Just keep on doing whatever it is you are doing.

Weekly view count numbers are up, way up all thanks to the mysterious US enclave of folks looking at something(?) From the archives, but I don’t know what. Maybe I’ll get a few more pennies of ad revenue, always good for a laughter to see the 0.01 for a busy month. Ad blockers, they really do work! Not in my favour mind you, but eventually it’ll hit a threshold and I’ll get a notification for a single dollar. Or they’ll up the minimum and I’ll be chasing that passively for another decade. I’d love to know if it was for the short stories, but my miniature war gaming builds are pretty popular as far as my stuff is concerned.

I do in a year what others get in a slow morning, so not exactly a high traffic zone. I do get notifications when views exceed 43 in a day, as that was my previous high traffic milestone for a single day. Yeah – I know, I’m famous. Ha! It could be the resin kit stuff, the painting of my sculpted #supersculpey busts, or my VF-1 build up & air brushing article. Whatever it is, I don’t know which thing is drawing their attention. Perhaps one day I’ll find a widget on the back end that will tell me what drew all that attention in the first place.

I once had a mash up image of James Marsden and Vladimir Putin do numbers because it got picked up by a college humor listicle. That was pretty awesome. My mr Bean-Un mash up was popular for a while. And a few things I wrote about Harginger Down (a Matt Winston /ADI) practical effects kickstarter movie did well, and get views every so often.

Saturday is here, the weather is nice enough for now, and we’ve got some landscaping planned to do at the in-laws for the morning. Mostly shaping shrubs, bushes & ornamental trees with a side of  pulling thistles and other such prickly weeds. Watch out for those chemical burns. Not fun. Not fun at all.

I think I’m done here as far as tree pruning.  All of our decorative shrubs died off ages ago, so I don’t do much shaping with a hedge trimmer here. The back hedge gets touched up every so often. Top one year, outer face the other, back and forth year after year. Handy to have a corded unit that is so light weight. It gets tiring to wave that thing around over your head trying to straighten up a nine foot tall hedge. I will say this, after trimming the top 4-6 ft off, the ice storms didn’t make the hedge bend over or lean this winter, so as stark a difference as that trimming made, it worked as intended.

I checked the apple trees for any sign of fruit for this year and bubkis, so I did a very thorough pruning job yesterday. The cherries are out, and I just trimmed the really low lying stuff that chest height. I’m not opposed to leaning down to mow under a branch, but I don’t want to hunch or crawl under anything. So the limbs that make me have to do that got the axe yesterday. Satisfying to finally make the change.

Anyway, have a great Saturday. Ciao Bella!