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Curveballs

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Life has a way of throwing you curveballs when you least want/need them. Not nice, Life. Not nice at all. First, my last post was a year ago. How did a full year go by without me writing something? I don’t know. I can’t even come up with a real excuse. I’ve just been a bad, bad girl, I guess. So time to do some catching up.

Curveball #1: In my last post, I mentioned letting go of the shooting club’s website maintenance. Well, that didn’t last very long. A few months after transferring the maintenance to someone else, a succession of events put me back in charge and things got busy. A third website was created for the 1st Annual RoughRider Roundup match held by the Dakota RoughRiders Cowboy Action Shooters. As of the writing of this post, we are starting to update the site for this year’s match so there isn’t much to see at the moment. However, you could view last year’s pictures. Who knows, it might make you want to come and join us. If you have no idea what Cowboy Action Shooting is, you can learn more on the Dakota RoughRiders’ website, as well as on the website of the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS).

Curveball #2: My business still isn’t running. I have a small inventory ready, but I’m currently stopped because of a lack of funds. I was wondering whether to participate in fairs and/or open an online store. It became obvious pretty quickly that the fairs wouldn’t work. The cost of renting a booth is pretty high and would make it pretty hard, if not impossible, to turn in a profit. So I decided to go with an online website. Of course, I need a bank account so I can make transactions online. Well, there’s a minimum amount of money required to open a business account and I just don’t have it at the moment. I’ve been putting money aside for a while now, but it’s a slow process. When will my online store be open for business? At this point, I have no idea. I haven’t given up though. Slowly, but surely, I guess we’ll get there.

Otherwise, life has been treating our little family pretty well and that’s a good thing.

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Completed move to WordPress

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Well, things went smoother than I expected so the blog is back up and running again, this time with WordPress as the main engine!

Things are pretty straightfoward under the new setup. I was able to transfer all the content, including the comments, but unfortunately I couldn’t transfer the ratings on the entries. Oh well, Simple PHP Blog is a world and a half away from WordPress so it was to be expected that something would be lost.

There are still a few things that need to be set up, but most of the work is done. Time for a little break from the computer though, I’ve been at this for two days straight. :sleep:

Moving to WordPress

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Well, I started the process. I’m transferring this blog to WordPress. The change should be completed in a day or so. Finally!

What got me going is that I want to post about some things but don’t want to go through the pains of using this blog software. I’ve been using Simple PHP Blog for years. It did its job well and was ok for when I didn’t know any better. WordPress is way easier to use and is being maintained and updated, unlike Simple PHP Blog which has been abandonned years ago.

So keep your eyes open, a new look is coming! Well, it’ll kinda be the same but it’ll be different, if that makes any sense

Time flies

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It’s been a looooooong time since I posted anything here. I’ve been so busy that I had even forgotten about this blog! Not good. Not good at all

Anyways, just a quick note to say we’re both doing fine and that as time allows (yeah, right), I’ll be updating more on here. At least, that’s the plan. We’ll see how it goes.

I recently redid a website and used WordPress for it. I just love WordPress! It’s so darn easy to set up and use! Way better than this one. Has more options too. So I’ll probably change this blog over to WordPress. Don’t hold you breathe though, it might take a while!

The Almosta Ranch website

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Finally got caught up with all the pictures I took in the past year and a half. Sure I’m glad it’s done because now I can officially open the Almosta Ranch website!

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The look of the home page will eventually change because right now it’s not much in terms of design. I started a new look using CSS for formatting but it will be a little while before it’s completed.

So come and see all the beautiful sights that North Dakota has to offer!