Happy New Year, 3546th Post: "Mother of All My Blogs"

This blog just finished seven years and now starting the eighth. It was my secind blog and grew out of when I was unable to get the original blog, RoadDog's RoadLog Blog up on the home computer after I got home from Nashville.

This one was to be about anything and everything I found of interest outside of old roads.

I post more entries on this one (now 3546) than any of the others and it is mostly about what I'm up to and music.

This one is the mother of all of my blogs other than the first one. As I found myself writing a lot about certain items, I spun those out as new blogs: Cooter's History Thing, Saw the Elephant, Running the Blockade, Tattooed On Your Soul and Not So Forgotten.

I Need to Find a Better Use for My Time, But I Sure Enjoy It. --RoadDog

1001 or 998?

My Blogger Dashboard listed the last entry as number 1000. However, the count on the blog page, when added together, came to 997, now both one higher. I am not sure of why this is.

The blog page, before this one, counts by year:

2007-- 299
2008-- 430
2009-- 268

Regardless, that is a lot of posts.

I've Got to Find a Better Way to Spend My Time. --RoadDog

1000th Post!!

This is my 1000th post. Who'd have figured when I started it back in 2006, that I would still be doing this.

However, I have been keeping a journal since 1978, so imagine that if I could go that long, this isn't much of a problem.

This blog more or less started as a result of my having problems getting into my first blog, http://roaddogsroadlog.blogspot.com. This one is about old roads and my travels. My niece Andrea, helped me get started while visiting her and my nephew in Tennessee back in 2006.

When I returned home, I really had problems getting into that first one. While experimenting, I accidentally came up with this one. At first, it contained not only what I was doing and music, but also history and Civil War items I found of interest.

I've since started two more blogs on those subjects. The history one has become about 80% on World War II, and is at http://cootershistorything.blogspot.com. The Civil War Blog is at http://sawtheelephant.blogspot.com.

Will There Be a #2000? --RoadDog

Happy New Year!!!

First off, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.

This being my 300th post after starting this blog in May, 2007. This one was only started because I couldn't get to RoadDog's Roadlog blog and I was testing blogspot to see what I should do.

I currently have four blogs on blogspot and will add another one this month.

This one, is more about me and stuff I'm up to. The other three are about roads, history, and the Civil War. The new one will be about historic preservation. I tried one on Illinois preservation on Yahoo, but can't get it and like the choices we have on blogspot a lot better.

Other blogs:

http://roaddogsroadlog.blogspot.com about roads and my travels. Also preservation right now. Preservation is an important word for us roadologists.

http://sawtheelephant.blogspot.com about the Civil War.

http://cootershistorything.blogspot.com about, what else, but you-know-what. This is my newest one, only starting last month.

Too Much Bloggin', Not Enough Action. --RoadDog

New Blog: Cooter's History Thing

Last Friday, I started my fourth blog here at Blogspot. This one will be devoted to history. I've been trying to clear stuff out of RoadDog's Roadlog and keep that devoted to roads and travel.

This one will be called Cooter's History Thing blog.  It will cover anything history not related to my other blogs.  Why Cooter?  Why not?

I've established one on the Civil War as well as this one.

http://cootershistorything.blogspot.com -- HOMI- History of My Interest--the new one.
http://roaddogsroadlog.blogspot.com
http://sawtheelephant.blogspot.com --Civil War

Definitely Blogging Way Too Much. --RoadDog

New Blog--Cooter's Illinois Preservation Alley

I have too many items in my RoadDog's Roadlog Blog and am "farming" some of them out to other blogs.

Last month I started a Civil War one http://sawtheelephant.blogspot.com/ .

Last night, I started one on Yahoo 365 that will feature preservation here in Illinois. So far I've only had one posting, and that is about Pearl Harbor, which I posted on all the blogs.

You can go to this new one at http://360.yahoo.com/cootersillinoispreservationalley .

(July 22, 2019--  This one didn't make it,but the Civil War one is still there with current postings.)

Getting TOO Hooked on These Blogs. --RoadDog   That is an understatement.

New Blog: Saw the Elephant: Civil War

This morning I established a new blog, this one to cover my Civil War musings. Before, I was doing them at my RoadDog's Roadlog Blog, but am trying to narrow its focus. I'll probably start another one on historical matters as well, but at a later time.

Today, I made three entries regarding Fort Fisher, the place that got me interested in the Civil War.

I named it "Saw the Elephant"-- Civil War Musings. In Civil War times, seeing the elephant meant that a soldier had seen actual warfare with the bullets and cannonballs flying.

You can check it out at http://sawtheelephant.blogspot.com

Just One More Thing to Spend Too Much Time On. --RoadDog