Perambulation
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 3:56PM
rebecca in bloggy business, family, real life
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June Recipe Round Up?
If there’s someone willing to host the Recipe Round Up for June, there’s still time to have one. Or maybe it would be better to take a summer break. What say you all?

This Week’s Stat Stuff 
I don’t look at my blog stats much, and by that I mean that I often go a month or two between peeks at them. I used to care about my stats, but not anymore. I know that enough people read what I write to make my blogging worthwhile. What more do I need to know?

One big advantage to not looking at my stats is that then they don’t dictate how I do things here. What I put up on this blog reflects either what I enjoy or what I think is valuable (and sometimes both) and I’d like it to stay that way.

Today I looked at my stats and found something that made me want to investigate things a little more. Most often, the top individual pages for the past week on a blog will be the most recent posts. (When it comes to blogs, out of sight really does mean out of mind.) Not so at this blog during this week. Five out of the top ten pages here are older posts.

moving10.1.jpgPlans for Summer 2008
Oldest son will be moving into his own place on June 15 (and oldest daughter has gone back to Vancouver), so soon it will only be youngest son and I (and three pets, too) here at home. We’re not sad because we’re predicting that, just like his younger sister who has already moved out, he’ll be here daily to eat.
 
Also on our agenda is installing lots of new windows. My house was built in 1950 and many of the windows are original. They are in good shape, most of them, but energy efficient they are not. So I’m getting new ones, installed by my son the glazier as soon as they arrive. That means I’ll be doing a lot of painting this summer and fall.
 
My son tells me that I can’t expect these new windows to last as long as the old ones. Pity.
 
This Year’s Garden
I planted only half the garden space this spring. If youngest son goes away to school in the fall, it’ll be just me and the pets, and the pets don’t eat vegies.  Except for the dog, that is, who loves ripping pea pods from the vines and crunching them. 
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