Blogs And Facebook, Women Bloggers and My Brother.....And an Old Dog....

You need to go read this blog.
It's funny.   And interesting, but we all know funny is better.
She talks about bloggers all getting their periods @ the same time like girls living in the same house.  Not to far from reality.
No time to do anymore, I have to go look for my dog. Skeeter.  Judy (Squirrelqueen)  suggested that Skeeter may be a zombie.  We laughed and laughed @ that but it's not too far from the truth.  She can hear whistles though.  She has been walking from house to house which is like 300 yards every day, I've had to feed her ham while she lays down and bring her water though.  Have you ever seen a dog eat while laying on her side?  Trust me they WILL do this. 
I am also swearing off facebook for the day.
It's harder than I imagined. 
My brother is SUPPOSED to be getting a computer today.  If so I will have to make him a facebook account (excuse for getting back on facebook, my DOG is even on facebook, he needs me to check his page?), my brother  is old enough to be my father but I bought him a computer (with his money) years ago.  He never did get on the internet with it and now it's obsolete but like the WHOLE family is on facebook.  Hopefully he's going through with getting the puter this time.  He can run a computer, our dad was a mechanic and I swear the idea is the same, turn the switch on, it needs power and the stuff to work, duhhhhhh.  We will see.
I keep telling him he has to get on the internet so I will quit making fun of him on it.......

Stumbleupon, Digg, Del.icio.us and what I'm doing

For one thing I got rid of my google toolbar, sorry google, and delicious and all the rest, I installed bookmarklets which I admit I didn't know about since I just got back into the computer thing hot and heavy after several years absence. I was actually trying to figure out why firefox was using immense amounts of memory.
For another thing all my blogger friends!! WHEN you have a particularly good post I am submitting it to digg, del.icio.us, and stumbleupon. Not asking anyone to do the same for me but........no seriously we should use those tools more and even tweet about great articles, I don't always do that but I'm starting NOW. I've been stumbleing some etc. and am making a conscious effort to do so now.
Also since I can't put this plug in too many places, CHANGE your bookmarks to my NEW blog addresses and please change on your blog log if I'm so honored to be there?
Florence View is now Tresa's Blog and Animals that Give Pause is the same name just .com @ the end. Yes I own my own .com, LOL.
I need to get outside and get my fat lazy dog who is on my lap outside while it's not raining!!

Most Wonderful Favorite Award

This award is based on friendship. My friend SquirrelQueen passed it on to me on her blog Through Squirrel Eyes . Thank you very much SquirrelQueen I am honored. I would like to change the rules and pass it back to who gave it to me but that's not the idea!
These are the rules in accepting this award:



Deliver this award to eight bloggers who then must choose and deliver the award to eight more and include the following text into the award.





"These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers."





I would like to honor the following bloggers. As noted in the text above, my aim is to find them as friends. These are blogs that I hope everyone will visit and follow.

Oranmental, by Nina.

aMusings Blog, by aMusing.

Drawing and Painting, by Poet.

Hypnotic Visualization, by Monaliza.

Checkers The Peek A Poo, by Checkers.

A Majority of Two, by Jo.

Eduardo The Snuggle Puggle, by Eduardo.

My Fire Hydrant, by Bev and Bailey.

Once again thanks SquirrelQueen, and for those who read my other blog Animals that give pause I didn't make a mistake, I won the award twice!!!

Blogging Help Site, SEO, Image Search

OK, here's the link.
I'm still reading it but have lots of work to do evidently. SEO, and blogging ethics are about as far as I've gotten. This is a great how to site, how to use Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati, what to really do to get your site noticed, besides writing good content of course. I could go on but I'm reading.
Now I need to go to enhanced image search on webmaster tools. Go to the link and you will find out all about it.
Happy SUNDAY!! Grandkids are here, I'll have a post on my animals blog later.

Blogging Tips

Ok, here's the link to 25 tips to better blogging.

Pretty informative, I'm on twitter, thinking about facebook, no problemo getting web space, I free lance for a web design company. The rest of the tips are worth thinking about. Go with what you feel comfortable with, there is no sure formula for blogging success other than good content, great pictures but other things can make it happen faster.

If you look @ my other blog Animals That Give Pause it has quite a bit more traffic than this one. Why? I wrote more regularly, I commented more on blogs with animals on them, I was on an animal forum, I included more pictures, but the one thing I think that actually brought so much traffic? A lucky break and keywords! That's it. So keep up whatever you are blogging on, fine tune it, and like the movie says, "they will come".

So what is everyone elses opinion?