10 November 2024
It’s time to have fun and I virtually missed it! Fortuitously the crows jogged my memory that …

Seventeen years in the past yesterday, 9 November 2007, I revealed the primary weblog put up of my running a blog “profession.”
As of this morning I’ve written 6,282 articles however not all of them are winners. On the weblog’s anniversary I search for the most well-liked articles within the final 12 months.
One Day Wonders: These Prime 5 posts induced the most important single day surge in viewers. Click on the hyperlinks when you haven’t learn them.
- What Occurs When a Dam is Eliminated? Locks and Dam #3 had been about to be faraway from the Monongahela River at Elizabeth. What would occur? (3 July; 7,265 readers)
- Roost Rings on Radar Watch increasing rings on radar when hundreds of purple martins depart their roosts suddenly. (16 July; 3,446 readers)
- Black Walnuts Amazingly fashionable as a result of it consists of picture and video of FLORY machines sweeping and vacuuming walnut orchards. (23 Nov final yr; 3,121 readers)
- Appalachia’s Mango Ripens Subsequent Month Pawpaws are fashionable! (27 Aug; 2,214 readers)
- Rising From the Deep An outdated bridge and city emerge as Youghiogheny River Lake drops in drought. (23 Nov; 1,860 readers)
Outdated Faithfuls: Which articles steadily collect probably the most consideration? Two articles had greater than 12,000 viewers previously 12 months.
I believe some (perhaps most?) individuals looking for this title had been disillusioned to seek out it’s not a few human invasion. It’s about noticed lanternflies.
This text was a joke in regards to the resemblance of the Devils Tower to a big petrified tree stump. I’m shocked that viewers are nonetheless drawn in yr after yr.
Each day readership hums alongside at 700-800 readers (YOU!) and soars to a brand new file of seven,200 viewers in sudden methods.
Thanks, my readers, in your enthusiasm. I couldn’t have blogged day-after-day for 17 years with out you. And a giant thanks to all of the photographers who let me use your photographs. I’ve made a number of new buddies.
Joyful Fowl-thday, Exterior My Window!

p.s. That is my weblog’s birthday, not my birthday. I’m a heck-uv-a lot older than 17!