Roll Call

The topics I posted on over the weekend brings to mind how I’ve come to know many of you over the years. The Astoria Rust family has been growing every month. I no longer check stats, but back when I was a stat whore I was getting about 80 unique hits a day.

The earliest readers here were TH and the Cartons. I found Mother of Three and commented on her blog and she returned the favor and I think brought with her one of her readers, Jaggy, Auntie L and I think this is how Mel found Rust as well. Mel brought with her Donna and a new commenter as of yesterday, Loopysandqueen came via Mel or Denise. I don't recall how Denise came here. I may have found her site first. Carrie B seems to have the ability to sniff out a new local blog within minutes of its inception. I think Jeff came here through NCO.

I found Syd at Adrenaline’s Shadow by mistake. She used to use blogger, and one day while logging on to post I saw the name of her blog scroll by on the login screen. I don’t know what it was but the name intrigued me so I clicked on her blog and I’ve returned several times every day since. Syd has become my closest cyber friend. Posting replies on her site got some of her readers to visit my blog as well; Trop, Weese, Bayou, Lachlan, Zoe, Boo7 and Lee. Boo7 readers Trish and Beth then became readers here.

I have no idea how Lori Hahn found me, but she seemed to have brought Mike S along for the ride. I don’t know how Rich found his way here. Matt said he found this blog through Orblogs.com. My stats reported I was getting hits from his site so I looked him up and saw that he linked me.

I found Chantel on Orblogs. She had written a story about a very personal piece of machinery that was broken. I lurked on her site for months before ever replying to something she wrote. I love bloggers who are as open and honest as Chantel. I want to say so much about her and what she writes, but it would be hard writing about her charms without being obsequious or flirtatious.

Moosehead and Gearhead come this way by another association. Robb is my nephew. Thom is a friend in New York State who is married to a lovely woman I dated while in my 20s. There are many readers that read every day and never reply. Some reply anonymously, which is cool.

Through the association of the readers I have 53 blogs that I subscribe to. I get notification when they are updated. So if you are a regular reader and have yet to reply, please do and formally join the Astoria Rust family.