Any day now, I won’t be able to post messages on this site. My subscription is due for renewal and I will not renew. I refuse to pay $600.00 for additional space so I can upload pictures and clipart. I hope the reader can find me at Eighty-eight and counting. At this hour, 6:10 AM Wednesday, October 18th, the other website is “under construction.”

Wishing my faithful followers God’s richest blessings!!

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Postscript on 21 Oct 2023: I had the foresight to remove my credit card information (from WordPress) so they could not automatically renew my subscription.

Yes, WordPress sent an email requesting a payment update. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could bill them for all my frustration and sleepless nights?

Depressed, discouraged, disillusioned… 😦

I’m not happy with the features of my new website. I will keep tweaking… and meanwhile, you can find me at Eighty-eight and Counting.

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Moments later: Well, that was a disaster. So much work on the new site and the individual messages were not displayed. OMG!!   😦  😦  😦

This is what I anticipated that you would see. (Click that link.) Even as I prepare this sentence, and this paragraph, I hasten to say that this link may not continue to be available (as I continue to work on the site). Again, I say “discouraged.”

A new blog message was prepared and published on Eighty-eight and Counting. I’m brain-weary so I won’t attempt to describe the obstacle course that I’ve encountered.

Very briefly, my thoughts on this Sunday afternoon.

I’m so glad that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me and provides for me. SERIOUSLY!! As the old hymn goes I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer.

I’m sad because I am unable to do the things I used to do. My tools were stolen from the carport of my trailer home so I can’t accomplish some projects in my new residence. Our facility is short of staff so I can’t request assistance. Regrettably, there are things at my former residence that need to go to a new location and I can’t get them from “point A to point B.”

“Sad”  isn’t the accurate expression for my blog problems. “MAD” is a better description. I am at a standstill as I attempt to create a new blog site. “Real live people”—with WordPress—offer suggestions and links to tutorials but I’m not one inch closer to a satisfactory new location. (Time to give up blogging?)

Old age is a bummer!!

No family, no assistance, no maintenance.

Here is the message I sent to WordPress. I emphasized my request with words in “bold” and “underlined” and “highlighted.”

Greetings from Lorraine. I DESPERATELY NEED HELP!!!!

I do not want the expense of “Business” or paying that ridiculous amount of money for extra space. I don’t need or want all the extra features of “Business.” I’ve been trying to start a new blog site and it is incredibly complicated. I never had that much trouble creating blog sites in the past (check and see that I have several). I just want a very simple heading and I want to be able to create messages with Classic Editor.

If you check my account, you will see that I have recently been billed for several features. I think I have duplicates and I’m still unable to get to Eighty-Eight and Counting and create an attractive message (like I was able to do with Three Quarters And Counting).

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE give your time and attention to this long-time subscriber.

Respectfully,
Lorraine Frantz Edwards

Will I receive a “canned” message or an answer from a real-life breathing human?

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

“Old lady Lorraine” is still alive and well. I haven’t perfected the new blog location yet. Wishing my readers “Happy first day of October.”

Four thousand individuals with the FRANTZ surname in the Lorraine Frantz Family Tree (in Ancestry). I wish I could share an image.

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Hours later!! I created a new blog site and it is titled Eighty-eight and Counting. I found it extremely difficult to prepare a message so I am facing a “learning curve.” The reader will see new images on the new site.

Creating blog messages and/or “climbing the family tree” is my medicine. When sick, half-sick, stressed, or distressed, I forget the pain or fatigue while engrossed on the computer. The “garage sale” is over and this very tired old lady wasn’t content to sit in the recliner. “Time to prepare another blog message.”

Complaint #1: The retirement facility did not advertise the event to the city–wide community of Waco. A sign wasn’t prepared until 10:00 AM Friday and then placed at the major thoroughfare past our building.

Complaint #2: Most of the residents did not know about the “garage sale” until they headed toward the dining room for breakfast or lunch.  For the most part, “the residents”  did not need—or want—the items we had for sale.

I haven’t counted my money to see how much I collected. Off the top of my head, I’m thinking about $125.00. Will I do this again??  “Yes,”  because another garage sale is promised for next month—and next time two of us participants will make sure there is advertising directed toward folks living in the Waco, Texas, area.

I regret that I can’t display pictures. Remember, I am “out of space”  on this blog. I’m considering creating a new blog and thought I’d title it Eighty-eight and counting. (It is much less expensive for me to start a new blog versus “upping” the gigabytes for this blog.)

…I’d have the “Hallelujah Chorus“  playing at top volume!!

I’d have the Hallelujah Chorus at top volume the minute you clicked on this blog message. The money is in the Bank. I can now relax and enjoy the retirement community without obsessing about my “for sale” trailer home. For the next several days, I’ll concentrate on collecting and pricing more items for the garage sale on Friday and Saturday. Starting next week, I can work toward an attractive apartment rather than “Fibber McGee’s closet.”  (Is anyone reading this old enough to remember Fibber McGee and Molly?)