“The RoseBouquet”

I still have my peace, and in fact, am enjoying my revised schedule so that I now take time for things I’d set aside for many months. Yesterday I took a look at listing a site on directories, and worked on my ‘about me’ page for the aloe vera site. Got that finished but ran into a hitch with the links.

I also reclaimed some time right after lunch for renovating my huge Ruthe-SecretRoses.com site. Goodness, I started to overhaul it year before last and am just about done now with the resources section. However, I realize that I’ve learned several new things since I began that project (there’s over 600 pages), so I should really begin again as soon I’m done this work-through. Besides that, I’m learning tricks from my SBI site that I’d like to apply to this one.

One of the men I work with on the ministry site, http://manna-publications.org.uk wanted to learn how to update a certain page on their site himself, so last week Thursday evening he phoned me as he got out of bed in the morning, and as I was about to shut down the computer to go to bed, (due to a seven time-zones difference). I spent two hours tutoring him on how to do certain things for himself. For someone who told me two years ago that he was technically challenged and couldn’t handle anything as complicated as ftp, he did very well, and was quite pleased with himself. He phoned again on Saturday afternoon, and I finished off with a 40 minute lesson on some HTML codes. Of course, he took notes the whole time, but when he was done and reviewed what he knew he was quite a happy camper.

There is one page of French on that site, and as I’ve never had a lesson in that language, I’m quite happy to let him fuss over the accent marks and which way they should slant.

A special blessing on you if you are a mother! May this Sunday be especially wonderful for you.

I’ve shared stories about my Mom several years to commemorate Mother’s Day, so this time, I’ll pick a very unusual profile of a grandmother from my novel. Maybe you’ll want to read the book! Woohoo!