It’s that time of year when bloggers everywhere are wrapping up their year in blogging. 2015 was a way better year than 2014 was on the personal front, but not so good on the blog front. I’ll quote Jen from My Brown Newfies about her blog, “I got what I put into it and the straight up fact is that I could of put more into it.” That’s true for me as well. There were some days when my heart just wasn’t into it and I’ll own that.
I’d still say we had a successful year. We reviewed some great products and had some really fun and funny posts.
Every year those little WordPress monkeys work their little monkey fingers to the bone putting blog stats together for us. (Okay, it’s probably really a program, and super easy, but it sounds better if they’re working their fingers to the bone, no?) Since I don’t obsess over stats during the year, it’s fun for me to look back and see where the blog did well and where we can make some improvements.
The posts you loved.
We’re Trick Training So You Can Win Treats
You may remember this as Jodi’s unsuccessful attempt to train the dogs to turn the lights on and off. I will remember it as the day I learned how to use iMovie on my Mac. 🙂
With the holidays and all the craziness that goes with it, I haven’t gotten back to training, but it is on my list for 2016 and I’m pretty sure I have a plan to make it work. Stay tuned. 🙂
Styrofoam Coolers, Not Just For Beer
This was my Blog the Change post from last January. It showed step by step instructions on how to turn a simple Styrofoam cooler into a shelter for feral cats.
The bad news is the cooler-shelter is still sitting on a shelf in my rec room, but the good news is I haven’t seen the cat around work, so I’m pretty sure he wasn’t a stray.
Rejuvenate Your Dog With Rejenease
The first review of the year and the supplement that helped get Sampson over the hump from his ACL surgery.
Rejenease
I was thrilled to be able to review this supplement and am so happy that it is helping so many of my favorite dogs in Blogville.
Talk to me.
The post I got the most comments on was In Over My Head.
This was a really hard post to write, because I was so embarrassed over the whole incident and felt that I let my dogs and my readers down. It was hard to share that because I felt very vulnerable. That’s my bad for doubting my readers. I have THE BEST READERS hands down. You all are so supportive and caring and made me feel better about the whole thing. And for the record, I can smile about it now. I can’t quite laugh, but I can smile.
My three top referring sites were:
Twitter, Facebook and Triberr
I’m not surprised about Facebook, because I’m siriusly bad about sharing posts there. I’m confused about the Twitter thing because I thought most of my Twitter posts would be shared through Triberr. Which just goes to show what happens when I think. 🙂
Where are you from?
This little ole’ blog had people visiting from over 122 countries! That’s so amazing to me. Most of our visitors are from the US, Canada and the UK, BUT we did have some from Africa, Australia, Russia and India, just to name a few.
Speak your mind.
I’d like to thank my top commenters, 2 Brown Dawgs, Callie, Shadow and Ducky’s Mom, Emma, Sand Spring Chesapeakes and Jan K!
So that’s the gist of it, which means 2015 is a wrap my friends.
I’d like to thank all my readers and sponsors for continuing to support this blog. I thank you for your friendship and wish you a joyous and Happy New Year.
And remember, if you’re driving, don’t drink and if you’re drinking, don’t drive. See you next year!
Welcome to Thursday’s Barks and Bytes Blog hop hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog. We hope you will grab a badge from one of our websites and join us.
Happy New Year! <3
So honored to be among your top commenters! I’m sure you’re among mine as well; but I haven’t had a chance to check out the stat monkeys’ work yet. I might get around to it on Friday. Have a GREAT New Year’s my friend! And give Sampson and Delilah some hugs and kisses for me!
I gave the Rejenease to my friend whose dog was ancient and had crazy joint problems. She reordered it a bunch of times. It really did improve his quality of life and he was able to resume chasing tennis balls till a week or so before he went to the bridge a month ago.
Congrats on a great year and Happy New Year to you! I guess you are a tweeter supreme…lol.
We’ve been your fans and friends for a few years now, but last year, your Rejenease post is something that will keep you in our hearts forever. Nothing helped Katie for several years, everyone told us she would always limp and drag her paw and not be able to walk much anymore but that post and winning that bottle changed her forever and we are so grateful. Through your blog we also discovered nose work which is our life pretty much these days. We never imagined I would be training to get a level 3 title in 2016! As a blogger we often think we don’t make much of a difference but now and then we get a note from someone about how a post of ours changed a life or helped their dog which is so fulfilling, and your blog has so changed our lives forever. We all just want to hug and hug and hug you…we will let Bailie handle that with her huggles at BlogPaws next time we meet. Cheers to a wonderful 2016 and we look forward to seeing what other life changing ideas you have for us 😉 We learn a lot from blogging, but for some reason, your blog is our jackpot!
Looks like a successful blogging year to me.
Can’t wait to see what you have for us in 2016. Happy New Year, my friend.
Perfect wrap up Jodi! I am so proud of because I know how tough blogging can be sometimes and we just muddle through. I’m heading into 2016 with confidence and you by my side!
Sometimes you have to just sit back. I always enjoy coming here and getting a good chuckle. Happy New Year my friend.
Brilliant wrap up my friend! Glad you had a good year. Happy New Year, and may it be filled with happiness.
Happy New Year!!
Wishing you an inspired 2016.
It looks like you had a really great year. I remember the laughs and smiles you brought to us. The great thing about blogging is that there are no deadlines or pressures to post on a regular basis. Keep writing and i’ll keep reading and happy new year.
Congrats on a great year. I know I’ve sure enjoyed reading about the fur-kids and your adventurers with them. So looking forward to hearinf about more fun from your neck of the woods. Wishing you and the pups a safe and happy New Year. 🐾
We think you had a great year, and we’re happy we were one of your top commenters! I’ll always remember the year as my first BlogPaws conference, and getting to meet you was definitely one of the highlights! ♥
Another great year, Jodi-well done! Thank you for sharing the adventures of life with sweet Sampson and our favorite D-dog. ღ