Maggie's Farm

.....and then by the late 1990's Ford Motor Co. made an SUV so big people had to but extentions on their garages tp accomdate the behemoth.

Now many of them, having cashed out all the equity once residing in their homes fro big screen TV's and personal water craft are living in the SUV's , having been foreclosed on when gas went to $3.50/gallon.

Ok, allow me to make some totally unsolicited marketing observations.

Your menu is too eclectic to draw an audience of any size. I don't know what your stats look like but I've been around the Farm for awhile and I never see a large number of comments..unless I make 10 and have each of my other personalities make 2-3.

Articles on katydids and other bugs as a lead is unique.

Yeah we had a real hoot with cast iron skillets but that's not gonna draw for very long.

There are probably too many blogs period right now so some shaking out is inevitible. I hope you're not one of them but a routinized weekly helping of 1. a bug 2. an opera/opera singer 3.picture of a lighthosue 4. semi nude girl 5. a wooden boat, is not going to make it against the competition.

You're positioned for an audience with an IQ above 130-140, perhaps a bit lower, but the masses are around 98 and plummetting.

There are huge political issues that could be offered. That puts you head to head with a large segment of the blogshere but it might draw some interesting commentators.

I watched Belmont Club institute a hard core policy that every comment had to be a MBA thesis and boom the numbers dropped off the face of the Earth....lots of those people gravitated to the Elephant Bar but it became a daily forum of slam Bush, slam the war effort, so they now have maybe 10 contrubutors who each make 15-20 comments so I guess they're happy. I do know they use to have a good many more contributors.

A magic formula..I don't have it. These are just my observations on things that I think are interesting to a very small audience ..expand into some controversial political and sociological issues.

The open guitar case while you sing Peter, Paul and Mary songs I don't think will keep your blog above the Mendoza line.

I've told friends about this site. They visit and go back to their bedroom comfy blog because they don't know bugs or opera and could care less about the artistry and craftsmenship of a wooden boat.

Good luck