If you put a plain wooden stake in the ground, then so be it. If you color the marker and then put it in the ground, it’s possible that the marker, this stake in the ground that you have added, will be seen by others. They may even hold you accountable to what happens even if it is something that is after the fact. If you have a blog post series called Thursday Seeds and a Thursday rolls around and you didn’t post, they notice. Will they come to you about it? If they are a good friend they do! Maybe there is a really good reason. Or it slipped…