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Any Blogroll Experts out there?

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I need help!

Yes I know, you probably already guessed that I need help, but I mean I need assistance in helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls.

I’m managing four different blogrolls that people are welcome to join.

The trouble is- I’m having a problem helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls. Some of the people are using:

  • Free WordPress.com
  • Typepad
  • LiveJournal (I don’t think this one hasn’t come up yet, but I bet it will)
  • Blogger

I think I’ve got the blogger instructions mostly figured out – ie make a post, put the blogroll on that, then link to it in your sidebar. But the others? It seems impossible to put blogroll code on Free WordPress.com. Has anyone done this correctly?

If anyone can help out by sending me some simple easy to understand instructions on how to add the blogroll code to a Typepad, wordpress.com, livejournal and or Blogger blog I’d really appreciate it. What I’d like to do, if and when all of these are figured out is create an “Adding a Blogroll to your blog” FAQ, that in the end will be beneficial to everyone.

Please help?





Trivia Blog

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Have you ever been trying to write an article or come up with some blogging ideas to write about? I know I have – perhaps you can tell sometimes. No? LOL Perhaps your writing something for work or a school project?

Well, I think I might have found a site that will help anyone that needs to find some facts, interesting trivia or come up with something unusual to write about. The site is called The Trivia Blog. The site is set up into several different categories, for example you can see what kind of interesting trivia they list for animals, clothing, food, history, holidays or locations. There are more categories to search for facts and trivia I just wanted to give you some examples.

There is a post up right now that lists facts about Eiffel Tower and it’s quite interesting. Did you know that the Eiffel tower 986 feet high and that it weighs 7 thousand tons! Under Holidays there’s an article called “Celebrate Cat Facts this Halloween” with information such as “Ever wonder why a cat sees in pitch-black dark? It’s because their eyes take light in and reflect if back out … like a flashlight!”.

There is a lot of information on this site already, and I’m sure it will grow as time goes by.

Colorful Canna Tropicana

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I took this photo back in August. I always found it amazing just how colorful the leaves of Canna Tropicana can be:

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I brought my canna plants into my enclosed south facing back porch a couple of weeks ago.

Naturally one of the Canna Tropicana’s has decided to bloom like crazy now. I’m giving them a period of cool so they can become dormant, but not damaged by the much cooler temps outside. When the foliage starts to die down I’ll cut it off and bring them into my basement where it’s cool and usually dark, watering them perhaps once a month through the winter. I did that last year and my cannas did wonderfully.

I hope you’re having a great Sunday!

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Please leave a link ONLY if you are a Green Thumb Sunday participant. Other links will be removed. Also DON’T LINK AND RUN! I hate that, especially when my own peeps do it! Besides, there is a benefit to leaving a comment on any of my sites now, see above the Mr. Linky links? See a list of names? Anyone who comments on a post gets a link right below the post now. So come on, leave me a comment.

Beach Cruisers

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Wow, I was surfing the net- what else do I do these days? and I came across an interesting bike called “Beach cruisers. Given the name you probably think it’s some kind of bike that you ride on the beach, but you don’t have to live at the beach to ride this bike. It’s supposed to be comfortable and relaxing.

The bikes are actually really cool looking. You should visit the site just to see them. There are womens, mens, kids, classic beach, multi-speed and chopper style model bikes to choose from, and the prices seem quite reasonable too.

Chris does it again

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I’m supposed to be at a get-together tonight (Saturday). I don’t want to call it a party, because it isn’t really. It’s more of a Fund raiser.

One of the very nice people that both my husband and I work with at the hospital was diagnosed with cancer a couple of months ago and given only 5 months to live. I’m not sure of exactly what kind of cancer she has but it’s obviously a very bad case. The dinner party fundraiser is being held to raise some money to help her kids when she’s gone.

I’m not feeling very well today at all, so unfortunately I decided not to attend the fundraiser.

Chris on the other hand is there right now. He told me that the party was supposed to be semi-formal. Would you care to know what his idea of semi-formal is?

    Faded, almost green grey tinged blue jeans – I guess that’s the “semi” part – and running shoesA suit Jacket – dark blue and wrinkled since he never took it out of the travel bag since he last wore it, nor did he get it cleaned.A white dress shirt

    An Irish green tie

The whole outfit wouldn’t look that bad if 1. he didn’t wear that colour tie, and 2. if you disregard the wrinkles in his suit jacket, but all together it’s too much. The green tie clashes with the jeans and slightly with the suit jacket.

I tried to get him to put on a tie of a different colour. No- his other ties are grey and blue and that’s too funeral like. Alright then … I seem to remember him having a nice red one, but he made it clear that he was going with the green tie.

So I tried another approach pointing out the wrinkles in his suit jacket and suggested that he wear his grey suit jacket, or he has a slightly more casual beige one. No, he doesn’t like the gray one and didn’t look for the beige one.

Oh well, knowing him that suit jacket has been off pretty much since he arrived at the dinner party fundraiser. If the other guests at the party were lucky hopefully he removed the tie too! If he didn’t remove the tie he’s probably really clashing right now.

I love the guy, but he leaves me shaking my head an awful lot more than I think I should be shaking it. LOL Men!

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Update:

Chris didn’t stay at the dinner / fundraiser too late. He came home at about ten o’clock since he had to work at 7 this morning. I had forgotten to mention that along with the tacky green tie and wrinkled jacket he was also bringing his guitar.

We had received a call from one of the organizers of the party at about 5 pm on Saturday with a special request for Chris to bring his guitar and play at the party. He did of course! He never misses a chance to play in front of an audience. Apparently, about 200 people attended the dinner so he had a good sized audience. I wish I’d been there to see him perform. He’s always entertaining.

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