Time to catch up

After talking to Anne and Mary Ellen in a three-way phone conversation this morning, we thought it might be a good idea to try to revive the Ideal Women's Club blog so we could more easily keep track of each other. I don't know about you guys, but I avoid the telephone like the plague. I'm not high-tech enough for a Blackberry, but I find the Internet useful in lots of ways and spend some time here every day, so it's easy to check a blog once you bookmark it.

Some "how-to" advice: If you want to write your own entry, then sign in and click on "Create Post." As far as signing in, the first time you may have to set up a Google blogger account, which, if you do, you just click on and enter your e-mail address and a password. After that, you should just be able to click on "Sign In" at the top right corner.

If you want to comment on someone else's blog entry, go to the bottom of the entry, and you'll see a small "COMMENT" that you can click on. Sometimes it will show that there are other comments, and you can just click on them and read the comments that are already there. But you can add your own too.

If you want to add photographs, you can use any that you have on your computer or go to a photo-sharing site like www.flickr.com or Google Images and snag a photo to illustrate (like I did, above). But you don't need pictures unless you want to post photos of grandkids, etc., which we would all love to see. When you are composing your entry, on the top toolbar there is a photo icon between the ABC checkmark icon and the filmstrip icon. You just click on that and then you can browse your photo collection and upload any to your blog entry.

It would be great if we could all stay in touch more frequently, because it gets overwhelming to try to figure out where to start when we try to catch up.

I've redesigned the blog to make it more colorful and hope some of you will participate.

If you have questions, just e-mail them to me at nwhalen@frontiernet.net.