz everyone always has pink bunny ears laying around. ok, that's it...i am out of here! jambaloney)

what can i say about kymber?? A LOT!! most of it will have to wait for blog entries ‘cuz i just don’t have enough space here to do her justice…

so i’ll have to do my best… first and foremost, kymber is my partner and i will love her forever. she is the best partner anyone could ever have, i am one lucky guy!! she is 46, she is sweet as can be, smart as a whip, super cute, exceptionally feminine, strong as an ox, honest, kind, empathetic, wise, an amazing dancer, a master wit in speaking and writing….i could go on..i will!

at 5’ 1’’ she packs a wallop – a true force of nature - she is a master gardener and chef and spent 10 years in the Canadian Military – she has done 2 tours of Alert (the north bloody-cold pole). she is a UN-certified Korean linguist and spoils our 2 cats rotten. she also spent 12yrs working in the federal government, as a communications analyst at SolGen (now PSEPC) and Fintrac. she loves nature in the true sense of the phrase..the wildflowers, insects and birds here at framboise manor keep her entranced and captivated for hours.

anyone who is her friend knows that she will stop at nothing to help and heal, dedication and loyalty are an integral part of who she is and she is dead serious about anything she puts her mind to. yet she maintains the most delicate touch and a smile on her face always, never afraid to live and love no matter where and when.

she is the most genuine human being i have ever met! and she has encouraged me to embark on the most crazy and exciting adventure i could imagine… thank you babe - i sooo love you!!!

(and she can be reached at kymberzmail@gmail.com)