Bakker Bugle Blog Say it three times fast. In Luxembourgish.

To celebrate the Grand Opening of BakkerBugle.com, this blog would like to announce a new feature:

The Commenter of the Week

On Saturday of each week, Will and Anita will choose the commenter of the week and award a lovely prize. We decided to start giving out prizes because we appreciate the clever and thoughtful responses that you’ve made to this blog. It’s nice to have these little exchanges, and we want to show our appreciation.

And what better way to show our appreciation than to pit you against one another in competition! If our friendships are about anything, it’s one-up-manship. So we’ll announce the first Commenter of the Week tomorrow, on this blog.

Hmmm. I guess I’ll need to add a Hall of Fame to BakkerBugle.com soon.

This blog was supposed to be a minor part of the Bakker Bugle experience online. But the rest of bakkerbugle.com was not ready for prime time. Until today.

The B.B. staff worked overtime this week to create the foundation for the website. The staff will add more content in the next several weeks. But for now, there should be enough to waste a few hours at work.

I especially invite you, loyal readers of this blog, to give feedback and to make comments. Is there anything that you think should be part of the Bakker Bugle empire?

Also, the creation of the main website means that, when you’d like to give the address for this blog, or the flickr photo site, to someone, you can just direct him or her to bakkerbugle.com. There are clear links to here.

I’m still not happy with the visual design of the website. It’s a big project to change that and get it right. Plus, Anita asked that I don’t use my usual, incremental, playing-around method. So you can expect to see a higher quality, more consistent design in early September. At about the same time, we’ll roll out a brochure for our Bed & Breakfast, although you’re welcome to make arrangements before then.

The front page for our website is http://bakkerbugle.com, and www.bakkerbugle.com works too.

Call us, call us anytime. Call us!

Well, we have possession of our 847 phone number — the same one we had for seven years in Gurnee. And it rings here in Dublin. And we have unlimited free talk-time with anyone who calls it! We love Vonage.

So call us anytime you like. If you can, please remember that we are six hours ahead. That is, if it’s six p.m. Central Daylight savings Time, it’s midnight here.