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Slight Detour blogger Marianne Love celebrates 12th blogiversary

Marianne Love is shown with hubby Bill and two of the family border collies during an outing (Courtesy photo)
Marianne Love is shown with hubby Bill and two of the family border collies during an outing (Courtesy photo)

Blogging isn't as easy as it looks. I almost gave up several times during my first year of blogging, which started on Feb. 16, 2004. But Sis/Simple Mind encouraged me to keep going. About 8 months into my blogging adventure, things began to click. I found my groove. We'll celebrate my 13th blogiversary as your blogmaster sometime in mid-February at the Fort Ground Grill. Why am I telling you this? Today is the 12th blogiversary of superb Bonner County blogger Marianne Love/Slight Detour. She has written almost daily posts since her start. Today, Marianne comments:

Thanks to my longtime friend, Sue Haynes, I just realized that today is "Happy Anniversary Day" for "Slight Detour. Twelve years of posting almost every day.  A little crazy! As I wrote to Sue, that's a lot of "blah, blah, blah" on a "blob," as they used to call it back in those days. It's been a fun run and continues to be. Thanks to all who tune in and especially to those who've tuned in since the very beginning.  I appreciate your support of this daily enterprise. Now on to the post launching year No. 13 ...

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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