The "A GREAT BIG THANK YOU TO ALL WHO READ THIS BLOG!!" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Saturday, February 10, 2024, and the weather is slightly overcast with a chance of a few snow showers in the near future.  I had just posted another story to my blog known as "Extraordinary Stories From An Ordinary Guy!"  As I read down over the page after posting my story titled "A Few Strange Things You May Not Know", I realized that there was a special number listed at the bottom of my story.  Number was 1,000,192!!  WOW!!!  My blog has reached 1,000,192 hits!  That's just amazing!  I began my blog on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 after my wife helped me set up the blog on my laptop computer.  She had suggested I start a blog to tell about all the unusual and crazy things that have happened to me in my lifetime.  At first I thought who would ever want to read about things that have happened to me, but it wasn't long before over 100 people had discovered the blog site.  My very first story told about the white rat that my Grandfather had bought for me at nearby Roots Country Market and Auction.  He was the highest bidder for the cardboard box of 7 white rats.  He knew my mom would just ......... well, you probably already read that story!  Well, today is Saturday, February 10, 2024 and the counter at the bottom of my blog is still moving forward!  Amazing!!  Who are all you people out there who have read what I have posted every day of my life since September 2, 2009?  I took up writing the blog after finding that I was becoming restless with nothing to do in the winter months.  I no longer was teaching high school and in the winter months was confined to the indoors quite a bit because of the cold weather.  When I first began the blog I had so many people telling me to write this story and that story.  They told me I had accomplished so many things in my life, many being rather crazy, that someone was bound to find interesting and read it.  Boy! were they right!!  I know that at times my stories tend to all blend together with the same theme to them, but that's just how my life is.  Winter months tend to be rather dull while the rest of the year tends to be exciting and breath-taking!  As I began to write my daily stories, my family had to remind me to write about this event and that happening.  I had a list with about 100 ideas on it at one time.  And, then it began to grow and grow.   Trips to this place and that place and then trips to this island and that island, and etc., etc., etc.  They all had a story about them that needed to be told!  My wife and I have finally settled down at Woodcrest Villas which is a retirement community to the West of Lancaster City.  We are beginning to "Take it Easy!" so we are!  But, I still haven't used up the big list of events and ideas that I had a few years ago.  I have enough of stories to tell that will last me for at least another 30 years or more.  And...what's funny is that the list keeps getting larger.  Sorry to say that I may not get to telling all of those stories!!  But...I'll do my best!!  It has been another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.