Thanks for reading our blog Post # 668

I always say our blog, although I do the writing, Garry usually does the stuff I write about! We started this when we were getting ready to come to Ukraine as missionaries in 2008, to hopefully tell what it's like to live and work as farmers in another country and culture.  When I started writing I assumed mostly our relatives were the only readers. Our kids tell us they don't phone because they always know what we are doing... it's makes it harder for us to find out what they are doing, however. One Ukrainian told me he reads it to find out what North Americans really think about Ukraine. I may not quite be that honest, but I try to do posts about differences in life here, about farming that hopefully both farmers and city folks can understand and enjoy.

One of these is not like the others.... Canadians are never cold!

In May 2010 when the team from Steinbach Manitoba came to help build the barn I started posting more often and set the counter for page views.... we are almost to 45,000 for our page.

I was recently told our page is easy to view on mobile devices, so I guess we are mobile friendly!

Most of our readers are American or Canadian, this past week the Americans are way ahead, but often its Canadians that top the list. We have more Ukrainian hits every year they are always firmly in third place, but this week for example we have Russia, India, China, the UK, Malaysia. Some weeks we even had readers from Iraq.


Our most viewed post ever... 10 Things (we like? love? about Ukraine. 
My favorite? Ten Noisy Things in a Ukrainian Village - from our first summer in the village.

I started the Birds Eye View of the Trade School blog to keep those stories separate from the farming, and life stories as our focus was split in the last year. Occasionally, when I go back, I do stories about what's happening with our family at home in Canada, and the Day on the Farm in Manitoba series was one that gets lots of views.