Edgar Allan Pony and Betsy
Yes, the blog update/makeover has been completed. It’s a little different than the old format so I thought I’d give you a little tour.
We might as well start here on the main page. This is just like the old blog, where I will post entries on a regular basis and you may feel free to comment. There’s kind of a cool new feature in which you may reply to a specific comment made by another and it will appear under their comment. I don’t know why I find that so thrilling but it feels very Huffington Post to me. Also, you may click “like” if you actually do like the comment. It would be nice if you had other options to click like “hate” “just ok” “too braggy”, etc, but I guess that’s what the comments section is for. To the right are the old categories and tags which will help you if you’d like to search for something on the blog and there is also the search bar. Also, please click on my Facebook and Twitter pages and see what’s going on there. I really don’t know what happens when you “subscribe.” Do any of you do this? Does it notify you when I post a new entry?
Let’s have a look at some of the other pages, shall we? On the upper right corner of your screen you will see four little boxes. The first is called “My Books” and it has little reviews and summaries of the books and also, if you feel so inclined, NO PRESSURE, but I believe that you can click on a link and purchase one or both of the books. Next is the “In House Radio” box. Don’t even open that yet. Over the next few days I will be posting summaries and links to the interviews I have done on my little NPR show, but they’re not there yet. Moving right along in a clockwise fashion, we find ourselves at the “My Videos” box, which is really my favorite. Here you will find all my videos together in one place and you may view them at your leisure. It’s like a little screening room. Of animal videos. That are mercifully short. Your smiling host is, of course, our dashing Gomer.
Finally we arrive at the “Contact/Bio” page. This bio is rather dated, I know. But you will find my email address there and some other stuff.
Well, I think that’s it.
Oh, one more thing, I wish all of you peace, love and great joy this holiday and always, my dear blog friends.
Photo by Katie Hylen
Love the new website! Merry Christmas to you and yours Ann! Love the picture you look so gorgeous! x
Thanks and back at you xo
it says the time i wrote my post was 3.46 but it is 10.46 i think your blog might be set to pacific time??
Love the new look and I am so glad you went back to your original title!!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thanks and same to you, Joletta
Something new and fresh for 2011. Thanks so much. All the best to you and yours.
Merry Christmas Linda!
God you are just too gorgeous to be as funny as you are. Trying not to sink into envy of your wicked good life during this joyous Christmas season as series of small domestic disasters within the past 24 hours befell me(refrigerator broke with carefully prepared Christmas party food spoiled; broke a tooth; daughter can’t leave L.A. due to job) was reminded by self-same daughter to “hang in there, Mom..word out here is baby Jesus due to arrive tomorrow!”.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all fellow commenters!
Paula, you are too sweet to be as funny as you are! Merry Christmas!
Ann,
I subscribe to your blog and your posts appear in my Google reader. It’s like magic! People can also subscribe to have posts delivered straight to their email.
Happy Christmas!
How did you get your picture there Kathleen?? What a great feature !!
Yes, so cool to have photos. And what is a Google reader? Is it like a Kindle?
No, not like a Kindle. It’s a web-based reader. You can add all the blogs you read and posts are automatically delivered. http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html
Barbara, I think it’s because I have a Google account with an avatar. Whenever I comment in blogs, my photo appears, too.
Love it.
Glad the email still there I send Ann videos so sure that she will find them as funny as I do lol
Thanks Tammy!
Love the new blog format! It looks great, and the new photos Katie took are gorgeous. The dogs look good too.
We at Thunder Moon Farm and Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue wish all of you a joyous holiday and a bright New Year!
And to you too KC!
I want to wish Ann and all my Wicked Good Life blog buddies a Merry Christmas. I cherish you all, and I do think of you as buddies.
You too Sandra! Merry Christmas
My daughter just showed me this video of the crankiest animal on earth. Do not have liquid in your mouth when you watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TugslL45aXk
That goat must be related to a llama or a camel with all that spitting. Funny tho. Would love to have some subtitles.
I would have loved subtitles, too! That was funny!
That was hilarious!!!
I’m THRILLED to see ‘Wicked Good Life’ again!
The new blog looks wonderful!
Merry Christmas to everyone!
PS That nasty stomach bug my son had last week and I got over the weekend…well my daughter just got it this morning.
She is such a trooper and is not even complaining. Must be the magic of Christmas!!!
Bummer about bug, I just had it. Hope you all recover soon and Merry Christmas Christine!
PSS It is only 2:08 here
I just noticed that the elephant in the room has disappeared. And I didn’t even ask to have it removed. Remember our little book club? Remember the giant book that I chose and everybody hated so much that nobody even mentioned it when the discussion day came and went? Did any of you finish it. I did not. And now we don’t have to because it went away.
Oh good…I was having a smidgin of guilt about not signing up…I find it especially hilarious that you didn’t finish it!
I hope the book club doesn’t go away completely. I read some books I probably wouldn’t have because of your blog. Maybe a popular vote on the future books? (I think you did that with Rebecca.)
Happy Holidays to you and your family, Ann!
That’s a great idea Amanda. Thanks.
I will suggest one since there are so many dog lovers: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Really great fiction–happy, sad–with amazing insight into dogs.
I just love the redesign and having the old name back. I also like the idea of voting on the next book. I have really enjoyed discovering these new books I may not have otherwise read.
Thank you for the enjoyment I get regularly from you blog and I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas.
2nd vote for keeping the book club! merry christmas, kids – hope everyone has a great holiday!
Very cool update on the website Ann! Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday! And a big shout out to all the Rochester, NY connection bloggers!
Merry Christmas everyone!!
Great new look, I like it. I would also like to read another book like Rebecca, that was a great book. Lets keep the book club. That goat clip is very buh hum bug, too funny. Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Christmas.
God Jul and Merry Christmas!! Your new format looks great!
Ann, I love the new look! May you and yours (and that includes my fellow blog readers!) have the happiest of Christmases! Thank you for all of the enjoyment you and your talents have given me!
Love the new look, Ann. Plus, your photo looks more like you than the old one. Merry Christmas to you & your family! Look forward to more stories in the new year.
Lisa, Sandy, Wanda, Mary L, Candy, Lynne, Pat – many thanks and happy holidays to you.
Happy Holidays to all from the West Coast. Have enjoyed this blog and all of the wonderful people I have/haven’t met. lol! We seem to be a wonderful cast of characters. I may not participate, but I do read the books and follow the talks. My vote for the book club. Nice Blog evolution. Ann, your picture is beautiful & Mr. Gomer is so handsome. My wish is for everyone to go eat some cookies and find peace and happiness this Christmas Eve.
Love the blog, adore the new look! I have enjoyed the book club and do hope it does not go away too far…..walking distance perhaps? Merry Chistmas to you ALL and may we all continue to have our very own “Wicked good life”~~! Cheers!
Love the new look, Ann! Especially love having all the videos in one place. Now I can watch BOW WOW over and over. I love Nina Simone’s music & the bond
between you and Mark. Merry Christmas to you & yours and to all the other blog readers here.
Love the new look of the blog, Ann! Hope you and yours had a great holiday! I am all for keeping the book club. This is the only club I’m in, so I’d like to keep it going!