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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.
Your best move, if you are afraid of forgetting to come back here every week, just subscribe to the RoseBouquet, and it will come to you by email. Sure. Why not? It's Free and painless!
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At last the RoseBouquet has a new home! It is moving in this very morning. I worked the last few weeks to meet the required settings for the domain for this sending email, and finally I wrote to support. Over the weekend I got some very polite and kindly worded emails explaining that I had to do the domain verification differently. It was not coming through.
Then Sunday I got another email saying that my domain was just not "live" or authenticating as if it were there.
It is definitely there when I go online to see a webpage. Then the support person pointed out that too much time had passed so the authentication had failed. That was why the sending email was not passing either.
I sighed and gave up but was too busy most of the weekend to make a decision. Then... Sunday afternoon, when I was trying to have a nap I got to mulling it over while lying very still in the recliner, hoping for sleep. Gradually, it came to me that I had fussed and tried again and again, for many weeks, and maybe it was time to stop struggling there, and to go find a new place from which to send out the RoseBouquet.
So today (Labor Day) after I came in from my weeding hour in the garden I decided to sit down and find a new email or a newsletter sending service. I know there are quite a few and I've tried a few and found them not quite right.
So I did a search and near the end liked what I read about one called Sender. I had not seen that one before. I went to explore their site and decided that yes, this one should do. It had many good features and it even had a video course to teach how to use a mailing list for promoting various business ventures. Also, I'd have several options for styles of my ezines or newsletters.
I had no problem setting up an account but when I wanted to watch the training videos, my browser Chromium stayed mute; it would not play the narration part. (It hasn't played any videos for several weeks!) I switched the link to a tab in Windows, but there it kept wanting me to login over and over again.
Again I went to search for why my Chromium browser does not play the audio part of a video and I find no controls to adjust the settings for sound.
I tried another browser, Opera. It could play sounds, but if I transferred the Sender link to that browser, I could not login to Sender to hear that training video.
It is nearly midnight, and I'm too tired to struggle with this any more. But it seemed that a head-start writing this issue would give me more margin for setting it up in a new launch site, and reduce the tension.
I'll save a detailed review of how Sender works until another time. It does allow one to start with a free account until one has 2,500 subscribers. Photos of the people who work in that company make it seem like a great, friendly place!
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It always makes me smile when I think of how many people think they must get away somewhere for fun and rest this last big weekend of the summer - at least in North America.
Dad always said, that it was called Labour Day so we should be working that day. Since our schools were closed until the following day, he thought it was the perfect day to have all of us digging up the potatoes or gathering in as many of the vegetables as were ripe and ready.
When I lived in London, Ontario, there was a Labour Day once ...perhaps twice, when I would pick up some single friends, even some teen-agers from our Pioneer Girls Club and we'd go to a beach on a lake nearby to sun ourselves, and since I didn't swim I'd sit in the shallow water for a while and splash the water around me.
I'm pretty sure that each time I would be telling my friends that if I were back home I knew I'd be working in the family garden, gathering potatoes, picking the last of the raspberries, and checking for ripe tomatoes.
To this day I find myself smiling as I'd hear my parents both insisting that it was called Labour Day, so that's what it was intended for. "Let's get to to work out there!"
I did consider starting a harvest in my garden now; - I ended up weeding earnestly around the rain barrel and the rhubarb plant. I plan to clean out that space between my house and the neighbour's, of the weeds with thistles and burrs! It may take all rest of this week!
Cleaning up the garden for the end of summer will have to happen after that. (Oh, you should see how golden the squash and pumpkins are getting!)
By the way, how did YOU celebrate Labour Day yesterday? Did you work, or did you have a truly relaxed holiday?.
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If you have never dealt with burrs before, try a search online. Those who have past experience consider them a nightmare of troubles!
A controlled burn is a top desire, but close to the house or where your pets go, you only get worse problems. Best move is to get to recognize the plants in the spring and pull or kill them at that stage. If you wait until fall, (even now!) they will have born sheer thousands of burrs, and they are hard to destroy.
I did get some on my runners and lower pant legs a few weeks ago, but now they are out of control. I'll use Dad's thick leather gloves, and tools, but then I may have to spray the grounds with Kill-X or other poisons!
Any good working advice would be appreciated!!
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