Entry #1 + Self generated Meet Sandy

     I have read several blogs and think blogging can be useful in several ways. It can make readers become familiar to a company or charitable cause. Blogging can also let the people in the blogger's life be aware of what's happening in the blogger's life on a regular basis. The corporate blog of McDonald's was my favorite.It was very informative and had good use of pictures to keep the reader engaged. The links to divisions in the company were easy to navigate, and gave me a new appreciation of the company's commitment to the environment. The Google Blog was well written as well. The blog that disappointed me was Best Blogs by Ken Levin, it gained my interest in the small description of the blog, but did not have a link to the blog itself. I did like the drop down menu of related blogs like, Blogs We Could do Without: however, again, no links to the actual blog. Blogs can be a medium to reach new audiences that may not read newspapers or magazines. Blogs have an immediacy that paper print lacks and therefore, may be more appealing to computer users around the world.


 Self Generated Entry #1 Meet Sandy


   Hi, I'm Sandy. I live in Glendale, AZ with my two dogs, Harley and Willy. They are good company to me and I feel safer having two large dogs in the house. They are the first thing any visitor sees when I open my door. Little do people know, the only danger Harley and Willy pose is licking people to death. Shh! Maybe if I could have someone dress up as a cat bugler, they might present  a danger of chasing the bugler away. Otherwise, my two companion dogs are lovers, not fighters.

Willy, a standard Poodle



Harley, an Akita

  My hobbies include gardening, riding my motorcycle and reading. I enjoy growing roses. I have ten bushes. My favorite is Brigadoon.  It is a hybrid tea rose that smells as beautiful as it looks. It has a cream center with strawberry colored edges to the petal. I love roses. I have planted a mixed bouquet. The only color missing is blue. The cut roses in a vase on my kitchen counter are an ever changing palette of color.

 I also grow tomatoes. I have never tasted a sweeter tomato than one grown in Arizona's alkaline soil.While I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky my father would plant at least ten tomato plants. When I moved to Arizona I continued the tradition. Since we have a different growing season from Kentucky, it is a topic of conversation between Dad and me. I once nursed  tomato plants through our brutal summer and they bore fruit until the next summer. The fruit was smaller but just as sweet. In Kentucky the frost kills the plants so I wanted to see if it was possible to have them for two years. My Dad was interested in my experiment with them. We both learned something new about tomato plants.
  I also ride a motorcycle, one with three wheels and a V8 engine. Every one is hand made in Dyersburg, Tennessee. The make is Boss Hoss and the model is a '57 Chevy Belair. It has an automatic transmission and is very fun to drive. Driving it is not scary at all, although it looks like a monster bike, it drives well. It drives the same at 35 mph. as it does at 125 mph. I found that out the first time I drove it.

That's me in the "queen" seat, commonly referred to by a vulgar name.
 I now sit in the driver's seat.





    The Reason I go to Glendale Community Collage

I am going to Glendale Community collage to become a nurse. I have the rare opportunity to address and hopefully correct the life long regret of not continuing my education. I enjoy going to school and meeting students of all ages. I am interested in people, I love chatting with just about everyone. I am grateful  for the opportunity to further my education. I like to make each day productive. Going to school fills that want for me.
I have found the most useful tool to my blogging, spell check!