Category: Blog Update

(https://marykisner.com/blog-update-november-3-2025/)

Hello Readers! It’s time to give you a quick update about my Blog. My first blog entry was was in January, 2021. Since then, I’ve written 452 posts about all kinds of stuff. It seems I continue to make, bake or research something at least once a week and I still enjoy sharing how I do it.

Finding a Specific Post:

I find the search feature of WordPress to be cumbersome. I did not add ‘tags’ to each post at the very beginning and eventually discovered that was how WordPress indexed things. By the time I realized I should have done that, I just decided to go with my PDF list of posts with hot links. I was already making the list as I went along and it worked for me.

I sometimes think I should go a step further and pull together posts with a common theme…like sewing projects or greyhound information…and make a booklet available, but that never quite materializes (smile). I guess I’m counting on folks to explore the downloadable PDF that lists all my posts with hot links. You can download it from here (it is also on the ‘Welcome’ page):

Since the website (run by WordPress) seems to have updated and now the link to the ‘Blog’ on the ‘Welcome’ page doesn’t seem to work, I’ll make a point to put the link to each article at the top of the text. If you have subscribed to my blog, you should receive an email each time I post. That link at the top might be helpful if your computer or phone doesn’t download the pictures. That happened on my phone last week!

About my readers:

My website/blog does not function quite like Facebook. I know I have 28 folks subscribed and they receive an email when I post, but I don’t know who reads what. I know how many people read each article each day…but not who they are. I know what countries folks are from that read anything on my website. I seem to have readers in the United States, United Kingdom, Chile, Australia, Ireland, Norway, Belgium, Germany, Canada and a few others. Very interesting! Lately, I’ve noticed someone must be exploring the PDF one post at a time so my viewer numbers have increased to over 100 each day! That’s exciting! I hope someone is trying lots of new stuff! That’s my goal!

About comments:

If you recall, a few months ago I had to disconnect the ‘comment’ choice at the end of each post. That worked from that date forward. However, I still receive over 100 spam comments each day that I need to manually remove. Most are not even in English! Thus, I’ve added a note at the end of each post that includes my email address (maryjkisner@gmail.com). I do love to hear from interested folks! It was impossible to find that one comment in the pile of spam. I look forward to hearing from you with questions, comments or suggestions for new topics!

Reminder:

This website/blog is designed to give me a place to share the things I’m doing and write about them. Please notice the site is free, there are no advertisements, I do not try to sell you something and I do not discuss politics. Frankly, if you’re not interested…don’t read it! The digital world is invasive enough. My philosophy is…enjoy! Make it yourself!

I look forward to hearing from you. Enjoy! maryjkisner@gmail.com

Hello all my Blog friends! Just wanted to take a minute to thank you for reading my blog these last 4 years! I have just reached 402 blog entries and have enjoyed sharing quite a variety of projects with all of you!

I have updated the PDF of all my entries on the Welcome page to include all 402 entries. There really is no handy way to search the list (because I didn’t set up an index at the beginning) so if you download the PDF to your computer you’ll have to scan down the list to see what would be interesting.

You can download it here:

I’ve tried to make the titles pretty clear. If you want to check one entry out, just click on the hotlink on the right of each entry and you should go directly to the post. (If it does not go to the post, let me know…it’s probably just a missing letter or dash!) The search bar on the Welcome page is a little cumbersome…I’m sorry about that…but if I touch on a topic I’ve written about before, I try to put the links to the older posts in the new one.

I’ve wondered if anyone really tries to make anything I write instructions for and occasionally I get feedback from readers. However, I have discovered I use my own posts if I want to make something…all the instructions are right there! Not all the recipes I try are delicious; not all the projects are lovely…but I’m reminded what worked and what didn’t. Feel free to save and share any instructions that are helpful to you. Thanks for reading!

Mary

Just a note to let you know I have updated the pdf listing of all of my posts. You can check it out here:

https://marykisner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Blog-Entries-1_309-marykisner.pdf

You can also find the link on the Welcome Page. If you download the document to your computer, it’s easy to click on the active link for each post.

I hope the list will give you some ideas for projects you might like to try yourself. You can email me directly if you have questions or suggestions for future posts at marykisner@comcast.net. Enjoy!

Thanks for your patience! I spent the week trying to figure out what was happening with my website. Many components didn’t work. I couldn’t place pictures or update various things. I was faced with making a decision about how to get tech support…without buying a plan for about $100/year…kind of like Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

Luckily, I have a very patient computer literate son in California who was able to walk me through what to look for and was even able to “share” my computer screen so he could explore things. Turns out I had run out of memory storage and for only an extra $50 or so I could increase the storage…and magically, I can now place more pictures! Yea!!

So, I will continue on with the various articles I had all ready to go to press. Let me know if there are topics you’d like to know more about and I’ll see what I can do! You can email me at marykisner@comcast.net.

Enjoy!

I am stymied by issues with WordPress, the program that is the base of my website. I can’t seem to insert pictures and other features of the site just don’t work well. Very frustrating! I will need to communicate with WordPress for technical advice.

Until I can get things back up and running, know that I’m still doing stuff! Sweet potatoes are out of the pot and a retro apron for my granddaughter is finished. Bert heads off for his second cataract surgery tomorrow so I’ll be away from my desk a while. Hopefully, I can get things figured out quickly.

Please let me know if there’s anything I’m doing that you’d like to know more about. I’ll either reply with an email or make a whole post about it…as soon as I figure out these glitches.

You can email me at marykisner@comcast.net.

Thanks!

Mary

I’m headed out of town today to Minneapolis for a Memorial Service for my last Aunt, my Dad’s youngest sister. It will be good to visit with all my cousins who are convening from around the country. Ted and Kathy (and 10 yr. old Anna) will be joining me in this quick trip. We hope to take time to check out the Mall of America, so I may have some pictures of that when we get back next week.

This is just a reminder that you can download a pdf of all my postings at the link below (also found on my Welcome page). That list has hot links to get to each post. Enjoy browsing all the crazy things I’ve written about over the last two years! More next week!

https://marykisner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blog-Entries-1_275-marykisner.pdf

I want to pause for a minute to share that I’ve now reached 250 postings on my website! I started this back in January, 2021, as a way to stay sane during the covid lockdowns. It has turned out to be a great way to keep my brain active and still have a record of the many projects I’ve done. I find I refer back to things I’ve written to find a recipe or see the pictures I’ve taken of how to make something.

I realize that WordPress has a feature that lets me add “tags” to each article, which then makes a kind of index to find things. Unfortunately, when I started this website I didn’t do that, and somehow didn’t think it was so important. Wrong! Oh well. At this point, I try to include links back to previous articles in a current post if I think that information is relevant.

I’ve tried to keep a running list of everything I’ve posted in an Excel spreadsheet, making the links active so I can quickly go to the article I want. I’ll share it here, in case you’ve wanted to explore the whole pile of posts.

If you’d like to download a PDF list of all 250 posts with hot links to go directly to the story, click here and save it to your hard drive. Then you can scroll to the story you’d like to read and click on the hot link.

I will update the PDF frequently, but the most recent 10 posts are always listed on the Welcome Page.

Thanks for your interest in Mary’s Musings.

Writing this blog has certainly kept me entertained for almost two years. I’ve written 223 posts so far and have taken hundreds of pictures. I’ve written about random stuff from what I’m making, what I’m baking and memories from the past. Through your comments I’ve met some wonderful people, rekindled friendships and reached out to my extended family.

The program I’m using, WordPress, is pretty simple to use but it still stretches my brain to figure out how to do things, like how to embed a pdf document that lists all 223 of my posts so far so you can download it yourself. I did it once, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to do it again.

Soooo…if you want an updated pdf that lists all 223 of my posts with hotlinks to go directly to articles (which is how I go back and find just the article I want) you’ll need to email me directly (marykisner@comcast.net) and I’ll email it to you. Simple as that.

I realize some of my posts are really just “musings” but many have step-by-step instructions about how to make something. I guess I could make booklets that focus on one subject…like bread recipes or how to work with melt and pour soap…but that seems like more work than necessary. I’m sure I’ve missed an important piece of WordPress that will create an Index but to do that, I’ll have to go back through 223 posts and type in the necessary key words into each post. Oops! I should have figured that out at the beginning!

If you are just enjoying catching up with what I’m doing, great! Thanks for checking in!

If you really want to try that recipe I wrote about several weeks ago and can’t find it, send me an email and I’ll send you the pdf with hot links! Enjoy!

Mary marykisner@comcast.net

Of course…two seconds after I figured out how to put the PDF into the WordPress Media Library, I realized I had #195 mislabeled!! Geez! The correct hot link for Entry #195 is https://marykisner.com/blog-update-september-5-2022/ Feel free to correct it in the list. It will be fixed when I upload the next revision to the Media Library. I guess this is what “lifelong learner” means! Enjoy!

Hi Readers!

I just wanted to share this PDF with you. It is a list of all my blog entries from #1 to #195. Each entry in the list has a hot link in the right column so you can click on it and go directly to the entry.

I’m aware that WordPress has another way to create an index to entries, but I’ve never figured out how to that. If I wanted to go back over each entry and create a list of key words or tags, I think the computer would create an index but now that I have 195 entries it seems like a formidable task to go back and do that! I created this PDF along the way for myself so I could easily find a specific article. Now, I’m discovering other folks want a copy too.

So while I’m trying join the 21st century in blogging, this is a lower tech way to index my articles.

I will provide the link to the PDF document below and if you would like to have it, just save it to your computer. After you scroll down the list, if you see something you are interested in, just go to the right-hand column and click on the hot link. If you have any problems, it might be a typing error on my part so let me know if one doesn’t work for you. Just email me any problems at marykisner@comcast.net.

Here is the link to the PDF document:

https://marykisner.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Blog-Entries-1_195-marykisner.pdf