Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Pauses and practice

The house is quiet. Kids are back at school today. Mercifully, the chocolate has gone back into hiding again. Yesterday, we had visitors from Brisbane, and enjoyed the art of all-day conversations. But the introvert in me, is grateful for the stillness, now. I can gather my thoughts, to plan the next steps.

Pauses on my blog, are normally due to one of a few things. I'm either peculating ideas, which need time to take form. Or busy working in the background, on the mundane and/or extraordinary aspects of my life. Family needs me. I need me. Or the words just won't come. But the pauses, always give me new things to write about, later on. So they are productive, in their own way.


Recycled coffee jars and used chocolate wrappers ~ 
make Bunny themed presents, for relatives


I was wondering when I would mention something, I'm working on, in the background through the pauses, though. Something new to do with my blog. It involves, all of the "few" things I mentioned above, and so many more new things, to learn and put into practice.

Okay...

So I'm working on building my own website. A new home for Gully Grove. I won't be closing this blog down, because I'm respectful of the links, others have been so kind to put on their blogs. Plus I don't want to lose, documenting over ten years of our lives. I will still post here, when it has to do with Sourdough, or things which may not have a lot, to do with our property's development. But I will always link to the new website, here, when I write a new post about the property.


Brown paper bags, and used chocolate wrappers ~
also make Bunny themed gifts


I'll share all the reasons why I'm changing, later. But it was time to make a declaration about it. Making it real, instead of a "maybe" that was still creating pauses in writing this blog. It's rather mundane and tedious, to put a website together - but also extraordinary, I can even try. I look forward to unveiling this new development, in full. Soon, I hope!

May you have enjoyed the holiday, just past (safe and sound) ready to pay respects to the Anzacs, next.


12 comments:

  1. Well, that WILL be interesting. I'd love to learn how to do that. Plus if I don't have to go through the interminable captcha process of picking which pictures don't have cars in them before I can comment, I'll be more than happy!

    Good luck with it!

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    1. Oh yes, already switched that (captcha) feature off. The big decision for me in the comments section, is whether to opt for Facebook only accounts, Discus account (which allows you to log in through FB, Google, Twitter or a Discus account) or the generic comment box, which you just prefill the boxes, and don't have to sign-in to any external acount.

      I would go with the latter, in a heartbeat! Only there's no little avatar image or anything to distinguish between the comments. So it reads like newspaper print, all identical, and a little draining in my opinion. That's really the one issue holding me up.

      But yes, no captcha! Nothing more irritating than that, lol.

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  2. Chris, I would have no idea how to set up a website. How is having one preferable to having a blog like this one. I have no idea.

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    1. Thankfully the website building is made pretty easy, with drag and drop features. You just have to find the right hosting company, with the website building templates. There's Wordpress, Wix, Bluehost (which uses Wordpress templates), and I'm with Weebly. So it's not like I have to code everything, from scratch. But I can do limited code to tweak things.

      One of the reasons for having your own website, is you're paying to protect your own content. It belongs to you. Where as with a free blogging platform, the parent company and any third party affiliates, can make an executive decision, and remove whatever content they want from your blog. They can even delete it. Because they're paying for the blogging platform, not you.

      There are many other reasons to switch over, but that's the decider for me. I wanted to protect my content, as much as I could afford to anyway, lol. ;)

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    2. Thanks for the explanation, Chris. I guess the Google + changes were an issue for you too.

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  3. Good luck, it's great to have a project on the go.

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    1. Sure is. Always something new to practice, keeps the hands busy. :)

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  4. You are indeed a clever woman Chris. Good on you, but it all sounds way too complicated for my tiny brain..lol You are not alone in enjoying the peace and stillness in your days. Is it the introvert in us solitude loving souls? I don't know but I do know I can't function without lots of me space. XX

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    1. Ha! Space is great. I'm with you there, 100%. I started this project months ago, not quite sure if I could make it work. But as my mum would say, I'm a real plodder. I get there in my own good time, lol. So thankfully, I've had time to let it all sink in, properly! Cheers.

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  5. Interesting replies to questions I had also. As you probably know, my blog is with Wordpress; I just picked one of their templates, but I don't have full control, for instance they put adds on my posts (which I can't see but other readers can). I had a blog with Blogger initially but it got so frustrating 'getting it right' I would check the preview and hit publish when I was happy, but it always seemed to appear with something amiss....wrong line spacing or something else and I got fed up and switched to Wordpress. I believe I can pay for extra features or something...have never gone into it...would that mean I can protect my content? I don't know. So have you chosen Weebly as a host? I only read one Weebly blog out of all those I read....it doesn't seem to be very popular or well used. Hope you're going to explain as you go through the process. I understand the very simple basics of html coding but not enough to create a full website from it. Would love to have a go, but....time!

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    1. I was going to write a reply, and then decided the detail, probably justified a post, lol. So will answer soon. I can thoroughly understand why others want to protect their content though. :)

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