A minor milestone...

...That, we might add, will be boring to most people, but that's never stopped us in the past.

Today, we noticed that there have been a little over 15,000 page views to our blog. That's nothing compared to a commercial website that might log that many page views in a few minutes, but for a do-it-yourself blog by two people who like their boat, it's a lot.

We've written 197 blog posts since October 22, 2009 and to illustrate all the fun we were having, we've taken about 800 photographs of which only 150 or so have actually been posted in the blog.

To be fair, many of the photos were for us to document what we have done to the boat. If you are going to plan some work on your exhaust elbows for instance, it's nice to have good photos of the job site when you are putting together your parts list at home.

Our workhorse camera for all that time has been an Olympus D-360 clam shell point-and-shoot camera that Frances bought for us years ago. It records whatever we point it at, at a now-feeble 2 megapixels. That old camera is scratched and worn, but it still works perfectly and has never failed us.

There is something to be said for a camera that you can simply hold under your engine (or other difficult space to see) and get a great picture of what you are dealing with.

If you run a Google blog, you get access to Google's great record keeping. It enables us to drill down in the stats to see where and when the page views came from, but not who they actually are.

When you think about the fact that Google charges nothing for the server space or the information, it's a great deal.

To document our adventures, we've tried to adhere to posting on Sunday or Monday, when things are fresh in our mind. Sometimes, we update later in the week but we notice that most page views are early in the week, so we try to avoid that.

Our workspace for writing the blog is the one we use for our business. Nothing special here,

unless the left screen is blank and needs to be filled with blog copy. Somehow, that's not been a problem so far.

We get to the Internet via a Comcast Business connection and it works just fine. When we started the blog, we were using an ancient Windows XP computer. Last fall, we built a new 64 bit, Quad core,  Windows 7 computer but that didn't make much difference. Everything works just as it did before.

With all of that out of the way, we'll start on the blog posts that just might stimulate another 15,000 page views.