Thank you, MB, for scanning it for us - very interesting!!  (Interesting that there was no mention of the possibility of it being haunted - I remember watching the episode of the ghost hunting series when they went there.)

I really wasn’t going to post on this topic any more, but the recent amounts have been ridiculously high.  It goes through stages of going up by, say 5 to 30, for several days, then there will be a lot of days much higher, sometimes over 100.  Then some times it will even jump by several hundreds.  Occasionally, if it’s very high, like more than a thousand, I’ve though of posting, but let it go.  But the last few weeks have been EXTREMELY high.

It’s not always exactly 24 hours, but I usually do it at about the same time, so they are certainly within an hour or 2 of 24 hours.  So, the amounts starting with August 26 have been:

393,483   393,844    398,039   400,883    406,652     408,626    411,380    414,701     429,146

449,295   460,468    477,005    489,020    501,119    516,250    531,463    541,070    562,549

579,611   594,576

The differences between each of these amounts are:

406    4,195    2,884    5,769    1,974    2,754    3,321    14,445    20,149    11,173 

16,537     12,015     12,099    15,131    15,213    9,607    21,479    17,062    14,965

I never did believe that the numbers reflected actual views, but now with these amounts it can’t possibly be.  Jumping by 15 to 21 thousand in one day, every day?  It’s over 200,000 in a little under 3 weeks.

Since the pandemic, our library has stopped getting newspapers daily and it takes a while for the mailed version to get in and processed.  For the New York Times there’s also a site where I can get the full paper online, but that’s always a month behind current time.

So, it was just recently that I came across a wedding article for Kathryn Leigh Scott and Patrick Oster.  It goes into a bit of each of their backgrounds, how they met, etc.  I don’t know if there’s any way to provide a link, but it’s the Sunday New York Times of July 27, 2025, the Style section, page 10.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIDNITE!!!!

Hope it was a really wonderful day!!

         

WELCOME and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SYOUNG!!!

Hope you had a really great time!!

     

Happy Birthday, MAGNUS TRASK!!!

Hope you had a wonderful day!!

       

Very nice, McTrooper!!

Philippe, No, I had never heard of it.  It's a distance from me in an area I'm not too familiar with.  But it's in the same county, so it's not too far.  I looked it up to see just where it is, and I have been on some of the major roads nearby.  I'm hoping at some point to drive by.