There's a fella what used to live there named Ansel Toney, and they called him The Kite Man:
"Most anytime you could find Ansel out in his shop grinding away on his lathe, making spools or cutting out patterns for his unique kite string winders. He made the same type of string winders his father showed him how to make, now over 100 years ago."
Work yourself to a bloody stump 18 hours a day for your whole life; I would say that flying kites for the last stretch is a fine way to go out.
Thanks for coming by, Farmland reader.
Photo and story here.
11 comments:
You get 15 readers a day? I'm jealous. I doubt I get 15 a month.
Maybe I should strive to be more interesting. Nah...sounds like work.
Well, BR, if we'd just start screamin' about how eeeevil them libruls are, the readership would pick up. Guaranteed.
Been enjoying all your posts lately Andy. I can never think of anything to put in the comments that doesn't sound a little pointless or worthless.
It's no problem, alison. Comments are nice when they come, and nice when they don't, because maybe that means I've already said enough.
That's about right
Cool story. Thanks for pointing the way to it!
You're most likely correct, Andy. Somehow, I don't think that it would attract the sort of readers that I would find tolerable.
Andy, you get at least one more reader than what Sitemeter shows. I always read your posts in my GoobleReader, and only click in if I want to leave a comment.
So, tally one more for the team.
I get many hundreds of visits a day at my Titanic of a blog. But only about a couple dozen of them are real readers...sometimes more, sometimes less.
Over 95% of them are from web content and image searches. I have an image-heavy failboat, and that drives a lot of traffic that I couldn't care less about.
You're a good writer, Andy. And, a pensive thinker (don't know if "pensive" is the correct term, because I'm ignurnt, but it sounds smart so I'll use it). I always enjoy your posts, and hope that knowledge keeps you posting.
Don't get me started on the image searches. That's like 2/3 of my 15 visits.
What I have noticed: Write more, get more visits. It's funny. Even without anyone linking back, there seems to be some kind of magnetism to new content, and more people show up.
And thanks. All of you.
BR - I think I got a few of my regular readers hooked back when I was doing more scurrilous lefty-bashing. I get fewer comments now, but some of them do keep coming by to read, and that's pretty nice.
Well, BR, if we'd just start screamin' about how eeeevil them libruls are, the readership would pick up.
The flip side of that coin is when you stop the ranting, they go. Ask me how I know. ;-)
I don't know - write a screed on the evil libruls and my traffic stays about the same.
I love readers and commenters; it's what we bloggers are in it for, right?
Then again, just putting my shit out there for whoever to see is enough most of the time.
I still get a little freaked out when I see the same IP address hitting my journal page and nothing else. Stalking - it was a problem with my old blog. So far it's been OK, but I do get obssessive from time to time on IP Locator searches.
Hmmm - WV: fabnats
I'm not saying a thing.
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