http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com About and FOR friends of Ruthe's Secret Roses Tue, 06 May 2008 17:18:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today is May 6th - Gra'ma Kroeker is 112 today; I wonder if they celebrate birthdays in Heaven? I remember May 6th for another reason. Every spring I would be impatient to get the garden done in April already, and Mom would hold me back by saying, "Wait until Gra'ma's birthday. ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/05/06/gardening-snowflakes-courage/ 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. ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/05/06/virtual-tutoring-by-l-o-n-g-distance/ They say a messy desk is a sign of a busy and productive mind, but that's hard to explain to those who don't have such a mind. Last week I had a growing sense that I should organize my desk - seriously. So that was my main agenda item on ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/05/06/organizing-a-messy-desk/ (a character in Ruthe's Secret Roses) You've met her granddaughters, Cathy and Muriel O'Brien in a previous Closeup, and I don't want to spoil the surprises in the novel if you have not read the story yet, but I think I can dare to tell you a bit about her past, ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/05/06/granny-kate-obrien-2/ Time for a bit about Snowflake again. She is becoming a cat of sharp contrasts. Snowflake is often frisky, racing from one favourite window view to the other at lightening speed as if scared by something. In fact, sometimes she takes some corners too fast, and whimpers as she accidentally skids ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/04/29/stay-outa-my-bed/ Thanks to a reminder from Robin, (South Africa) last week, I was able to upload all ten of my aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com pages much faster the next day. There's still more tweaking to do. Then another 20 pages, and I can monetize it and turn this into a profitable little web ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/04/29/at-peace-over-both-options/ The other day I was listening online (in the background) to an interview with Marnie Pehrson of ideamarketers.com (she has 19 sites altogether!) and she was explaining the value of writing articles to post online in various places, and how it can greatly increase your publicity and image as ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/04/29/write-articles-for-no-cost-promotion/ I want to write more articles to promote my sites and products, but how do I make this an integral part of my life? Good intentions won't get the work done. Come follow me as I make a plan and discipline myself to follow it until it comes as naturally ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/04/29/make-room-in-your-life-to-write-articles/ Last week the weather was so fine, I got eager to start my garden, and spent some time digging it up with a spade, about a 20-30 minute spell after lunch and again after supper. I was about half done. Then Thursday we began to hear about a big doozer ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/04/22/spring-storms/ Today I think I'll give you a behind the scenes look at working with my SiteBuildIt! (SBI) site. It's true that I have many irons in the fire, to use an old cliche, and I only mention one or two each week here, but this one has been more on ... http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/2008/04/22/perfecting-my-aloe-vera-keywords/