Spring Cleaning at the Blog

Got the Spring Cleaning Bug and am making some changes to my blog look ... please bear with me as I figure this out.  Seems that each time I want to do a little changing, it takes me forever because I've forgotten what I've learned about HTML and then so many updates have occurred that I'm 'behind the times.'  But, change was needed ... it was still snowing on my blog this morning and the snow is gone in real life...