Weekly pic: Buster, a Dexter Rat Terrier
This little blog registered just over 9000 readers last year. A couple of the top posts for 2019 were from previous years (the Great Divide and Using the Odd Bits). That latter one is a bit of a mystery. It clearly shows up somewhere on the internet and gets at least one or two daily viewings (it was #12 on the all-time list).
Overall, I’m pleased to see some of my favorites from last year were read and presumably enjoyed. And the same can be said for the list covering “all time” top posts.
Thank you all for sticking with me and the varied topics that strike my interest.
Happy New Year!
2019 Top Posts
- The Readings Gone By
- Walking Away From Facebook
- The Memory Keeper
- Using The Odd Bits: Beef Cheek Pastrami
- A Great Divide
- I’m Sorry for Your Loss
- Treading Water
- A Peace and Ponce Christmas
- Saying Grace
- Would-Be Farmers: A Few Things to Know
Top Posts of All Time
- A Great Divide
- Small Town Resilience
- The Steen’s Syrup Republic
- Speaking of Death Speaks of Us
- The Life Before Dawn
- The Farm Breviary
- The Readings Gone By
- Thoughts of a Modern-day Slaveholder
- Walking Away From Facebook
- The Memory Keeper
Worst Received Posts of All Time
- Jack Frost
- Husbandry
- Drought, Rain and Death: a normal week on the farm
- A Fall Update
- The Junk Drawer
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Reading this weekend: Seamanship: a voyage along the wild coasts of the British Isles (Nicolson)
As a new follower of your blog I read all the posts that you displayed in this post. The 2019 top posts, the All Time top posts, and the Worst Received.
I thought they were all enjoyable reading. Many of them even struck home with a thud, ahem, WALKING AWAY FROM FACEBOOK comes to mind.
I think the posts that you listed as Worst Received just happened to be posted on the days your readership was visiting Aunt Iris, down with a bug, out wrestling a steer to be castrated, or in town perusing the aisles of Home Depot or tractor supply. Just sayin’.
All in all, reading them reaffirmed to me that my time spent here is of value. Thanks.
All the best from my drippy, slushy, muddy, mountain in North Idaho,
TeresaSue
Aw, shucks, kicks dirt. Thanks, TS.
I realize you’ve got plenty of ideas for your weekly musings. And I wouldn’t be hurt if you showed me the path to back 40… but the vision of a Brown Swiss Cow standing at the intersection of Broadway and Parson’s with a carboard sign around her neck announcing:
“Will work for hay” – Elsie
Well… it just caused a knot to swell in my throat. Capitalism can be too mean. Could a post on the state of the American milkshed be wished for?
https://www.bordendairy.com/meet-elsie/
Most of the small dairies in our valley have closed in the past few years. I on the other hand was polishing up a piece on a farmer’s sartorial style in hats. Just trying to stay relevant.
Hmmm… perhaps Elsie’s difficulty is reflected in her lack of a hat. Relevance just might be where you find it. Polish away.
Happy New Year!
Which in a way begins today, with the fridge finally cleared of sweets and the first shipping of scionwood on its way to take their place – brought forward due to the mild weather.
No more idleness – step forward, strike at little twigs, fail at grafting, do it again, nevermind the bollocking!
Anything you are particularly excited to be grafting this year?
Oh, the sheer variety. Dozens of varieties. And how well my plan of planting ahead of the heat curve is going to work out, i.e. choosing fruit accustomed to this amount of sunlight (and more) instead of those prone to suffering and dropping early.
What is the breakdown on fruit trees planted? Number of apples, etc. etc.?
This year it’s about 65 apples (though that could still increase, depending on my sources) and two pears, plus berry fruit.
I’m quite limited for space and so have to concentrate on apples, with pears fitting in at the edges where some of them will be allowed to get as large as they ever want to.
The plan is to have harvestable dessert apples July to November and cider fruit September to about December (plus all the other kinds of fruit before and in between).
Impressive, Michael. Time to start the “Michael’s Orchard” blog.