The RoseBouquet

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RoseBouquet - About and FOR Friends of
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#1119 Vol.26 - Full of Gratitude! - Oct 7, 2025

In The Garden Today:
<*> At My Place: Full of Gratitude!
<*> What's New: About Publishing the RoseBouquet
<*> Tips & Solutions: Something Strange/Funny/Surprising. . .

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At My Place: Full of Gratitude!

Yes, I'm quite full of Gratitude today. After about 2 years of fuss and bother about finding a new platform from which to send out the weekly RoseBouquet - I'm finally back in the Good ol' DadaMail. But a newer version.

Justin, the programmer did a good job, although at first I had a hard time logging in. The first several times yesterday, I had to request a new link to be allowed to create a new password. But it never worked; I had to request another link. I was not used to this, so I emailed Justin to ask and he gave me a new login link. Ah-ha! that was the secret; I was still using the old one.

Tues Oct. 7, 2025

My previous installation of the program I think, was version #9, but now the newest one is #11, so there are some tweaks and improvements.

Once I got in and looked around some, I found that there are a few lines above each form or view that explains in easy English what to do there. Excellent!

I wanted to see if all my subscribers were still listed in the system. Sure enough! Super! He had saved those for me.

Ah, and then I saw there were 299 unconfirmed NEW subscribers. Whoa! But as I went down the list they all looked like some spammer had entered a long list of fake emails. There was only one that I recognized as that of a penpal/friend in China. So I kept that one, and deleted all the rest.

All my past issues are still in the system, or Justin may have saved that part from the old system, and just put them into the new system once he had installed it. How thoughtful!

Yes, I'm full of gratitude today!

P.S. Oh the funny/odd thing about the delays in getting this done were because PayPal has the slow rules for uploading funds to an empty account. I had to wait 3 days for the funds to show up in my account. Then I had to wait another 7 days (why? I don't know?) before I could pay Justin so he could do the work.

It finally was okayed last weekend. But, guess what, PayPal ignored the money I had uploaded and took the payment out of my credit card. Huh? Why? I don't know.

There are more mysteries on the internet than you or I can shake a finger at!!

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What's New: About My "Brand"

You will recall I asked last week what you think might is my Brand or Voice. I got several very touching and encouraging responses from YOU, the subscribers to the RoseBouquet.

But I still have a rather full daily and weekly agenda, and I haven't had time yet to wrap this up.

(Maybe when I get the garden and the front yard all cleaned up for winter, absorbs my 1 hour given to the outside work.) When that is all finished I will be giving that hour to deeper house-cleaning times. In fact, this winter I hope to go through the basement very thoroughly and try to get rid of some things.

My mornings, afternoons and after my "one-hour-yard- work" in the evenings are all blocked out too.

But right now my afternoons focus on getting my sales funnels created and set up - and my BRAND is suppose to be part of that, so it will need to be squeezed into the afternoons.

The woman I referred to last week recommends to tell stories about yourself so that people feel they are getting to know you.

Also, testimonial-type comments from others are better then straight bragging on oneself. So now to write up those pages ever-so-carefully!

I suggest you try this exercise too. It will help you to get to know yourself better, and to see which foot you should put forward first when meeting someone new - in person, or by connecting with them on a website - with something to offer.

P.S. Oh. A big thanks to those who agreed with me last week about AI.

Yes, it is a problem. But God is working on it! He has a terrific plan!

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Something Strange/Funny/Surprising. . .
happened last night. (It all depends on how you see it). When I was struggling to login to DadaMail yesterday, a hint was thrown at me to check with my files in Google. I couldn't see a connection, but clicked the link - obedient person I am - and found myself in loads of info Google has on me. I was asked to correct anything that had changed in my profile. (eg. they had a phone number for me on my cell phone). I no longer have that number so I deleted it. I checked a few other areas to see if they had the real facts on me. As I was about to quit and go back to my evening work, I came across a request I'd forgotten about to download all my photos stored in Google. I gave permission as I'd taken a photo recently of a friend, and couldn't figure out how to get it to my desktop. Next think I know I was in my Gmail address, and they were about to download a file package of 680 GB. Huh? How did that happen? I okayed it, even though it was very close to midnight and I wanted to shut-down. After a while I went to see if it was all downloaded yet. It took some effort to determine that the jumbo file was all on my desktop now. I decided to have a peek before I shut down for the night. Yikes! Hundreds and hundreds of photos, all organized into folders named for the year the photos were taken. I've yet to see them all, but I expect to delete most of them. Still, I had no idea Google had filed so many photos away that I was suppose to have taken. Do you know all that Google knows about you? YOU may want to check on that!

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