Left Coast Cowboys

It’s not perfect. It’s not done. (It will never be “done”.) But I’m now officially cutting the ribbon on the newest incarnation of my blog. I’ve made what Mao used to call A GREAT LEAP FORWARD. Which involved nearly ruining my eyes and my sanity trying to teach myself Wordpress, HTML, CSS and all that other geeky stuff.

All I can say is “Thank God for Plug-ins”. What a concept: some geek who has forgotten more coding than you will ever know generates all the behind the scenes coding you need to make something happen on your website. You just need to install it, activate it and watch it work. But I digress.

Now that I have a brand spanking new website with my very own domain name, the next step is to start blogging more regularly. And do I have a lot to say. Things are heating up on the composting front (Hee. A little composting humor there.) Our fruit trees and titchy tiny organic garden are bearing fruit. And threatening to take over the world if our melons have anything to say about it. Finally, our most ambitious recent project is completely overhauling our workflow and technology for the grape crush. Which should happen within a month. The exciting thing is that this year, for the first time, we will be making wine with our very own Two Terrier Vineyards grapes. Stay tuned. The excitement is just beginning.

 No, I haven’t dropped off the side of Sonoma Mountain. I’ve been struggling to teach myself WordPress (and by default CSS and HTML since you seem to need a grasp of it to do anything in WordPress.) The occasion is what I thought would be a migration to this, my own named domain. However, the whole process is taking more blood, sweat and tears than I’d imagined.

Especially since I went out and got myself an iPhone in the midst of all this, so there’s another learning curve.

Anyway, I’m sort of between two worlds: trying to keep my blogger-based blog going while migrating to the new domain and platform.

Keep dropping by http://leftcoastcowboys.com to laugh at my efforts. And start laying bets that I’ll never get this up and running before I leave for Beijing. I was hoping to be a blogging fool there, but it may not be in WordPress at this rate.