{The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part I}

Living in another continent, creates of course an opening for family members and friends to visit you. For more than 50 times we have had guests in our home. Several of them staying for 2-6 weeks at a time. For that purpose we started with 'The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part I. This in order that both, our guests and we ourselves, would have complete privacy. A second home so to speak with a private entrance. Our best friend's Dad had dug out his basement in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area where he encountered rocks. My husband Pieter said: 'Why don't we also do this?' We don't have rocks so that will be a lot easier... Thus the idea became reality in March of 2003, when we had the door opening cut out of the concrete blocks.

Next to the chimney is the new entrance door to our Rose Suite!

You will get to see the entire Rose Suite after the two initial Construction Videos.

Otherwise you will not understand how this all came about...

Yes, a grueling task of Digging Out 60 Metric Tons of Dirt!

So glad my dear husband Pieter was able to pull this off.

Scary, knowing that five years later he had his quadruple bypass open heart surgery and a stent in his neck.

We feel blessed for many things!

Enjoy this 2.31 minute video.

Related links: {Our Rose Suite Work Shop & Mariette's Back to Basics Shipping Center} | post by me {Our Rose Suite Pantry & TRINITY EcoStorage™ NSF 6-Tier Wire Shelving Racks} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite's Little Room} | post by me
{Our Rose Suit Hallway} | post by me
{Welcome to Our Rose Suite - Entrance} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite Kitchenette} | post by me

{Our Rose Suite Living Room} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite Bedroom} | post by me
{The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part II} | post by me

{How to SHARE POSTS on GOOGLE+ without spamming}

Just would like to show you how to SHARE POSTS on GOOGLE+ without spamming your circles. You can avoid having emails sent to each person; every time you post. Of course Google does not show you how to, but there is a way around. 

Automatically it shows FRIENDS. But if you click on the X behind Friends, that window will close. I've used a yellow marker to guide you...

Instead click WITHIN this box and a drop down window will show. AHA! Click where the yellow marker is.

This is how it looks like...

Now click on PUBLIC

DONE!

All you need to do is click Share...

This way you reach more people and you are not spamming anyone within your circle.

Are you using GOOGLE+ a lot? 

Blogger's New Interface works with it and so far I like it.

{HOW TO: COMMENTS + REPLY SETTINGS}

After some three years of blogging I still come across several bloggers that don't use a comment reply for receiving an email when someone has commented. Or for receiving emails from other bloggers for further interaction. So let's go over these COMMENTS + REPLY SETTINGS.

When hovering with the mouse over a blogger's name in a comment email sent out by Blogger, you may find the following: CTRL + click to follow link: mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com

This means it is a DEAD END! Emails cannot be received; they will come back to you as being not deliverable. This is not a good thing for bloggers.

So first I will show you how to solve this problem.

Go to Design and click Settings. Select Mobile and email.

Put your email address in the box where I marked with yellow. 

Another tip for using Email posts to is helpful for times when you accidentally delete your post or something goes wrong. If you email it to yourself, you still got the entire blog post ready for posting again instead of re-writing it entirely. 

Good habit is for exporting your blog from time to time and saving it on your PC. See link below post with updated info.

In order to receive email notification of a reply email to your comments, you first must do the above step of COMMENT NOTIFICATION EMAIL.

You have seen this type of Comments where you can reply to any other blogger or reply to any question, whatsoever.

To do this you have to change a few settings which I show you below in 2 steps:

1) Go to Design

Click Settings 

Click Other

From the Drop down in Allow Blog Feed: select Full

2) Go to Settings

click Posts and comments

From the Comment Location drop down window select Embedded.

YOU ARE ALL DONE!

All you need to do when leaving a comment in the comment box, in order to receive an email about a reply, click on Subsribe by email as circled red below my comment box.

In order to receive email updates when someone comments on your blog post, you must first set your COMMENT NOTIFICATION EMAIL, shown at the very top in first how to.

This Subsribe by email is NOT to subscribe to the blog itself! Only to this very post for receiving follow up comments! 

SIMPLE but very functional.

Far better than having to go back to the other blogger's post for finding out if there was a reply.

Try it out yourself.

Related link:

{HOW TO EXPORT YOUR BLOG - TO SAVE IT!} newly updated, showing also the New Blogger Interface settings