Buckling Down to Business

This part may not excite you much. But since I don't get much feedback from my readers, I'm stuck coming up with topics about what I'm doing. Or going to do!

I trust this afternoon to finish the rebuilding of my novel's website - at long last! In 2020 I had taught myself how to create new templates to convert most of my sites to Responsive design (meaning they can adapt to whatever electronic device is used to visit the sites). I started on my general business website first, bouquetofentrprises.biz. After a few months, I was able to move on to my site about aloe vera and handy herbs. Third, was my website about generosity and how to give to the needy and or missions with discernment. About the same time, just on the Monday evenings I had reserved for the site to sell my brother Tom's diecasts models, and I rebuilt it too.

At the beginning of last year (2021), I started on my genealogy website, agodlyinheritance.com. It is not all that big. It only took me two weeks to finish with the basic webpages, but then I checked out the ebooks I was offering there, and realized that they were terribly out of date. So I halted my rebuilding project to update those books, not realizing that once I plunged into that, I would be tied up for five months! However, I have 4 hefty genealogy and family history ebooks for sale there now, complete with a shopping cart so people can buy them in a smooth and quick transaction.

I left my novel's site, ruthes-secretroses.com to the end, because I knew it was over 1000 pages. I've been adding to it since my novel was published in 2001. There is also a sub-domain (like a mini-site attached to the big one, on how to have intimacy with God). Well, I've set aside some of the old pages to turn into e-books. So, not every single page has been rebuilt, but when I get the sitemap finished this afternoon, I will consider that site rebuilt, and I will see about setting up a shopping cart for the ebooks I'll be selling from this site.

Right now those are just a few ebooks - or booklets. But I expect to be adding and adding to that ebook store like crazy for that is going to be my main business project now - aside from the Diecast Models site to sell Tom's models - my Monday and Tuesday evening's project.

Oh yes, I recently deleted the eaction site which had my Scavenger Hunt on it, but it was not at all productive, since it was set up on a WordPress blog, it was having no end of technical difficulties and I've become so disillusioned with WordPress that I decided to stop fixing it and just delete it.

But I have two other sites I built some years ago for two different friends. The time came when they were ready to retire and give up the sites, so they gave them back to me. I can see potential for them, but I've decided to let them sit on "ice" so to speak, for a while longer, and focus all my attention on selling ebooks and the diecast models until those things take off and don't need me to nurse them along so intently. Still, this may absorb me more and for a longer period than I can see at the moment.

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A Good Remedy for Dry Itchy Skin Spots

Last night, in bed, but not asleep, because I was rubbing my right arm where I'd had a Voxx patch and the sticky residue was making my skin there somewhat itchy. At the same time I was scratching an urgent itch on my lower left leg, and - suddenly some spots on my scalp at the back of my head were begging to be scratched too! I wondered what was bringing this all on....

When suddenly I recalled a Voxx webinar in which someone asked what to do if the gooey part under the patch made the skin itchy. At first there was no answer, then someone in the chat column typed in this answer: "Try rubbing some coconut oil on it."

Hmm??? Immediately I remembered that I had a big jar of coconut oil on my kitchen table, as I use it sometimes instead of butter, or for putting in the skillet when ready to brown something. In a moment I threw off my blankets, and padded off to the kitchen.

There I turned on the light and just applied some coconut oil with my fingertips on the arm, and my lower left leg (where I had nearly scatched through the skin), and then even on my back scalp, rubbing the oil into the roots of my hair.

I went back to bed, and in a few minutes was sound asleep.

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