No just typing in and following along with Keith's video on homepage settings. His video has the words he typed in and a green line with the word count

It's probably so far back in the lessons you don't remember :-)

You mentioned home page settings. Are you referring to
WordPress Backoffice -> settings-> general for Site title and Site description or do you have an actual page called Home..

This is where I'm at, see attached

You got it right, that's where I am. Way back yonder!!

Where it says Characters=0 it doesn't count what's in the field. But when I click on it it shows a green check mark which then disapears.

Yes I see the 0. So what happens if you save the description you typed. Does it Save it and give you a count then. You are supposed to be able to have around 160 characters.

Nope, If I hover over Character, it says "click to change counter type" When I click it there is a small blue wheel that goes round and round and then a green check mark appears next to the 0 then disappears.

That's good information, but I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong to not get a word count. I wonder if the green check mark means it's OK and the word count is not used anymore?