Friday, February 25, 2011

Best Post of the Week: Week Eighty-Nine


It's time to link in your best post of the week!

The purpose of this column is to make it easier to keep up with each other's blogs, so that even if we don't have time to read all of the Alabama Blogger blogs every day, at least we get the week's highlights.

So, link up, tell us why you linked that post, and let's start reading! And remember - the best way to get new blogging friends is to comment on other people's posts, so be sure to say "hi" to your neighbors when you visit!

p.s. - please feel free to interpret "this week" as loosely as you like!

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Amy's Extraordinary Alabama: Alabama Curiosities by Andy Duncan

By Amy

Alabama Curiosities I discovered the book Alabama Curiosities: Quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff
by Andy Duncan in the school library where I substitute teach. Of course the title caught my interest. I'm a native Alabamian and love this state, but let's face it. We have our fair share of curiosities. As I'm sure other states do as well.


This is the second book Duncan has written about Alabama's Curiosities. You can check out the first here.


Duncan shares his lists of interesting town names in Alabama in the introduction along with a few other state quirks. He then divides the curious aspects of our state into five regions: coastal, east central, southeast, north, and west.


From the Interstate Mullet Toss (and we're not talking about the 80s hairstyle) at the Flora-Bama to the world's largest office chair in Anniston, Alabama Curiosities is filled with the wonderfully quirky and odd things that make our state what it is.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Meet-Up in Two Days!!

If you haven't RSVP'ed yet, do so here or on the original post!

Our February Alabama Bloggers meet-up in Birmingham will be at Dale's Southern Grill in VESTAVIA. They have a private room that can hold up to 50 people so let's fill it and make this a great blogger luncheon!

We'll meet at 11:00 a.m. until 2:00pm Wednesday, Feb. 23rd for some delicious Meat and Three and a huge assortment of other dishes, including incredible desserts. Come late, or leave early-we will be there.

Dale's Southern Grill is located in Vestavia at 700 Montgomery Hwy, right across from the RAVE Theater. You can park in the deck right next door and take the escalator to the Plaza. Dale's is on your left.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Nanci Scarpulla at Almomtv@aol.com .

(Event hashtag, as always, is #AlaBlogMeet.)

Please RSVP below by Feb. 22nd.

Hope to see you there!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Best Post of the Week: Week Eighty-Eight


It's time to link in your best post of the week!

The purpose of this column is to make it easier to keep up with each other's blogs, so that even if we don't have time to read all of the Alabama Blogger blogs every day, at least we get the week's highlights.

So, link up, tell us why you linked that post, and let's start reading! And remember - the best way to get new blogging friends is to comment on other people's posts, so be sure to say "hi" to your neighbors when you visit!

p.s. - please feel free to interpret "this week" as loosely as you like!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

February Meet-Up Reminder!

Our February Meet-Up is only a week away!! If you haven't RSVP'ed yet, do so here or on the original post! You won't regret coming... they're always a great time for visiting and relationship building!! The details are below...

By
Nanci

Our February Alabama Bloggers meet-up in Birmingham will be at Dale's Southern Grill in VESTAVIA. They have a private room that can hold up to 50 people so let's fill it and make this a great blogger luncheon!

We'll meet at 11:00 a.m. until 2:00pm Wednesday, Feb. 23rd for some delicious Meat and Three and a huge assortment of other dishes, including incredible desserts. Come late, or leave early-we will be there.

Dale's Southern Grill is located in Vestavia at 700 Montgomery Hwy, right across from the RAVE Theater. You can park in the deck right next door and take the escalator to the Plaza. Dale's is on your left.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Nanci Scarpulla at Almomtv@aol.com .

(Event hashtag, as always, is #AlaBlogMeet.)

Please RSVP below by Feb. 22nd.

Hope to see you there!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Newly Listed Alabama Bloggers!!

I got a bit behind on getting new blogs on "The List" during the end of my pregnancy, so there are FORTY-FOUR new blogs listed!!

Please go welcome our new friends (especially the ones that live near you!), and check out their blog homes!!

Lucy @ Lucy Inspired (Indian Springs)
Elizabeth@Coupons Make Cents (Point Clear)
Katherine @ Grass Stains (Birmingham)
Rallenac @ Urbane Wonderings (Birmingham)
Lorie @ MeMe Lorie's (Hazel Green)
Birmingham Appraisal Blog (Birmingham)
Mary Kathryn @ The Mathews Family Happenings (Tuscaloosa)
Melanie @Queen of My Universe
Amanda @ Mommy Working for the Weekend (Leeds)
Carl Carter @ Over Coffee Media (Birmingham)
Carol King @ Mocha Bay Sistahhood Cafe
Lynda Swink @ Life On The Farmlet (North Alabama)
kelley blake @ The Eclectic Owl (Huntsville)
Janice @ In this Southern life
Half Baked
Heather St. Clair @ The St. Clair's
Couponing to Disney
Troy Ramsay @ The City of Magic (Birmingham)
James @ The Fairhope Times (Fairhope)
Elena @ Life The Green Way (Birmingham)
Mama Bear @ Bears at Home
Bethany Herrington @ So I Don't Forget... (Birmingham)
Jennifer @ Our Southern Table
Bret Pippen @ Pippen's Place (Birmingham)
Kristen @Southern Web Girl (Birmingham)
Community Foundation (Birmingham)
Mary Albrethsen @ Mary's Rose Cottage
Tina @ The Story of Us (Tuscaloosa)
Emily @ Crunchy(ish) Mama
Jennifer Weldon @ Southern Fried Stretch Marks (Gadsden)
Liesl @ Pretty Helmet
Jen West @ Ordinary to Extraordinary (Birmingham)
Brandy Bates @ B3's Bargains and Books (Birmingham)
Kate Adams @ The Brooklyn Dodger (Birmingham)
Sandra Fikes @ Camera's Eye (Mobile)
Jason Knight
Karen @ The French Flea
Allison @ Sweet (New) Home, Alabama (Mobile)
Brian Schweighardt @ OB's Corner (Florence)
Bo Williams (North Alabama)
Bham Bride (Birmingham)
Susan Schuman @ Our Family Eats
Carrie @ Missing Montana and The 3 Wilsons (Huntsville)

Blogger Spotlight: The Brooklyn Dodger.

I had the privilege of meeting a new Alabama Blogger, Kate Martineau Adams, at our last blogger meet-up. I didn't get to talk to her for very long, but her story and blog focus intrigued me. And, when I had the opportunity to check out her blog, I was hooked!

Kate is a new Alabama transplant, moving here from Brooklyn. She loved living in New York City (after all, it IS a fabulous place) until she had kids. And so, to find a more family-friendly place to raise their family, she and her husband moved here - to Birmingham.

Of course, the culture is unbelievably different, and so her blog, The Brooklyn Dodger, is all about comparing and contrasting the differences of her life in Brooklyn versus in Birmingham.

And you know what the best part is?

She loves it here.

Her blog is a wonderfully fresh look at our city through the eyes of a new resident, and it thrills my heart to see someone so excited to live in our great city!

Her glowing perspective on Birmingham is a needed one in this city, where so many people find so much wrong with it. And, her unique ability to contrast and compare it with life in Brooklyn makes for some fascinating reading!

Check Kate's blog out at The Brooklyn Dodger, and follow her on Twitter at @KateDodger.

Do you know of an Alabama Blog that should be spotlighted? If so, email me at rachel@alabamabloggers.com.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Best Post of the Week: Week Eighty-Seven


It's time to link in your best post of the week!

The purpose of this column is to make it easier to keep up with each other's blogs, so that even if we don't have time to read all of the Alabama Blogger blogs every day, at least we get the week's highlights.

So, link up, tell us why you linked that post, and let's start reading! And remember - the best way to get new blogging friends is to comment on other people's posts, so be sure to say "hi" to your neighbors when you visit!

p.s. - please feel free to interpret "this week" as loosely as you like!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Don't Miss This Blogger Moving Sale of the Century!

We are losing one of our kindest, most amazing Alabama bloggers - Rhoda of Southern Hospitality is moving to Georgia in a couple of months, and will be terribly missed around here!! Rhoda is always one of the people I most look forward to seeing at our meet-ups. She has been a HUGE influence on me (more than she knows!), especially in the graceful and kind way she conducts herself and her blog.

Rhoda's blog is based around her amazing decorating skills, and as such, she has some really great stuff. She is having a moving sale this Friday and Saturday in which is is selling a lot of her wonderful finds. She has pictures of some of the things she is selling, as well as instructions on how to get to the sale, in this post.

If you're a yard sale person or need some great home accessories or furniture, be sure to go visit Rhoda this weekend!!

Friday, February 4, 2011

Best Post of the Week: Week Eighty-Six


It's time to link in your best post of the week!

The purpose of this column is to make it easier to keep up with each other's blogs, so that even if we don't have time to read all of the Alabama Blogger blogs every day, at least we get the week's highlights.

So, link up, tell us why you linked that post, and let's start reading! And remember - the best way to get new blogging friends is to comment on other people's posts, so be sure to say "hi" to your neighbors when you visit!

p.s. - please feel free to interpret "this week" as loosely as you like!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

February Meet-Up!!!

By Nanci

Our February Alabama Bloggers meet-up in Birmingham will be at Dale's Southern Grill in VESTAVIA. They have a private room that can hold up to 50 people so let's fill it and make this a great blogger luncheon!

We'll meet at 11:00 a.m. until 2:00pm Wednesday, Feb. 23rd for some delicious Meat and Three and a huge assortment of other dishes, including incredible desserts. Come late, or leave early-we will be there.

Dale's Southern Grill is located in Vestavia at 700 Montgomery Hwy, right across from the RAVE Theater. You can park in the deck right next door and take the escalator to the Plaza. Dale's is on your left.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Nanci Scarpulla at Almomtv@aol.com .

(Event hashtag, as always, is #AlaBlogMeet.)

Please RSVP below by Feb. 22nd.

Hope to see you there!
If you haven't linked up and introduced yourself yet, be sure to go here to do so!