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It’s grilling season already
I need to uncover, clean, and check the gas in the grill. I’ve been too lazy to do it and if I don’t get it done, it’ll be past grilling season before I know it.
Over the last few weeks, I could’ve been doing most of my cooking outside but the grill needed cleaning. Are you sensing a trend here?
I guess I need more incentive like the arrival of my meat order and those lovely filet mignon that are in it. Yep, once those babies get here I’ll trip over myself to get the grill cleaned and ready to use.
You all have a safe holiday weekend. If you’re traveling, drive with care.
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 3 fully loaded ships.
In 2010, there were 352 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 794 posts. There were 134 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 87mb. That’s about 3 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was January 19th with 102 views. The most popular post that day was Crossing Castle off my list of shows .
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were en.wordpress.com, WordPress Dashboard, Google Reader, croneandbearit.wordpress.com, and alphainventions.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for ampyra, bottom line books, bottom line books scam, dog slave, and potted vegetable garden.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Crossing Castle off my list of shows January 2010
8 comments
Bottom Line books scam part 2 January 2009
16 comments
About Me October 2008
Dog slave April 2010
2 comments
Ampyra authorization June 2010
4 comments
If wishes were horses
Three weeks after I got married my parents, grandmother, and baby sister moved a great distance away. It was a long time before any family moved back to the area.
No family members live here now. When relatives travel, they never seem to get near our area. Our location is sort of like Rhode Island; you only go there if that is your destination.
I have traveled to my father’s old hometown to visit cousins and aunties but it’s difficult to do so as often as I’d like to when I have to do the eight-hour drive alone. DH doesn’t travel well. A long car ride is excruciatingly painful for him. Consequently, as much as he loves visiting my family, he’d rather stay home with the dogs where he is more comfortable.
Therefore, to torture myself, I periodically browse the real estate listings in the old hometown. I love to hit the bird’s eye view when looking at properties close to my family.
Tonight, I went browsing, and spied two houses that I loved. One lovely home was across the road from a cousin’s house. I hit the bird’s eye view and looked for my aunt’s house on the next road. I could actually see my cousin’s horses out in the pasture. [Sigh] The idea of living near loving family brings out a case of the ‘I wishes’ in me.
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