Less is more & Why can't I see everyone's Blog updates?

This past March, our community (several counties) had farms host a Tour 'D Farm day where you select the region you would like to visit and go to the local farms where they showed you what they were up to, how they do it, etc.

We elected first, to go to Black Hog Farm to see their operation as well as to hear Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms speak. On our way to the next farm we stopped at a local produce stand and bought a whole bunch of stuff including brussel sprouts on the stalk ($1 a stalk - they were $3 if you bought them off the stalk).

My husband cut the brussels off the stalk cooked them in butter & baked them with cheese (yes, we can make any vegetable as fattening as fried chicken). He then decided to go stick the stalk it in the ground in the driveway planter. It looked wilted after a few days but didn't actually die.

Today, as we were loading the truck for our regular weekend visit to the Country House I glanced over at the bed and this is what I saw:

It's the stalk that he just pushed into the bed 3 months ago and it has new brussels growing on it!

How is it that I so very carefully plant seed, pot, re-pot and then put something in the ground to have it grow beautifully and then have it die or get eaten by bugs? And all he has to do is just stick a stalk in the ground and it grows?

Oh well, I guess he has the green thumb in the family. Although, I have a pineapple plant that seems to have taken root from the same method. We'll see if it produces anything.

I guess doing less is actually better some times.

On another note .... Can anyone tell me why I see updates on some of my new friends blogs in my blog list but don't see others. For instance, I see that Stephen or kymber updated but don't see that  Sandy, Dani or 1st Man updated theirs. What am I doing wrong?