Where we are with this blog

We started writing these blog posts in May, 2010 and we did it as a way to communicate with our boating friends and to keep track of all the stuff we were doing to this old Silverton. As we did this we promised ourselves that we would keep it up for as long as we could. We've seen too many blogs that started out with energy and then faded.

Since we started, we've posted 305 blog entries and those had 31,248 page views, meaning that at least that many people looked at the blog, although not necessarily read the post  all the way through.

This cost us nothing (except for our time) and that's thanks to Google, which hosts everything we write and every picture we post. Blogs can make money but ours doesn't. The last time we looked, we had earned $31.05 and we have no idea how to collect that sum. That's not a problem for us because we didn't start this blog to make money.

Blogs aren't as popular as they were. We'd probably get more exposure though a Facebook page but that's not important to us. Silverton34c.blogspot.com will continue to do nicely for us.

About three years ago, we began to post some video as part of our blog. The logical place to host those videos was Youtube, which had been acquired by Google. Youtube was a monster compared to our blog. In no time, we had accumulated 237 subscribers to our Youtube "channel" and they and others viewed our videos more than 890,000 times as of today. Let's face it: our videos are meant for our blog, not for general consumption, but somehow some of the stuff we posted on Youtube got a lot of traffic. One, named "Block Island 2014," garnered a lot of views as did one we did just for boaters like us that was titled "Puppy Pads."

YouTube is a source of big income for a lot of people and our personal email has lately had messages from people who claim they can make us real money with our videos. Sorry, that's not us.

We're happy to continue to post our boat life and during the winter, our off-boat life. That's how we began and that will be the way we will continue to use Google Blogspot.