“The RoseBouquet”

Hmm… well, I have got some smaller projects done and off my desk, for which I’m glad. I’m making progress on the Aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs site and I’ve even done some reno work on this Ruthes-SecretRoses.com site.

I have not got to checking STATs on all the sites as I like to do at the beginning of the month for the previous month. When I did that for this site last week I discovered to my chargrin, that I had a bunch of bad links on my sub-domain on prayer, http://intimacy.Ruthes-SecretRoses.com as well as on the site proper, so I went at it, hoping to fix at least a few main pages. Before long I found a couple of hours had passed, but I had updated that whole sub-domain, and most of the other errors too. Another day I got the rest done. That sure feels good, even if it doesn’t seem so big to someone else.

In fact, two afternoons I decided to try to jot down everything that I did during the block of time I usually refer to as my “email time.” I was astonished at how many “little repairs jobs” and more detailed mentoring I squeeze into those afternoons. Once client needed a domain transferred so I initiated that, and started brainstorming with a new client for how we’ll name and present her site. I chatted with a couple of friends on the topics fresh in their minds. I don’t know that these lists would impress anyone else, but they reminded me that I don’t JUST read and answer emails in the afternoon, I get a lot of public relations and work done with/for clients.

I thought I had an idea for an article on the right kind of praise for children, triggered by an article I read in the Reader’s Digest, but on Saturday I went to a birthday party for Arnold Stobbe, our Director at Western Tract Mission. I was so impressed at the things his children and others said about him, that I think I’d like to take you to this birthday party today in my Ruthe’s Roses (inspirational) article. See that below.