Tuesday 4 & Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Do you think that you handle problems well over all? Just depends on that the situation is.

I used to want to control everything, either with action, or just in my head. I try to look at the

big picture. I take things to God more instead of doing things myself.

2. What kinds of problems send you into a tizzy or downright scare you? Maybe some just exasperate you? Yes some things exasperate me. I have to remember what I can and cannot do. You can't change another person or situation just because it bothers you. Sometimes I have to let it go or take a break. Something require action. I am going to physical therapy for the numbing I was having in my arms and legs. It is helping. I can't control my genes and how it affects my physical body. I can try the best I can to eat well. I just have to stick with it and not get discourage.

3. We always have God in our corner but besides him do you have a reliable back up system to go 

to for help with car trouble, home repairs and maintenance, or any troubles that may arise for you?

I rely on my husband for most of these things. If he wasn't around, I would ask for help or learn.

4 I love the idea that a lovely cupcake can fix anything at all.  "Oh, you are sick? Just eat a dozen of these delicious cupcakes and you will be right as rain!" What foods, places, music or whatever can make a problem seem easier to handle? I guess we are talking about what brings you comfort in the way of material things. Music, Bible journaling, time with good friends, soaking in my spa. Reading and watching things that are encouraging. Food rarely comforts me. My hubby makes a good chicken soup that he makes and that is comforting, especially when I am sick.

1. What is an adult problem nobody prepared you for? 

Aging. I totally understand what my 80 year old grandma told me once. It is hard when you mind tells you that you are young, but your body tells you otherwise. It is frustrating to want to do things but you can't because you are not physically able to. I wish I would have known how important exercise and eating enough protein was important. I wish I had known that the medicines I took in my 40's and 50's would cause problems of today.

2. Without mentioning any tech, what's your most prized possession? 

The ring my mom gave me and my Journaling Bibles. I also have my grandmother's Bibles.

3. It's National Peach Ice Cream Day (July 17th). Will you be celebrating? Do you like peaches? Given a choice would you prefer peach ice cream, peach pie, peach cobbler, or just hand me a peach? Do you own anything that is peach in color? 

I like peach cobbler. Fresh peaches remind me of my Grandpa David. He would take them off his tree, hose them down and give us one. I ate some peaches last month that my son gave us from his tree. I do own a couple of shirts that have that color in them.

4. What makes a friendship successful? 

Sharing a common interest. Making time to spend time with each other both in person and through text. I have a few close friends. My sister and my cousin are my closest friends. I can tell them anything without judgement. We share the same interest. We can speak truth and feel safe and loved. We can go days without talking/texting and pick up where we left off. I think it is the same even online. If you blog and your readers respond and you respond, there is a mutual friendship made.

I once read that friendship is like playing tennis. Both parties have to hit the ball over the net. Sure, things can keep it from going across, but you pick the ball up and try again. Once that stops, the game is over. Blogging is more than making friends. It is about writing out your thoughts and being able to go back and look at them. I still refer to my original blog for lots of info I use on current memes. The blogging community I was in before Facebook was fun and caring. But life happens and I moved from my old blog to this one and made new friends!

5. Let's give our brains a rest and do a little summertime this or that...

beach or pool? ice cream or snow cone? amusement park or camping?* like both, but hubby doesn't life camping anymore) burger or hot dog? watermelon or strawberries? get up early or sleep in late? sunrise or sunset? 

I do love the beach and have only been once this summer. I may go next week.

I did have a nice time with my grands at my sisters house over the weekend.

6. Insert your own random thought here. I am thankful for the people that host the memes and encourage participation and take the time to visit your blog.

My previous post had a long story about my summer in Mexico as a teen.

Thanks to Annie and Joyce for the mems. Their links are on the left.

Blogging

Blogging

 1.  How often do you blog? What helps you blog.. what hinders you? I blog 2-3 times a week. Years ago when I was in the country web home/blog community, I blogged daily. 2002-2019 blog post are at my website. my Bible journaling and crafting keeps me busy. My grands too!

 
2.  What benefits do you get from blogging? Are there any? I think blogging helps me express some of my thoughts. It has allowed me to meet new people. Meme really help too!
 
3.  Have you ever changed your blog theme? My web home is called Susan's Garden of Friendship. There are probably over 300 pages. My blog there is the same here. Susan's Sayings. I changed the graphics out seasonally. 

4. Where do you get your ideas for blog posts? Mostly Memes now. My family and activities are my main focus. Then my Bible journaling and crafting.

My dog Minnie has been sick and I am asking for prayers. She has some type of intestinal infection with blood.

 

Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 kept up in her memory.

This week the questions were supplied by Pamela Steiner... Here we go, let's talk about Blogging!

1.  Tell us about your blog.  When did you start blogging? I made my first official blog post in 2002. But back in 1999, I discovered the world of Country theme websites. This is where I met Lori, Melanie and Toni. I started my site through  Yahoo Geocities and used a drag and drop program. I had a lot to learn about using graphics and copyright and so on. Eventually Geo left and Yahoo and allowed us to do more detailed pages. I learned to do html so that I could do layers and place graphics how I wanted. I still have my website up and it is linked to the right. I have more than 200 pages that are listed at my site map. Many of those topics will take you to "cottages" that contain many more pages. But prior to the blogs, we had intro/welcome pages where we would share things and new pages we had done. We had guestbooks were people left comments and left a link to a graphics. We could even add background music. Later I got my own domain and changed my hosting services. It was such a great community! We would send each other gifts(graphics siggies(those cute things at the bottom of our pages) We exchanged birthday, anniversary and Christmas cards. We had adoption shops and more. We learned many new things. Then came Blogger and Facebook. Sadly it took many of our friends because those were both free. For some reason I could not link my pages to Blogger for Memes. Some people had a hard time navigating my inlineframe pages. That is where you have a list on one side. As you click on a topic the page appears in the middle. I got a Blogger page around 2009 but hardly used it. I missed being able to use my graphics the way I wanted. 

2.  What prompted you to begin blogging? Women started doing blogs at their websites so I joined in too. Some women went to Blogger for blogs though they kept there sites. Blogger started in 1999. I liked having more control of my site so I kept my blog housed on my webhome.  We shared about our families and celebrated occasions. When 911 hit, there was so much support and outreach. We shared pics of our family like this one. This was taken with my siblings and spouses at a family baby shower.

3.  What was your first blog about and why did you choose that subject/title?

I copied this from my first official blog post. The date is listed. It shows the HTML coding because that is how we all got to do our multi layered pages. I will leave a link to one at the end.

 <center><img src="blog/kleinroos.gif" width="43" height="17"></center>

<font face="tempus sans itc,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">

<align=center>Sunday July 28, 2002<br> Todays saying is: Don't give up.

<p align=justify> Hi there! I am finally getting to do a blog. This is more like a journal of what's going on in my life. I could not figure out the FTP thing and so I decided I can do my own journaling. bI want to thank God for giving me the ability to do "all things". I want to thank Him for my family and friends. Hugs, Susan  </p>

4.  How has your blog changed over time, and has it done for you what you hoped it would do in the first place? Blogging has changed a lot over the years. I tried Wordpress and did not like it. The key thing about blogging for me is making friends. Meeting people from all over. I still have several of my friends from our country days and I see most of them on Facebook. A lot of those friends are from other countries. They blogs/webhomes were unique because they had dual pages. English and the language of their country. Brazil, Mexico, Sweeden, Norwary, Japan, Austrailia and more. Many were graphics artist that sold their graphics so we could decorate our pages. They drew their graphics and did not use pixel art. 

Now the main focus is meeting and chatting with friends. Thanks to this computer. I have had 2 desktop computers and this is my 3rd laptop.

Here is a link to my Old Blog. There are links to my Hawaii trips.