Been voting all along. Her blog is definately a keeper!

Abhaya

Thanks she reminds me so much of myself...wanting it all. I wish i was her age and had all that energy. Please keep voting.

Did it!

jude

Again.

jude

did it again.

Let's keep voting!
It looks like a tight race between Suzanne and that "Lori-yoga girl". LOL
I'd love to see a down-to-earth farmer win for once!! Hee hee.
Deanna

Okay....done.

Yup, I voted...

Once again.

Everyone please keep on voting. There is a couple of other girls that are running a close second. You can also check out Suzanne's video on youtube.

Here is a link that might be useful: Suzanne's video

Once again.

My daily vote is in.

jude

Mine too jude...thank you and thank everyone else that takes time to vote.

Today is another day...please vote as she is behind..

Oh no!!!! So I just voted again.

jude

I've been trying to vote every day....from BOTH my computers!!!
I just sent a request for help to my quilting group!!

I think I'll post on the cooking forum...

Deanna

I know many of you are voting every day but I'm always worried someone will forget and the last time I checked she was in second place. If you post on any other boards, please ask them to vote for suzanne..

Done!

jude

# 12,802 today.

I voted again, #13,081. She's still behind...

Annie

She's still in 3rd place right now!

Please Vote!!! :-)

Deanna

Yup, I voted again, but she's still in 3rd place...

Annie

Voted again this Thanksgiving Day.

jude

Vote #16,849 today.

Thanks everyone. I didn't even think if this was appropriate for the forum. She is into gardening, harvesting and preserving and has a beautiful site dedicated to living her life to the fullest and some how it just seemed to fit here. The voting only counts for 20 percent and the judges have 80% of the say, so she's still in the running ...Keep voting for our fellow Harvester...

She has moved up to second place - first place is 2100 votes ahead of her

I have been voting daily.

I learned of her blog here on Harvest. I immediately liked it and have passed along the link to friends. I've found I can vote once in Explorer and once in Firefox.

Hi - I voted late last night and just watched for a minute as l0 more votes piled ! This is more exciting than our Canadian elections - to me that is!!! Just kidding!!

Thanks to all of you. I know that the others are probably just as deserving but she is so into the things that I love and the life that I appreciate, that I have to do all I can to help her.

I vote most every day but don't always post that I did.

jude

I agree Ruthie. Having read the descriptions of the other top people, I can honestly say I have more in common with Suzanne, and would rather read her blog than any of the others. She is into what I am into, so I would love to see her win.

I also love how all the posters here have rallied behind her. I actually sent out an email asking people to vote for her!

I would like to think that if any of us are in some type of contest, we can count on one another to support each other.

Voted!

jude

Voted again.

jude

I voted again too...actually every day. I wonder why they have such a long voting period...seems a bit unreasonable to me.

I've also been voting every day. I think she's in 2nd place now, up from third?

Annie

Me too, everyday. I'm hooked!

Abhaya

Vote #22,034 today.

I think she's a better *writer* than the others --- than most of the "lifestyle" bloggers I've seen, in fact. The posts may read as breezy, "off the top of my head"-style notes but they're very well crafted, show a high level of professionalism, and are integrated beautifully with the high-quality photos.

To be honest, when I saw ruthie's first post about this blog, I had no interest in going to see it --- another country-life blog, ho-hum, not even really related to the forum topic (though I certainly don't ever object to somewhat off-topic threads --- some ARE of interest to me, and if they're not, I can always just skip them, no big deal).

But at some point I was curious --- I think when ruthie linked to her "thank-you" post --- and I was really impressed with the content, set-up, and professionalism of her website. I admit to having become a convert --- I now go there every day, and vote every day.

I was glad to see that the judges have the final decision in this round, because I think that any impartial panel will likely choose Suzanne even if she's not in first place in the voting.

Thanks for the link, ruthie---I'm enjoying the site a lot.

Suzanne's even inspired me to start cooking with dried beans, which I'd always considered too much hassle. Well, Suzanne and our current bank account have convinced me ....
;-0

Z

I have been enjoying Suzanne's writing too and of course, voting every day. I really liked Mom2wildboys' tip about using two browsers, so now I vote with Firefox and Safari-on two computers!
Here's one of her posts that I found hilarious, and touching. Lea

Here is a link that might be useful: An Ornery Angel Update

Vote #23,784 today.

voted again.

Voted, I think she is in first place.

I voted too, #25352. However Briget from California has 29,000 and some.....

Annie

I have the misfortune to sleep walk and sleep eat. This morning my husband informed me that he caught me sleep eating in the kitchen last night and as he tried to get me back to bed I told him I had to vote first and was quite insistent about it. Of course he didn't know anything about Suzanne and the contest so he was very puzzled but you just can't argue with someone who's in that state. This morning at least I was able to tell him all about it and he's promised to try and get his co-workers to vote today. I guess Suzanne has really been on my mind. I was reading her website last night about the ornery angel with great interest. I have one almost next door to me and I'm thinking I might try her approach!!!!!

wow, Brigette has 47000 votes, how'd she get so many in one day?

She was a couple thousand ahead yesterday and TWENTY THOUSAND ahead today, now how could that happen?

Annie

And what about Lori! Something doesn't smell right, but anyhow, I voted.

jude

Voted, but it seems in vain.

jude

Me too...

Vote #32,950 today.

"She was a couple thousand ahead yesterday and TWENTY THOUSAND ahead today, now how could that happen?

It is possible to vote more than once a day. Once you know how, the process of voting can be automated fairly easily and can crank up the vote count quickly. Perhaps disqualifications are in order?

Also, doesn't vote count represent only 20%? The judges may see these inflated counts for what they are.

Don't give up yet!

Don't think any votes were in vain!

The judges' panel counts more than the votes in this round.

The point of the votes from Suzannes' point of view was to show she had a loyal, consistent group of readers. It looks to me like she's shown that, and since she writes better than the others, if she doesn't get picked, it'll be because of whatever *other* criteria the judges are using (it may be that they are really trying for a very young demographic, or that a lot of their potential customers are in California [where the other two leading contenders live, IIRC], etc.)

Meanwhile, I'm grateful to ruthie for introducing me to a blog I enjoy.

Z