Fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to preserve memories…

I don’t usually use expressions like fastest, easiest, and cheapest but today is an exception. When it comes to preserving family memories there is a way to do it that fits those three criteria. Create a Blogger site. Blogger is a site created by Google. It’s free. You can add pictures as well as text. You can add to it whenever you want. Although it’s supposed to be a blogging site, it’s actually whatever you want to make out of it.

Try Blogger to preserve your family memories. It’s easy, fast, and free.

Try it if you want to preserver family memories.

How to create a gardening blog…fast and free!

The best way to show off your garden and learn about other gardens is to see pictures…on blogs.

Unfortunately, there aren’t many gardening blogs by flower clubs! And the ones that do exist are usually not maintained. It’s not unusual to look at a club’s site that talks about their recent show…in 2015.

Considering that you can create a website in a manner of minutes (yes, minutes) and you can create one for free…I’m not sure why there aren’t more of them. If your club wants to get started here’s a quick list of things to do.

  1. Go to Blogger to create an account. All it takes is a free email address using Gmail.
  2. Once you have an account you can create a blog and have it online…in minutes.
  3. Yes, it’s that fast…and free.
  4. Your site will have an address that will look like this: namethatyoupick.blogspot.com.
    If you want to get fancy you can register your own domain name (i.e. namethatyoupick.com) for $12 per year. No kidding, it’s that cheap.
  5. Enjoy. Need help, don’t hesitate to contact me. No kidding.

The first gardening blog…?

Gardening is very popular. Blogging is very popular. It’s no wonder that there are so many excellent gardening blogs. However, the first and probably the best gardening blog had no photos. It was begun on March 30, 1766 … by Thomas Jefferson!

Jefferson was an avid gardener who kept meticulous records of his garden. He probably thought of it a diary. We call them blogs. Here’s an example of the first entry that Jefferson made.

As Jefferson wrote it…
As reproduced…

The collection makes up The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson. It consists of more than 500 pages of information about his garden.