Holy Crap!

I was having trouble getting videos loaded directly into my posts a month or so ago, so I decided to create an obscure YouTube account, upload a short video to it, then link to that video inside a blog post.

And it worked!

Except I discovered that unless the YouTube and Bogger accounts are linked, it's nearly imposible for a beginner like me to find my YouTube video from Blogger in order to link to it.

To resolve that problem I had to upload videos to my Google-linked YouTube account then my Google-linked Blogger account could find them.

I'm still playing around with the whole video thing and hope to include more of them in future blog posts.

All the above is to provide context for what comes next.

That tree on the far left was a scraggly, knee-high, sickly little stick that got stepped on a few times when we built this wellhouse.

Yesterday I went into the wellhouse to check on the water pressure. When I finished checking the gauge (it was fine which means I have 'sand' clogging up the kitchen faucet again) I turned and right there next to my shoulder, as in 12 inches away, was a good sized snake all coiled up on top of the filter-bracket.

I went back later and filmed this short video

and posted it. No links, no effort to get it seen, just uploaded. That was 24 hours ago.

The Holy Crap part is that in one day's time, one circuit of the (24 hour) clock, that 1 minute video has over 1400 views!

The vast majority of my blog posts, including those that have been sitting there cooking for 10 years, have less than 150 hits. (as I write this my latest post 'Signposts', has 29 hits after cooking for 3 days)

But I don't see myself switching over to that world anytime soon. I'm a crap videographer, haven't figured out how to edit those newfangled moving pictures at all, and have no interest in plastering my face all over the forever ether.