The Winter of My Discontent

I am not in a good mood. Let me start with that. We have no cable or internet. It is raining ice and the weatherman says 6-9 inches of snow are coming. Great, really great. I know I am lucky, at least we have power! Cliff hooked up a hot spot with my phone which is allowing me to write this post. I need to bitch about a few things. So sit back - here it comes.

So, there is this thing called Facebook. You may have heard of it. It's all the rage these days. While I do not have my own FB page, my beloved does, and I have been known to lurk around on his page. I also read several FB groups about horses and dogs and even crafts. The thing that gets me about FB is that it is so easy to use - click this if you "like " something, send birthday wishes without ever having to go to the trouble of actually buying a card, you get the idea. With FB it's easy to be a good friend, neighbor or even consumer. This is my story and I am here to tell you FB is NOT your friend. It's too easy. Sunday night I was looking through my photos on my iPad and decided to post my Fox Hunter pillows photo on one of my FB groups , Fox Hunters on FB. I posted the picture and wrote, "What do you think of these?" Well holy smokes within 12 hours I had almost 300 "likes" and 50 comments! Several of the comments stated that they loved the pillows and would like to buy them. Huh? Really? Ever the entrepreneur, I decided to open an ETSY shop. Everyone always says I should sell these pillows and here on FB folks actually said they would pay for them- RIGHT? I listed the pillows on ETSY, gave my shop a name-ValleyPillows - and went to bed dreaming of all of the orders that would be pouring in. Daylight comes and I jump out of bed (well - crawl,I'm stiff in the morning) and run (walk fast) to the computer, log into my ETSY shop to see how many orders I have. That would be ZERO! Hey FB people you said you wanted them and here they are!! Why would you say one thing and do another? Because it's too easy, that's why. It's so easy to click this or like that, but there is a disconnect between the keyboard and real life. This makes me sad. I may take a long break from Face Book. Thanks for letting me rant. On another note I have made some beautiful pillows and I am planning on taking them to the local equestrian consignment shop if I don't get any orders.

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