"ruh-roe if you read the first edition of the Doctrine's TToT post... don't throw it out! (that bad-boy's gonna go all upside biplane in the marketplace)

 Ten Things of Regretful Thankful Saturday-the-almost-13th Edition!

Don't tell anyone* but we got the linkz link wrong for this week. 

Mistakes were made. We've accepted everyone's thoughts and prayers and are ready for a fresh start!

This is the Blogger Edition**

So, lest we wake the Spirit of Lizzi Past, lets get right down to a list everyone here can easily understand¹

1) the Wakefield Doctrine

2) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.  Six Pick of the week:  ...[a Café Six]  (the) the Wakefield Doctrine

3) the Unicorn Challenge   Read this one!

4) the internet (without which, surely something like a bloghop would, at the very least, take a lot longer.... ("Honey? Mimi has written a Comment, should I tell the typesetter to get out his bag of lead slugs so you try the She-typeset-He-typeset?)

5) Speaking of Mimi, we totally want to include the entire Board of Hostinae in our TToT this week. This for reasons that will be assigned a number (Hey, gratitude blog writing-istically speaking, we were born at night but we weren't born last night.)

6) the Board: Mimi, Denise, Dyanne, Lisa and Kristi

7) This week in particular, we are grateful for their patience and such. A little trouble with the linking code. That, notwithstanding, we will repeat our Special Offer: So you want to Host a Bloghop? You totally can! Just fill out the Questionnaire and send it in! Think of the difference it will make at your next party!

8) So, you're at a party. It's getting on into the evening, (Try to remember back to a time in your life before 'Look at the Time' was a social anchor, as opposed to, "Hey Baby/Man, the night is young.^{Grat 9}

9) as opposed to the person writing and/or reading this entry

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* we're referring to the Board of Hostinae., of course

** as in, 'anything!?!? you're sure now... this is a person, who when Sunday Night'd for a assignment to: Write a Review of a Movie (in Creative Lit class) made up the movie, then wrote a Review (oh,, the humanity

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Please Bear with us (??!@# Bears?!?!?!... ) no, ha ha, no bears. Just adjusting to a bi-format TToT

This is the Wakefield Doctrine's contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

(You'll find a blogger version of this week's TToT over at the Group in the Facebook and, of course on blogger.com.)

Wait, disregard that previous sentence. We are here, in fact, on behalf of the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. (May Lizzi be Praised).

Suspect we need to get all bifurcated on our weekly submissions, at least in terms of author specific Grats

(ed. Maybe next week?)

1) Phyllis ---↓ (not Phyllis...rather your photophobic (and some might add, Unreliable) Narrator*

2) Una --------------------------------------↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine.  * Yeah, lets run with this asterix: there are at present Five (5) Co-hostinae We will, for purposes that will become obvious as we type (god-willing), be supplanting of Items on this list as we lurch towards Redemption and the Publish button.** 

4) the end of Summer¹

5) the comprehensiveness and implicit sophistication of a Grat Bloghop including the concept of HypoGratuity (see Grat 6 below for reference and/or further explication)

6) our resident expert Mimi will be happy to explain, in a manner that, while possibly less of the smart-alec, juvenile approach, i.e. when you get a flat tire but the person who stops without prompting is really: nice/hot/cool/did-we-mention-hot?, than we we are capable of... maintaining, seeing as she does an appreciation of the larger, less self-centered view of life and such

7) the Unicorn Challenge.  the 'corn Pick of the Week. ** Not for nothin' but we are, in fact, painfully aware of the limits of the Writing Style (intoned with a total lack of sarcasm) oft referred to as Stream-of-Consciousness (SOC) We do request any suggestions, advice, admonitions and 'wth??!' be shared with all Hostettes (Grat 8)

8) the Six Sentence Story. 'Hey! Ya gotta read this 'un  Co-hosts: Kristi, Dyanne, Lisa, Denise and Mimi

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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(Think: Rick's Café Americain with a chalkboard Menu...instead of Nazis... hackers) Hey! Leave us blogs alone

 Something a little different this week.

oh, wait!

Welcome to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop!

so, yeah, I guess that makes our founder, Lizzi R. , Rick Blaine.

(I got dibs on Sam!)

Anyway, the thing this week is we heard over at the FB from a TToT alum, Patti Thomas. She told us that, her blog having been hacked, she doesn't come round all that much. Adding that she does miss the old days here at the TToT.

Hearing this, it was only natural that we thought the following two things: 

1. we were grateful to hear from someone from the early days
2. we had a mashup of Pink Floyd lyrics barge into our head*
3. knowing the Board of Hostinae are watching, thought to ourselfs: lets make some lemonade!

First things following is our List of Grats for the last week of September:

1) My co-hostinae: Mimi, Lisa, Kristi. Dyanne and Denise²

2) ² the aforementioned Board of Hostinae

3) the Facebook Group of the TToT

4) Paul D Brads for keeping the doors open (on the FB) of the Bloppy Bloggers

5) and speaking of the Bloggers of Blastonia (on the FB) we encountered an alumnae of this blog: See Grat #6**

6) Patti Thomas  (we trust she won't mind the link back to her FB page.)

7) So, given we have two Grats open. We'd like to offer them to Miz Thomas, if'n she is moved to offer some Grats. (kinda like doing a whole standalone TToT post, but different.

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9)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*ok. the floyd:

** hey, when it comes to working the system, grat blog writing-istically speaking... well, this isn't our first human-farm animal wrestling match, ya know?

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Pre-Retruitment Post. Open Auditions for Co-host Positions (Must have healthy Spelcheck)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine's contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Now entering it's twenty-third year of contiguous publication, the TToT seeks new Hosts and Hostinae.

You read that right! (correctly? accurately? consistently? nah, that can't be right) There are soon to be Openings on the Bored... Board of Facilitators. A little backstory...

Our Founderette, Lizzi Ah, decided, for reasons not understood, to have Ten Co-hosts of the bloghop. (Perhaps she felt, being global in reach, ten would be an effective number of people. We mean, serially, all the way  from... but that's not important now. There were ten of us in the beginning.)

So, we're opening up the TToT  phone/telegraph/electron-sluice lines up and asking for suggestions and/or recommendations/nominations/explanations for people to become Co-Hostina/ae of this here bloghop here.

...more to come

For the Doctrine, our list:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the history, (including, but not limited to, false, implanted memories), of our tenure as the Co-Host (recorded in internet archives category: Gratitude Blogs as the Term that defied Reason.)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.  pick of the Week:  'Getting Restless'. by Chris Hall

6) the Unicorn Challenge. 'corn ear of the bunch:  'Black and White Thinking'  by Sally

7) [hypograt]  the probable end of Summer. while benign in outward appearance, Autumn is surely the 'Put your Pencils down' of the year's weather.

8) the whole concept of 'hypograts (we mean, seriously, can you even wonder why every grat blog doesn't include the concept, (and therefore basis of legitimate Grat Items) of Hypo-gratuity? Must be that their hosts are, like pretty much rogers or timid clarks. (Advanced(ish) musing. If you are still wondering, go ahead and ask in the Comments below.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

Ten Things of Thankful [*bonk-bonk*] Is this thing on?

 As most of you know, this bloghop was created by Lizzi back in, like 1983. But the gathering of active blog writers were to appear in 2013(is)

For any arithmephiles out there, that is close to twenty five (or, maybe 11) years ago.

Since that time we've met many people who come to read, post and otherwise spend time at a blog that has Gratitude as the theme.

So starting this week we are going to engage in an exercise that combines the best of blog-writing and projectile metaphor.

Being Friday already, we wanted to get this post published. It is (as of Friday the 13th in Sept 2024 at 8:08 am) only partially complete.

Please check in as the day progresses.

Grat list beginning:

1) the opportunity to participate as the host* of this here bloghop here

2) * grateful to introduce a few ....err fringe concepts in the Grat Game, i.e. Hypo-grats more on this later

3) my co-hostinae

4) Lisa (who I owe a couple of Free Grats! more later)

5) T.A. Woods who has been in touch (from the TToT Facebook page) and will be doing a 'Remote Grat' from another platform. More on this as we figure out how to actually execute this ambition

6) the kind of tomato I trust Jane and George Jetson would find in their refrigerator (ain't it symetrical?)

7)...ok, ok. we're back! For Lisa: i) Modern Technology for it's ease and low cost in making available fora on a scale most writers (and would-be writers) never before witnessed and ii) the access to wider and wider audiences for the product of writers (and would-be writers) just a mouse-click away  

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10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Hey! A couple of changes to this here blogger blog here.

 Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

*Note from your new Ruler and Guardian and Sayer of all sorts of silly/interesting things.*

We are interested in any input/feedback/this-is-what-we-like-about-this-blogspot blog. Serially. Will, for the present copy our normal TToT post of the week here.

Will totally be happy to discover (or be told) about things that you Gratitoniens/Gratitonia do that would further the reach of this thing of Lizzi's

There is a change here at the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A change of personal. Our current host Dyanne has done her time and is due some richly deserved R&R from html-wrangling the weekly publication. As we all know, Time is the ultimate HR manager and even in the virtual (and some might argue, timeless) world of the blogosphere, change is the one true constant.

We invite all participants, past and present to join us in expressing our appreciation for her efforts on behalf of the Grat-blog-that-Lizzi-created.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Dyanne. Grateful for her work as the most recent hostinae of this here Grat-blog here. Seeing how nothing says 'thank you' better than old home movies, if'n we had any we'd link them up. Since we don't have none of them, click here and you will see what is purportedly our out-going Host's first TToT appearance. (Thumbnails at the bottom of the post. Number 16 with a bullet.)

5) the digital age and land of easily-accessed and horrendously misconstrued thoughts, intentions and self-improvement.

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop  Six Pick! : 'Part 26: Navigating a Debris Field'. by Misky

8) the Unicorn Challenge Read this! 'Unicorn Promptly' by ceayr

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*yeah, we're very much into the application of astrixeses to cover our more... imginative use of language

It's No Sweat!

Hey, hi, forgot to post the link yesterday!

I'm watching the campers across the lake enthusiastically playing what appears to be soccer. All I know is it requires a great deal of running and shouting in full sun with a heat index of 98 degrees.

I'm thankful I am sitting on my screened porch with the ceiling fan on, a cold Diet Dr Pepper in my Ruth Bader Ginsberg insulated cup, and that no one can make me play an outdoor sport (or any sport, really). Look how easily I knocked out FIVE thankfuls in one sentence! You can do it, too! 

The Ten Things of Thankful hop is live. 

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