Ok. It's November 1 and that means it's time for 30 Days!
Without further ado: the series this year is 30 Days of Five Things. A different list every day. Of five things.
A sampling: Five Things an Honest Farmwife Admits. Five Things I've Learned as an Ag Journalist. Five Things Our Farm Boy Said. Five Things I Like on My Desk. Five Farm Blogs I Love. Five Things You Need to Know at the Grocery Story. Five Biggest Misleading Labels. Five Things to Tell Your Friends About GMOs. The list just goes on, and on. In increments of five. Just wait. I predict the lists will get punchier as the month goes on.
And so, here is Day One: 30 Days: Five Things About Five Things.

1. I may skip Sundays. Maybe the occasional Saturday.
2. I'm writing a book. Thus, number 1. I must cut myself a break.
3. Sometimes these will be funny. Sometimes poignant. Sometimes serious. Sometimes silly. Sometimes useful. Likely confessional.
4. I have felt wedded to the exacting nature of 30 Days in the past and have never missed a day (see here, here and here) and I am a perfectionist who likes neat and orderly lines and I had a hard time typing number 1. That's why it was number 1. I had to get it out of the way.
5. I really hope you'll read along, and send me "Five Things" ideas if you have them. And especially read my blogging friends, too. There are a whole group of us blogging along with our own 30 Days series. They rock and their links are below!
Five Things: The Series
- Day 1: Five Things About Five Things
- Day 2: Five Things I Loved About Growing Up on a Farm
- Day 3: Five Things Our Farm Boy Said
- Day 4: Five Things an Honest Farmwife Admits
- Day 5: Five Things I'm Reading Now
- Day 6: Five Things I've Learned as an Ag Journalist
- Day 7: Five Tips for Better Photographs
- Day 8: Five Things I Didn't Know When I Married a Farmer
- Day 9: Five Things I Like on My Desk
- Day 11: Five Farm Blogs I Love
- Day 12: Five Things I've Learned About Grief
- Day 13: Five Misleading Food Labels
- Day 14: Five Things to Love About 4-H
- Day 15: Five Things About Jenna
- Day 16: Five Ways to Jazz Up a Field Lunch
- Day 18: Five Places I'm Glad I've Been
- Day 19: Five Things Parents Do in the Back of 4-H Meetings
- Day 20: Five Things Farmers Said
- Day 21: Five Chapters
- Day 22: Five Things We've Learned from our Mothers-In-Law
- Day 24: Five Favorite Verses from the Bible
- Day 25: Five Things Farmers Need to Know about Consumers
- Day 26: Five Things about GMOs
- Day 27: Five Things I Want My Kids to Know Before They Leave My House
- Day 28: Five Things for Which I Am Thankful
- Day 29: Five Things to Get a Farmer for Christmas
- Day 30: Five Favorite Farm Photos
30 Days Bloggers
- Confessions of a Farm Wife: 30 Days, By the Numbers
- Janice Person: 30 Days of Giving Thanks
- Beyer Beware: 30 Days of #farmsmatter
- Pinke Post: 30 Days of Women in Agriculture
- Homestead Hill Farm: 30 Days of Views from the Hill
- Thoughts on Life: 30 Days of Ranch Life Memories
- farmgirldays: 30 Days of Farm Related DIY Projects
- Snapshots of a Kansas Farm: 30 Snapshots of a Kansas Farm
- Life on a Real California Dairy Farm: 30 Days of Thankful
- Morning Joy Farm: 30 Days of Family Agriculture
- Minnesota Farmer: 30 Days: After the Harvest
- From My Front Porch: 30 Days of Live.Laugh.Farm.
- Rural Route 2: 30 Days of Farm Girl Memories
- Tales of a Kansas Farm Mom: 30 Days of Blogging
- The Field Position: 30 Days of Family, Food & Fun
- Sounds Like Home to Me: 30 Days of Randomness with a Pig Nutrition Grad Student
- Carolyn Cares: 30 Days of Thanksgiving
- Kelly McCormick Photography: 30 Days of Simply Being
- Wag'n Tales: 30 Days of Thinking
- Ag Tech Talk: 30 Days of Ag Tech
- Life of a Future Farmer: 30 Days of Life Through the Eyes of a Future Farmer
- Anna-Lisa Smile: 30 Days of Life in Rural Nevada
- Pannill's Gate Farm: 30 Days of Vivacious Redheads
- Oskee 97: 30 Days: All in the Name of Good Fun
- PVF Posts: 30 Days to a Sale
- Willow Lea Stock Farm: 30 Days of Life on our Northern Illinois Farm
- My Cows and Pigs: 30 Days of Cows
- Dark Creek Farm: 30 Days on Dark Creek Farm