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Three Years Old!

On October 2, 2011 I started this blog with a post about knitted donuts, long johns and donut holes all saved in a Tim Horton's box.  (In fact I just visited that project over the past weekend!)  Three years later, I am still knitting and writing about those projects as well as other knitting-related items that pique my interest.

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In these past three years 393 posts have been written with 383 published.   (Those drafts will either be used in the future or deleted because even I didn't have enough information or interest in the topic.)  There have been 68,117 page views at this writing with the bulk, almost 75%, being read in the U.S.  The remaining nearly 25% are read here in Canada.  Yes, I have readers from all over the world, but their page views are minimal in comparison.  Many readers now seem to not be using a search engine to find the blog, they are coming directly to it.  (Google gives a blogger all this information daily for free, BTW.)  There were 2,871 page views in September 2014 as compared to my all-time high page views month of 4,964 in October 2012 where it seems a new post was written and posted daily.

I have written here and here offering up the motivation and reasoning behind this blog and nothing has changed nor are there new insights into the enterprise, so there's no need to repeat it.  The hope or expectation that more posts would be produced as I retired has not come to fruition yet.  But perhaps as things settle into a routine here in Canada, that might change.  (Like for instance there are two posts today!)

Tonight will be celebrated with my knit buddies as we resume getting together weekly.  I know these buddies have been busy knitting over the summer and their stories and projects need to be shared here as well.  But don't worry I intend to be celebrating my 3rd Blogiversay all day long!


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