Hey there!
Have you had a hard time checking the blog in the last two days? It’s been super wonky on my end and I wasn’t able to write a post this morning. I think the tech guys have fixed the problem though.
If you are here, reading this now, could you do me a favor?
Can you let me know if you’ve had problems checking the blog in the last 36-48 hours? And if so, does everything look as it should now?
The page load time? How’s that? Is it better now?
Thanks for all your help!! I hope you have a great weekend. I’ll be busy picking tomatoes and painting some back to school buoys for the fence.
I can’t believe it’s almost time for the school bus to pass by already. Where has this summer gone?
~ Mavis
P.S. The last box of summer peaches has been delivered. 🙁 I’m going to miss all the gloriously ripe fruit.


Cathy says
Couldn’t read the blog yesterday, but all is well today. Quick load, no lags, etc.
Laura says
Same!
April says
Good morning from smoke-filled Washington. Yes I’ve had trouble the last couple days getting your blog to load. This is the first time it has loaded. It still took a little longer to load than usual, but at least it loaded. That’s a start.
Linda says
Had a bit of a problem yesterday but finally worked out. I don’t know how long it would have taken because I left the site and came back later. Everything seems fine now. Thanks for letting us know because I wondered if it was on my end. I love your site by the way and have followed you since you were in Gig Harbor! Linda
Susan says
Looking good this morning! I got a “can’t connect” error yesterday, but, it’s nice and speedy now.
linda Noss says
Same here
Susan Williams says
I can see you now, but yes, I’ve had issues with the page not loading without closing and reopening it several times. It happened again this morning, but after 1 refresh, it came up. So, from what I’m seeing, it seems to be fixed.
CP says
I only had trouble this morning getting in, not any other day. But I just was able to see your post now.
Nancy says
Yes, you are back!
I have had problems getting to your site recently, so I’m glad that everything is now working!
Ramona says
Your page wouldn’t load the past few days. Came right up this morning.
The bowl of fruit looks so good. Happy painting!
Diane Buckner says
It wouldn’t load up but this time it came right up. And I need my Mavis fix every morning!
Vanessa C says
Yay! There you are! The blog kept timing out before it could load for two days but it seems normal now. Have a great weekend!
Vanessa C says
Yay! There you are! The blog kept timing out before it could load for two days but it seems normal now. Have a great weekend! Wait, I lied – After hitting “Post Comment,” it’s timing out again 🙁
Diana Wright says
The page wouldn’t load this morning. Just worked at 8:57 California time.
Erin says
Hi Mavis! The page load time is still long. It wouldn’t load, so I went to do something else. When I came back, it was loaded. Transitions on the page are still a little slow and ads are popping up in front of the blog, instead of just on the bottom and sides. Hopefully it will work better soon.
Ashley B says
I couldn’t see the page yesterday, it just kept loading. But it seems fine today.
Marie ---NH says
I’ve been having a difficult time with your blog…it takes forever to load up, so I close it out and go back to it several hours later and it usually comes right back up. It was the same this morning, so glad your are working on it!
Joely says
Yesterday it loaded fine. Today up until about 10 minutes ago it would not load and I got a “gateway timed out” message. It is back to normal now.
DebW says
You are back!
It was impossible to get the page to load earlier.
Jan says
Your blog wouldn’t load the past couple days, and it said site not secure. It was fine today.
Jan says
Your blog wouldn’t load the past couple days, and it said site not secure. It was fine today. Now while trying to submit this comment, I get this message: The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.
Additionally, a 504 Gateway Timeout error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request
Debra says
Yes, I too couldn’t load your page. Went and checked out something else on line. Came back and finally loaded. Enjoy your weekend.
Mellie says
The page wouldn’t load yesterday and is still slow today. But it did load.
Noelle says
I was not able to load it this morning but it looks good now!
Eri says
I tried several times this morning with no luck. I left to run errands & tried again just now. The first time this afternoon, around 3:23pm eastern, it gave me a gateway error. I refreshed again & it loaded slowly. I’m using Safari mobile. I primarily view the blog on Feedly, & it appears that the post loaded on Feedly 4 hr ago. It didn’t show up on Feedly yesterday, but that happens any time you’re using a refreshed older post like a recipe so I didn’t think anything of it & was able to view the post directly on your site.
christa says
I couldn’t load the page on my phone at home this morning, a few hours later now at work it came up but a bit slowly…made me realize how much I enjoy starting my weekday mornings with your posts!
Sandy says
I couldn’t get the blog to load yesterday at all. Today at 1:01 pm PST it loaded right up like there was no problem.
Kris says
Hi! I couldn’t get the page to load yesterday or this morning. Now, it is back to normal.
Lynda says
I have had zero problems with getting your blog. Loads just fine. Happy that this is so!
Susan Bane says
I have not had a problem, I usually wait for the email to come to my inbox though :).
Judy Johnson says
Would not load yesterday but worked fine today.
Christy Rose says
I had no problems at all, but maybe the time difference had something to do with it on my end? I am in California and it came right up and loaded as usual both yesterday and today.
Michelle says
I couldn’t follow the link for the zucchini relish yesterday from your emails nor from Google. It works today though. Time to get the ingredients to make the relish now.
Sue S. says
I had no problems yesterday or today, late afternoon, at Cape Cod time.
Rosemary says
The page takes a long time to load. If I close the tab and try again, then the page loads.
Lisa says
I was unable to get your blog webpage to load this morning, but it seems to be coming up fine now.
Lori says
I had trouble with it not loading early this morning, but seems to be okay now. I thought it was in my end.
Barb says
Loads great now! It timed out and wouldn’t load this morning or all day yesterday.
Sue Thompson says
I couldn’t get in yesterday Alabama time.
GrannyB says
The page loaded fine for me, but when I went to Pin the recipe of the zucchini tart, it wouldn’t load. So I went to Pinterest and your page wasn’t loading there either. After reading this, I tried again and it loaded right up. Now I got it saved so we can make it.
Claudia says
Yes, site not loading last day or so but fine Friday afternoon! 🙂
Teresa M says
Yes, I had a problem where it wasn’t loading. Glad to see you’re back!
Janet says
last 2 days was a no load but today it is slower but it did load,
Lisa says
I haven’t had any problems. I load your site from emails. But lately I have been getting an email with your blog and then the next day I get another one for the same post again. (Well it’s good hearing from you twice a day, even if you do repeat yourself!)
Melissa Wyers says
I couldn’t get it to load yesterday but was fine today. Really enjoy the blog and all the flower and yard pics
Beth W. says
Yesterday the layout was weird, long and skinny. Today it loaded as usual, layout
looks usual. Have a great weekend too!
Jenny Young says
I don’t check the blog. I wait until I get a notification from Feedly telling me you’ve added a new post. That came through this afternoon.
Everything loaded except two ads. It loaded quickly but it’s not scrolling smoothly.
Hope this helps.
Annette says
All good. I thought it might be my device with an issue.
Nancy Settel says
Had a hard time yesterday getting it to load but it finally did. Today? Holy Moley it hasn’t loaded all darn day tried about a gazillion times finally got it to load just now at 9pm. This just can’t happen yours is the first thing I read each and every morning. Oh the peaches look devine and boy have we enjoyed peaches from our tiny little farmers market close by. Glad you are all fixed up now.
Pamela Sheppard says
I haven’t had any trouble over the past few days with your blog/site
Karen says
No problems here. Looks great today, as always!
Katy K says
I usually read your posts from the email. That had worked fine all week. I just came to your website now and it seems fine.
Judi Y. says
I didn’t read yesterday’s until today and both loaded fine! I’m so glad your HH is done with radiation. ❤️
Jeanine says
Problems with downloading both Thursday and Friday.
JulieP says
This is the first day I’ve been able to get on the site since about Tuesday. This morning first thing wouldn’t load but now here we are 🙂
Connie Lewis says
No problem yesterday or today here in New Mexico.
Karen says
Took forever to load the past 2 days…..thought issue on my end but ok on other blogs
Debbie says
wouldn”t load Friday, very slow this morning, Saturday in Missouri using Firefox
Charleen says
I was able to get it to load yesterday very slowly (like 2 minutes or so to load) and couldn’t load Thursday. It loaded about just fine this morning. I’m glad you are back. I’m using the Brave browser from Eastern Washington.
lmw says
Works and loads fine now but did not for the last few days
Shirl says
School buses already passing by in South Carolina, school started early August 3rd! Just finished their first long week. Counting the days till fall and cooler weather, we’re still in the 90’s.
Zadu says
I haven’t checked the blog in the last few days but it loaded fine just now when I clicked the link in the email. The email link uses a redirect through Feedblitz and that seemed to take a few seconds to connect me to the actual blog.
Cindy Brick says
Just fine now!
Glad you got it fixed… I (we) have missed you.
Melinda says
Couldn’t get the blog to load yesterday, but it’s working fine today.
Elle says
Was down for a bit as described, but happy to say it works as well as it did before the outage. Welcome back! 😀
Peg says
It worked fine again yesterday (Saturday) after lots of problems loading the previous couple days. But this morning it was very slow again. Maybe just a coincidence.
Susan Wollin says
Yes, the page load time took forever it felt like. Today a little faster, however it took a bit to load. I enjoy your posts thank you for sharing with all of us!
Jan says
Yes, experienced some difficulty, page load time took ages. All well now. Super fast. Reading you in France from the very beginning. You helped me discover square foot gardening! Still a big fan of your posts.
Anne T says
Hello ! I don’t think it’s just you as two or three blogs I follow have been having the same issue. I’m not sure what platform you are all using but maybe the problem lies there ?
Sherry says
Had no problems loading your blog today.
Tracey says
well, there you are!!! glad to know it was just a tech thing.