4 Things We Learned This Week 19 of 2012 (Delaware, Photobucket, Charity, Contest)

Friday Fragments is hosted my Half-Past Kissin' Time for bloggers to post a list of short things on their minds that aren't really enough for a whole post. We like to share what we've learned each week.

1. Delaware

   Until I started reading Every Secret Thing by Ann Tatlock, I never knew Delaware was the first state and is SO small--only 85 miles lengthwise and 35 miles wide at the southern end and just 8 miles wide just below Wilmington up north!
   

2. Photobucket

   UGH! I found out that Photobucket changed the way of making collages and now I don't know how to make new ones for my blog header. This is so annoying! I also had to take down my "How To" video on how to do this because it's out-of-date. I watched the tutorial on their website, but have no idea how to resize it and make it work for my blog. Any help would be much appreciated! At least I can reuse one I've used before.

3. Operation Shower

   Over at It's Just Life I discovered a new charity that supports military families. Beth will contribute per comment on her blog so please stop by and comment over there too. Here's the link to Operation Shower if you'd like to find out more about it.

4. Spunky Doodle Needs Your Help

   
   
   My cat, Spunky Doodle, would really, really like to win author Lisa Unger's Pet contest and become famous by being included in one of her books but needs your help. Only 3 people have voted for her so far that we know of on Facebook. Please go vote for Spunky if you are on Facebook. You can vote every day through May 9. (If you vote, please let us know in the comments here because it doesn't always show up on Facebook. It would be nice if you would also share it on your page and ask your friends to vote too!

(50 cents per legitimate comment during May goes to Joni and Friends for family retreat scholarships for those having special needs children.)

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6 Things I Learned in Week 1 of 2009

Sadly, I learned that the Carousel Dinner Theater in Akron, Ohio has closed. I feel bad for all the people who worked there and for the season ticket holders who now will not see any of the shows scheduled. Gerard and I only went twice but enjoyed it both times when we saw "Annie, Get Your Gun" and "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers." Their last performance was sold out.

Exercising Tid Bits from a personal trainer who I met with for the first time:

• Touch the muscle you are working as you work it if you can.
  
• It's good to sweat, so you should wear a sweat suit while doing cardio and then if you get too warm, you can take off the jacket
  
• Stand and walk around a bit between sets when working the legs.
  

(I also am learning some things about posting from Blogging For Dummies. Several times I've wanted to make a bullet point list in a post but didn't know how. That's one thing I learned how to do this week from reading this book.

I never realized photobucket had such cool features to use with your photos until I saw this post at Purrchance to Dream. You can put your photos in frames or on posters and use a lot of different effects. Here is a sample picture of mine that I played with so show you.


When reading Daily Blog Tips, I found out that it's a good thing to link to older posts in your blog not only as a help to the readers but also in light of search engines. I've done this some when I do an update post or if I am referring to something I've written in the past. That's when that search widget comes in handy--I love it! Anyhow, I will plan to do a post about what I think are my my most popular in 2008 and some early posts that I think were good but didn't get a lot of comments perhaps because it was early on in the life of this blog.


According to a post I read about apples at Health Nut Wannabee Mom, eating apples may help prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinsonism. I never heard this before but really think I will add those Delicious Red apples to my diet this year.

Thanks to my wonderful blogging friend, Mountain Woman at Red Pine Mountain, I learned that I can have my blog connected to Facebook so friends on facebook can follow it there. If you are on Facebook, look me up and join my blog "neighborhood." It's the Networked Blogs badge in the right sidebar.