Today I figured out how to reclaim the old Blogger templates if I want them. It’s an option at the bottom of the TEMPLATES > HTML page. I’m still nervous, though. The new Google versions of the templates are what newcomers to Blogger get automatically, so I’m convinced Blogger is eventually going to phase out the old templates. It’s safest to get the texts saved to Appleworks just in case. More work. Nothing is easy. Am I getting signals that I’m doing something I shouldn’t be doing? At least I learned that I can use a trick I invented myself to rearrange the order of the entries on Word Press, so I’ll be able to start with January 1st.

The new Google version of Blogger has redone itself in ways that make me nervous. I tried an update template so I could add some elements to the sidebar, and I don’t like the way the entries print now. A short one takes three pages! So now I’m not comfortable using Blogger for my Naturalist’s Almanac, but I’m not completely happy with WordPress either. At this point I guess I’ll keep posting to Blogger, but I’ll save all the posts, including the full Web addresses of the links, to Appleworks documents and keep them on file in case I need to do the whole thing over again on WordPress. I’m exhausted and exasperated.