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Go to the Archives Index if you wish to check for an older article from 2020. Otherwise, watch for announcements of new e-books that I expect to produce that will share the best of the older issues. At the moment there are 905 issues of the RoseBouquet that was published as blog posts, as an xml file (for Feed Readers), and as an ezine emailed to my subscribers.
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No doubt you are as weary of my reports of not-working email sending situations for the RoseBouquet. - I'm truly sad and sorry for it all.
Thank you for your patience and sticking with me through all this.
Support from Sender just dried up last week; when I login I can't even find the screen/page from where I would send out this ezine/newsletter IF that were ready.
So, after some more prayer I decided to go back to DADA Mail. That is a system that the developer had installed for me on my website back in 2022. It served me fine until last year when the migration of all the sites I look after - to another server messed up the Dada Mail files and I could login, but not paste in a new newsletter. Never-mind getting it sent out in a matter of seconds!
That's when I went hunting for another mailing service - thinking that my site was too unstable. (There was that second migration this year when I asked to have them all moved to a smaller server as it was going to cost me over $1000/yr to stay on the NEW & much larger server that we had migrated to last summer.) That only contributed to the Dada Mail settings mess-up.
However, since Sender was not working out for me I felt that if I could just get Dada Mail restored I'd be in fine shape again.
So I went to the Dada Mail site, and put in a request for a fresh installation, and since they were showing a new version #11 out, I asked for that one. In my request I set out the problems I'd had, and I wanted to go back to a mailing system that had worked well for me in the past.
(Plus I don't see another migration to a different hosting server happening again!)
However, I have not heard back from Justin the developer at Dada Mail. I had hoped he would reply to me yesterday and tell me when he would get to it. But he must be quite back-logged.
So, today, I'm still at mailing each subscriber their issue, one at a time. As Gmail doesn't think my email is suitable for sending out to other Gmail addresses, I will send those out from my own Gmail address. How I hope my Dada Mail will be working again next week - even better than before!
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Have you noticed? There are those yellow or golden leaves on the ground. The big heat-waves are mostly past-tense now. The sun sets a bit earlier in the evenings... . .
More and more clues that the seasons are changing happen all around us.
If you have children, or grandchildren, you know that school has started up for a new "year" also for those in college or university.
In my case, I notice the changes in the garden most. I've carried in a big bucket and a box of pumpkins, squash and tomatoes. I've been popping the cherry tomatoes into my mouth about as fast as they turn red. But the pumpkins and squash are yellowing under the kitchen table and I'm making them wait until I have time to deal with the cutting scooping out seeds, and deciding which ones to put into containers to freeze and which ones to bake up into pies and breads, etc.
I spent the hour after supper for a whole week cleaning up the weeds (many with burrs) in the narrow strip on the east side of my house.
Now I'm thinking, how do I find a roofer willing to let me have the old ashphat shingles from a roof they have just done over for someone?
A few years ago my neighbour/friend, Rita, was having her roof done over, and they had tossed the old shingles into a truck box, but had not come for them yet. I asked Rita if they were taking them to a dump, or could I have them to lay on the path on the west side of my house? She phoned them and was told that I should help myself before they came for the truck. I loaded some up and my cousin Gary showed up to help.
Gary kindly laid them in the path so that the shingles over-lapped just as they do when on a roof.
This has meant the path has a double-layer of shingles, and NO weeds can come up through them! I just need to sweep the path a few times a year to gather up the dead fall leaves.
That's what I want on the east side of the house too! Yes, since I came upon many weeds with burrs when I was cleaning out that space. Burrs are a great problem when they get under clothing and on your skin. Tiny though they be they can make me squeal with pain!
Maybe Gary knows some roofers who would let him pick up a big enough batch of used shingles....! I'll ask him!~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We all seem to have our favourite internet browser - I have discovered they are not all the same.
For a number of years I've liked Chromium best, but it has become frustrating, as it won't play videos - at least not the audio part. So for quite a while I've got my Chromium (Linux version of Chrome) in one window and Windows in another. Whenever I come to a video I have to copy the link from in Chromium and move it to Firefox so I can get to see it.
Last night I tried to find out why Chromium was such a trial, and saw a number of quotes in Google explaining that you had to install extra software to get around that. But that Opera was turning out to be a browser with an amazing array of extra capabilities.
I knew I could get it on my computer, I just had not seen all the new features. So I opened it and found a wonderful array of videos about search-engine-optimization (SEO) and I took time to watch three of them. I now see that I've been missing out on a very versatile browser. It has far more features than either Chromium or Firefox!
I have not fully explored it yet, but feel as if it is a true FIND! It works on any system; Windows, Mac, or Linux.
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