Blog Refresh, Email Subscription Update

I am one who thrives on organization. When Blogger announced it was eliminating Feedburner as its email subscription service in July, I knew I needed to do something before the rush. 

 I am a stubborn control-freak, with a bit of obsessive compulsive behavior as seasoning to my personality.

 I have lots of blogging friends who do this blogging thing for hobby income, full-time income and, to a lesser extent, friends who do it for fun or as a personal journal (like me). 

I've always plodded along doing my own thing since 2013, learning along the way. I found my way through templates, adding photos, noreply-comment, headers, subheadings, gadgets on the sidebar, privacy policy with GDPR (general data protection regulation), etc.

 I have a wonderful blogging friend in Linda Primmer of the blog, Life and Linda. She is also one of my Traveling Tote tribe. Besides blogging, gardening, and tablescaping, another of her many talents is her tech savvy ability, particularly with blogging design and mechanics. She is also known as My Fairy Blogmother. She offered to spruce up my blog a few years back and I declined, resisting throwing any money into my blog. Until now. When this email subscription change within Blogger came up, I knew it would be a pain in the you-know-what to learn and convert to another email service. For those unaware, Feedburner is going into maintenance mode July 2021, which basically means they're ghosting us. Linda wrote a post to help bloggers who prefer self-service like me. I started on it, exporting my email list and even scrubbed it of invalid emails (there were a lot of those!). Linda's post helped immensely, but I had to ask myself the cost/benefit of beating my head against the wall to learn and overcome this newest challenge. I threw in the towel, rolled my change, and asked Linda for help.