Blog hits

One of the features of this blog site I enjoy is seeing the places where my blog is attracting hits. I know the persons at most locales but several I wonder about. Last week I had a hit from some place in India. I don't believe I know anyone there and I've never been there.
The hit I really enjoyed seeing was from Auckland, New Zealand. I was in Auckland in July on the day that John Walker of Auckland won the metric mile at the 1976 Olympic games in Montreal. We had just flown in from Tahiti and it was like going from summer to late fall or winter (southern hemisphere). Auckland is a large city but you could have fired a canon down any street and not hit any moving thing, not even a wooly. After the race horns blared in the streets. We watched part of the closing ceremonies in a pub on our way to Wellington. Kathy, our friend Mike, and I went into a pub, had a beer, and watched the telly. We kept getting strange stares. Apparently women (the Sheilas) don't go into pubs. I guess they wrote us off as Americans because they served us but kept one eye on us in case we did something else strange. Here's at you, mate, in Auckland. Return if you wish.

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OK one from the calendar.
July 28 "You might be a Redneck if.... Your answering machine greeting begins 'If yer callin about the money I owe you....."