• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

I'm gonna throw up I'm so excited

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MY SISTER IN LAW (brother's grlfriend)
IS IN LABOR RIGHT NOW!
9 1/2 cm dilated, almost ready to push.
Holy i don't even know i'm so excited i might throw up. I can't wait to meet her! I can't!
Omg
I have to wait till she starts pushing, then I'm going to the hospital. I AM SO EXCITED!!!!
My first niece! :D
 
Karee, 1 day before labor:
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And beautiful Zoe, weighing in at a ridiculous 8 POUNDS 11 OUNCES!
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Born at 4:00 pm today after 15 hours or so of labor, vaginally.
Today is also Zoe's great-great grandfather's birthday...my great grandfather. He is still alive and didn't get to see it as he's in Louisiana, but he will get lots of photos.
We are heading to the hospital to visit her and hold her for the first time. :)
 
Thank you all so much! I just got back from the hospital and got to hold her for the first time.
She's a "big" baby, but boy, she's still a wee little one. So tiny...I cried when I saw the photos earlier, and I cried again when I saw her in the hospital. Funny, I think I'm more of a baby than she is. But she's absolutely gorgeous. I can't believe in 9 months a miracle like that can be made.
Brandon (the father) was nervous leading up to the birth, pre-parenting nerves. "What if I'm a bad parent," etc.
But I knew he would be a good dad. Though prior to the birth he thought it would gross him out, when it came time and it was HIS baby, he helped deliver the head, and cut the umbilical cord. He held her, and he looked like he'd been a father all his life.
So they're looking good. :thumbsup:
Anyway, I took tons of pics, wasn't there for too long but snapped a lot. She did NOT like the disposable camera with flash--luckily my phone has no flash though. :) She's a very calm little baby, sleeps a lot, no fussing.
But, I'll be uploading the pics here very soon if you'd all like, she is just beautiful. Now I'm nervous that someday way down the line when I have kids, they won't ever be as cute. :)
Thank you thank you for the compliments, I will pass them on to Brandon and Karee.
Brandon's boss is making him work tomorrow so he had to leave. :( He is very sad.
Thanks again and expect more photos in the next few minutes here...
Shellie
 
Thanks! She is very cute.
Here are a couple more photos:
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(I didn't pinch AT ALL in this photo, I was just showing how perfectly plump and kissable her little cheeks are--she is one well-fed baby thus far)
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Here was my gift to Karee, Max's mom helped me make it. It is a "cake" (non edible) made of diapers. We hid things inside it, a cute outfit for Zoe, some baby lotion, diaper rash preventing lotion, etc.
It's really pretty. People in the hospital liked it a lot. :)
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