From Almost 30,000 to Nearly 138,000 Views

From Almost 30,000 to Nearly 138,000 Views — What a Journey

By Kim and Nigel November 10, 2026

Two years ago, 30,000 views felt incredible. Today, NowDix is approaching 138,000 views, with 511 posts, 305 comments, and readers visiting from around the world. Still walking, still writing, and very grateful. 🐾❤️

It is November 10, 2026, and I had to look at the number more than once.

137,913 all-time views.

That is close enough to 138,000 that I am going to stand back and be amazed for a moment. 😊

In November 2024, I wrote about this blog being almost at 30,000 views. At the time, that seemed like a huge number. Now, two years later, the total is more than four and a half times what it was then—nearly 108,000 additional views.

I certainly did not expect that.

The graph is especially surprising. For years, the line moved along slowly, with a few bumps here and there. Then 2026 arrived, and the line suddenly climbed as though it had somewhere important to be. There have been months with thousands of views and days when hundreds of pages have been opened.

When I took these screenshots, Blogger showed 701 views today and 747 yesterday. This month is already at 6,511 views, compared with 8,164 during all of last month.

I still find it strange—in a good way—to think about that many visits.

This blog now has 511 posts and 305 comments. Five hundred and eleven posts sounds like a lot when I put it that way. It is more than five hundred little records of life: walks, weather, dogs, books, food, exercise, family, thoughts, good days, difficult days and all the ordinary things that somehow become worth remembering once they are written down.

The comments mean a lot too. A view is a number, but a comment is someone stopping for a moment and joining the conversation. Thank you to everyone who has done that. ❤️

It is also fun to see which posts people have been opening lately. Posts such as “Tim and dog,” “Tuesday walk,” and “Tuesday fun” are among the recent popular ones. I like that some titles are thoughtful and some simply say exactly what happened that day.

That is probably a fair description of this blog too.

Some days there is a bigger story. Other days it is a walk, the temperature, a cup of tea, something Dixie did, a thought that arrived while I was outside or a moment with Kim that I wanted to remember.

They all become part of the same story.

The countries in the statistics may be the most amazing part. Canada leads with about 28,500 views, followed by the United States with 20,200. But then there are 11,000 from Vietnam, 9,510 from Singapore, and thousands more from Germany, China, Hong Kong, Brazil, France, Finland, Mexico and many other places.

There are views from Bangladesh and India, the United Kingdom and Iraq, Romania and Argentina, Colombia and Pakistan.

That is quite a journey for a blog that so often begins with putting on a jacket, getting Dixie ready and going outside. 🐾

I know the statistics cannot tell me the full story of every person who visits. Still, I like thinking that somewhere in Canada—or Vietnam, Singapore, Germany or one of those many other countries—someone found a post and spent a little time here.

Maybe they arrived through Facebook. Maybe they searched for something on Google. Some came from Goodreads, and many arrived from places simply grouped under “Other.” However they got here, I am grateful that they did.

The technology list is interesting too. People have opened the blog using Windows computers, Macs, iPhones, Android phones and Linux machines. Chrome leads by a huge amount, followed by Safari and Firefox.

Different countries, different computers and different routes—but somehow they all found their way to the same collection of walks, photographs, memories and thoughts.

I still think of myself as Nigel Shenton—Reader Writer.

I read because I am curious. I write because it helps me hold onto the days. The blog lets me look back and remember where we walked, what the weather was doing, what I was thinking and how life was changing around us.

The views are exciting, but that record is the real value for me.

A blog does not have to be perfect to matter. Sometimes it only needs to be honest enough to capture a day before the next one arrives.

So here we are: nearly 138,000 views, 511 posts, 305 comments, and a readership reaching much farther than I ever expected.

Thank you to everyone who has read one post or fifty, left a comment, followed a link from Facebook, found the blog through Google or simply wandered in from somewhere I will never know.

Thank you for coming on the walks, meeting the dogs, sharing the ordinary days and continuing this adventure with us.

In 2024, almost 30,000 views felt enormous.

Today, nearly 138,000 feels almost unreal.

But the best part is still the same: getting outside, noticing something worth remembering, coming home and writing it down.

Still walking. Still reading. Still writing. And still very grateful. 😊🐾

—Kim and Nigel