{TIP: HOW to Shorten Your FB Fan Page URL}

• Many bloggers also do have a FB (Facebook) Fan Page. Ever noticed that long string of numbers in your URL? Mine looked like this before: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mariettes-Back-to-Basics-LLC/344099510841
• Let me show you how I did change it to: facebook.com/MariettesBacktoBasics
• Yes, if you click on it or copy and paste this into your browser it takes you straight to my FB Page.
• That would be very helpful in mentioning into an email or wherever you want to publish this. Looks neat and will be easy to remember and does not look spammy.
• At first I noticed this short FB Fan Page URL in Avril's Royal Ribbon FB Fan Page: facebook.com/RoyalRibbons. We communicated via our LinkedIn accounts. 
• So I had to figure it out and like to share it here with you.
• Log in to your regular FB account NOT your FB Fan Page!
• In the browser put: facebook.com/username ←click it if you already are logged in.

Click on drop down box next to Pages...

Select the name of your Page or else type in your Page's name

Be careful as your username may be changed only once!

Click Confirm

From my previous posting I had the info below:

• A 'Enter Desired Username' will popup on the right - see where MariettesBacktoBasicsLLC is typed inside.
• Now very careful type inside THAT box the name YOU want to show directly behind facebook.com
• DOUBLE check as it cannot be changed! Make sure you capitalize words as they will appear exactly like that in your new URL.

Good luck! Let me know if you managed to change your Fan Page.

Related link:

{YOUR Facebook Like Plugin for Blogger} | other post by me

{Beaver Location}

• Just feel like showing you where we found this beaver. 
• NOT on our property and as Fabby's Living wrote: 'I just love how the beaver just posed for your camera...so adorable!!' Sorry Fabby, but that beaver did no longer pose, it was dead. 
• Guess that TexWisGirl and The Smart Cat were right about this beaver having been a flood casualty. 
• It sure was not killed by car as Madelief suggested. As I already stated right at the top; it was dead but no wounds, nothing. 
• Johanna from Silber-und-Rosen-Shop did mention that I'd never mentioned this beaver in our wood garden. At least we have NEVER EVER seen any beaver damage but it lived just around the corner from our street, near the big pond. Our creek runs through that pond, underneath the road. 
• There is another creek a bit further and at its banks more or less we found this beaver on the side of the road. Probably got washed out of his house! We did have some 18" or 45.7 cm of rain in a couple of days!!!
• So please look at this Aerial photo that I took from bing.com

Bing.com aerial view

• The blue dot is wrongly placed by Bing and by Google. 
• But in red, at the top of this aerial view, I have marked and pointed at our home.
• Below the red words 'Our Home>', you find the BIG pond and a bit further where another creek runs, through a wooded area with a lot of trees, that's where we found this beaver! Where the arrow (chevron) points. 

Hope this does clarify that it was NOT on our property. Thanks for your time and yes, nature is amazing, especially for both of us coming from such a densily populated country like The Kingdom of The Netherlands! We treasure this property and hope we can manage to stay here for a long time to come.

{Our FIRST Beaver Encounter}

• With all the raging water through our creek and the big pond where the creek is feeding into, we did notice this beaver on the side of the road. 
• Husband Pieter did take some photos of it.
• Quite impressive in size; over 35" or 89 cm! 
• We learned that their weight is from 28 to 70 lb or 13 to 32 kg. 
• Their tail alone measures over 10" or 25 cm. 
• This one was dead, but I still love to show it; no wounds, nothing. 

• It measures over 35" or 89 cm as that is the total length of this yard stick.
• You see husband Pieter's shoe, just for comparison...

• This one probably weighed around 30 lb or 13.6 kg.
• Check out the two links below this post for more info about their amazing consumption of 200 trees annually! They are HARD workers and also can do lots of damage.

• The tail alone is 10" or 25 cm long! 
• Look at its feet...

• Great fur too...
• Would make a nice Russian Hat!

• Here you very clearly see its foot and the large 10"+ tail...

• Face is not really visible but it has tiny ears...
• Have you ever encountered a beaver in your area?

Related links:

Castor canadensis  American Beaver some interesting facts about beavers from the University of Michigan

Fooled by Nature video link about beaver dams