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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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Last week I was on the brink of choosing another service for sending out this RoseBouquet ezine. (I won't repeat the whole saga.) I just need to explain that though I checked out several last week it was only yesterday after some videos about how great systeme.io is that I decided to really TRY to set up there.
(Sigh!) New ventures and decisions often take longer than we first think. They have special steps to take so I can use my own email for sending out my newsletter. That took quite some time.
Then I tried to figure out how to enter my current subscriber list so that we would be all set to go this morning. Well it seemed I had to upload the list as a .csv file - but their system didn't want to recognize my file.
Only this morning did I find how I could enter each email as an individual entry. I've just finished doing that, and am now trying to get this issue quickly written so I can post it in the plain editor and see if it goes out.
If if doesn't - I'll just send it again exactly as I did last week and the week before.
You may have had your own adventures in learning a new - "techy thing" and finding it takes some trials and errors before you have it all figured out. So hopefully you can be patient with me as I go through these early 'learning' steps.
My brother Ernie called this morning. He's been a confirmed Mac guy for years, but he was asking about learning to set up and use a linux system.
I assured him that it is quite possible but the first few times you can expect some learning sessions and there is a danger of giving up too soon.
He asked if it is possible to keep his Mac system and add a linux system. I assured him it is; if the hard drive is big enough. I told him to check out whether it was fussy though. Windows is. It will not allow itself to be installed second - after another system. (Like a white ermine which will NOT move into a nest/hole that some other animal has used before!) But if you install Windows first, and the hard drive has enough space, you can easily install a linux system there as well.
Thinking about that reminded me, that I need to treat this learning curve with systeme.io as if it can be conquered! I just need to persist through this "learning curve."
Moral of the story: Give yourself enough time to learn a new skill or chunk of information. Later you will sound quite confident when someone calls to ask your advice.
Note: Oh-oh! Turns out my sending email is not seen as validated yet. So this is going out the same as last week.
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I received six responses to my question a few weeks ago about whether you had received my RoseBouquet when it seemed they were not going out from the previous DADA Mail System. (I'm sorry, I have not got to answering them individuallyyet... so busy!)
But I was greatly relieved that most of you were getting the RoseBouquet. But most likely, I think, because I sent it again from my sending email, because I knew that Server being down that one week for 3 days, would ensure that no emails got through that week. Two other weeks the emails were going out dreadfully slowly, so I'm not sure even yet that those emails got through.
The one where I asked for feedback did. So I am sure that there are LIVE friends out there who do read this ezine!
Whew! Thank YOU, to each and every one of you!
I don't like to make excuses, but I've been extra busy with sowing my garden last week, and dealing with other issues that came up. I fell behind on several fronts.
There is the mess in this room while I wait for my niece and her husband to come for my sister's desk suite. OH that they would come soon!
Okay, this must happen at your place too, I know.
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This may be way off-topic today, but my sister Elsie told me when I first made a garden here, that I should sow French marigolds - that's the smaller ones.
I've done that on both sides of the side that goes straight through my garden. They are brilliant reds/oranges, and yellows, and they bloom non-stop all summer, She told me a few weeks ago that if I sow them around the edges of the garden, it will keep the rabbits, cats and dogs out of my garden.
Well, I have been aware of such visitors slipping under the neighbours' fence. So now I'm sowing marigolds around the fence borders of my garden and hope to see if that is true.
Also, I save the flower petals in the fall, because the seeds for the next plants are in the one end of each petal. I have jars and cans full of those petals/seeds!! So I'm willing to share if you should want some.
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