Thank you all for your interest in my bees

When I woke up this morning, I found myself looking at statistics on this blog.

• I've kept the blog since April 15, 2006, the day I got my first bees (the Saturday before Easter that year). I am now a little over a month into my fourth year.
• As of today, the 28th of May 2009, there are 365 people who subscribe to my blog through RSS feed and
• An additional 200 people are "followers" of this blog
• I put a stat counter on the blog on May 10 2006. On that day 14 people visited my blog
• Yesterday May 27, 2009, 316 people visited the blog and loaded 574 pages
• Of those, 249 were visiting the blog for the first time
• Since I put the counter on the blog, 103,333 unique people have been here
• Last month I put a "flag counter" on the side bar and in just the past month people have visited this blog from 92 different countries
• I also have a map at the very bottom of the blog showing red dots for the places from which people come and it's fun to see dots all over the world
• The top ten Google search terms that got people to my site last week were:
  

1. Solar wax melter;
   
2. small hive beetle trap;
   
3. mortician bees;
   
4. harvesting honey without an extractor;
   
5. linda's bees;
   
6. hive beetle trap;
   
7. crush and strain honey;
   
8. linda's bee blog;
   
9. hive beetle; and
   
10. small hive beetle

• According to Google analytics, the most popular pages on my site in the last month (as in most months) were:

1. the video on how to use the simple solar wax melter
2. the video on harvesting honey using the crush and strain method
3. the video on building the small hive beetle trap
4. the newbie questions at the beginning of keeping bees
5. what's involved in a hive inspection
6. how to install a nuc
   

Keeping a blog is a commitment I made to myself to force me to keep up with what was happening in my hives in a somewhat organized way. Having so many other people keep up with what I am doing makes it really a lot of fun.

Thank you, everyone, for the interest, the comments and the emails. I hope all of you who are beekeepers are having as much fun and learning as much as I am in the tiny world of the beehive.

Linda T