Joan Y.

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Prepare for Tracking!

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 7, 2009, 9:58 pm
Last winter I found a lot of animal tracks, and everyone seemed to enjoy that a lot. I thought that Maggie and I could get us started for this season of looking for footprints with a little primer of ...
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The Future NCT Hudson River Crossing?

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 7, 2009, 4:02 pm
Delaware & Hudson RR Bridge (photo from CNY Hiker) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! excerpted from CNY Hiking with permission Currently there are no North Country Trail signs, n...
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Michigan Man Rescued from Ill-Advised Arizona Adventure

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 7, 2009, 3:24 pm
Old Siphon Draw Trail (photo by Thee E. Aldriches) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news item from KOLD TV A Michigan man who spent the evening of Dec 3, 2009 stranded ...
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What's New at CMF? I Won $10, That's What!

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 7, 2009, 1:41 pm
I haven't said much about CMF ads for a long time. They are a quiet way to build your blog's reputation. You won't get many actual clicks, but your banner will become well known. They cur...
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Inside the Magic Kingdom?

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 6, 2009, 11:24 pm
Tonight we attended a nice dinner, given by our church, for all volunteers. I'm not doing much these days, but hubby is, so we were invited. Let me first say, that this is not our church building....
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Denied by Pepperjam

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 6, 2009, 10:56 pm
So, in April, I applied to be an affiliate marketer with Pepperjam. I have a friend who is doing well with them, and said they are a good group to work with. I sent in all the paperwork, and waited....
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Monthly Winners!

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 5, 2009, 11:50 pm
There were 3 entries this time, and I guess participation doesn't have much to do with hard or easy, because all 3 people got them ALL right. I think next month we'll have a puzzle of some so...
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Current Reviews at Shared Reviews

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 5, 2009, 12:35 am
My new product reviews in December on Shared Reviews: Safest Stripper Measure All Oh Wilderness! Card Game Serfas Bicycle Pump Portable Lunch Box for Pets Energizer Lithium ViewSonic PJ562 Digital Pro...
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Walking and Writing

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 4, 2009, 9:59 pm
Ellen came, and we did go for a short walk. My stupid leg was too sore to go any farther, and I didn't do it any good. Now I'll have to be really careful for a few days. We ended up just doing...
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Accessible Fishing Piers to Be Built on Manistee River

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 4, 2009, 9:41 pm
if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! a news release of the Manistee National Forest The Manistee Ranger District of the Huron-Manistee National Forest is working in partnership with se...
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Kerfoots Report Hikers Still on Kekekabic Trail

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 4, 2009, 9:16 pm
Sue and Bruce Kerfoot, owners of Gunflint Lodge (photo by JHY) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a Club Outdoors Blog entry by Sue Kerfoot Sue Kerfoot, of the Gunflint L...
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Adgitize Improves Features

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 4, 2009, 2:10 pm
Ken Brown, owner of the expanding and successful blog advertising network Adgitize, has rolled out some new features to reward top users. Preferred Publishers List Improved The Preferred Publishers ...
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First Snow Winter 2009 - 2010

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 9:40 pm
Yup, we finally got snow today. It probably won't last, but it's supposed to continue through tomorrow. The picture on the left is the apple tree outside my kitchen door at 3:30 this afternoon...
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Acme Township (Grand Traverse Bay) Gets Funds to Expand Park

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 8:59 pm
Acme (from Google Maps) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news article in the Traverse City Record Eagle Thanks to Michigan's Constitutionally protected Natural Res...
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KQDS TV Does Spot on Superior Hiking Trail

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 8:16 pm
Gayle Coyer on the SHT (photo a still from the video- click to see video, which will take you to the article site.) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news article at KQ...
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Not Sure I Can Tolerate You-Cubez

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 10:10 am
I signed up just a few days ago at You-Cubez. You can read that post for basic information about You-Cubez. As I mentioned there are two kinds of cash there: cube cash and real cash. I am learning ...
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New Robinson Loop Trail in NY Southern Tier

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 12:11 am
if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! an email from Ron Navik The Robinson Loop trails have been constructed between Swain (access point 3) and Garwoods (access point 4) off the Finger ...
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Large Grant Almost Meets Purchase Price for Saugatuck Dunes

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 2, 2009, 11:18 pm
Denison Dunes(Photo by kmh1967. The author or licensor of this image does not endorse me or my work and their image is protected under an attribution license) if you like this article, click the Bli...
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Nature's Alphabet: P - T

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 2, 2009, 10:36 pm
See Nature's Alphabet K-O See Nature's Alphabet A-E var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" ...
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Did You Know?

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 2, 2009, 8:41 am
Did You Know? web ad income Nov 30 (4 blogs, 2 web sites, writing): Adsense $.03 Adgitize $.72 Project Wonderful $.03 Clixsense $.05 My Survey $.60 Neobux $.04 ______________________ ...
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Contest Day - Win an Ad for a Month!

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 1, 2009, 10:39 pm
Entries received to date - 1 Here's your chance to win an ad for a month on My Quality Day. If you can read the numbers in the poll results graphic, you will see that there is a great disagreemen...
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Quiet Waters Symposium, March 6, 2010

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 1, 2009, 9:05 pm
if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on information from Quiet Waters The Quiet Water Symposium celebrates non-motorized outdoor recreation and a shared concern for our Great Lake...
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Chief Noonday Chapter Builds Stiles

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 1, 2009, 8:31 pm
stile over fence (photo from CND chapter) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! from the Chief Noonday Chapter On the November 14th workday at Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), anoth...
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Google AdSense for Search

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 1, 2009, 11:54 am
... trails there. You earn money only if someone actually clicks on one of the ads served with the search results. Set-up is easy, although you have to do some guessing as to the size of various e...
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Geometer

Joan Y. posted an article on - Dec 1, 2009, 12:04 am
OK, the quiz is going to start tomorrow. I just didn't get it ready today. What I did manage to do is finish an entry for a writing contest that was due tonight. They haven't announced the wi...
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Another EC 15% Experiment

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 30, 2009, 1:02 pm
Today I followed one of the suggestions for again checking the claimed rate of "no more than 15% of your widget impressions." (from EC blog post of Oct 6, 2009.) You will see the results of some of m...
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Maggie's Tips for a Holiday Weekend

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 29, 2009, 10:42 pm
First of all, Maggie says "REMEMBER THAT TOMORROW IS QUIZ DAY! Come back and my mom will ask you silly and unfair questions which you can guess or make up some answers for. And if you win she says sh...
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Map Number to be Added to Posts

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 29, 2009, 5:48 pm
if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! admin note From now on, all posts will also contain this small graphic, with some text following it. That text will be the name and source of the ...
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Signed Up with You Cubez

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 29, 2009, 10:50 am
I signed up with You-Cubez today. The site is a place to create a backlink to your web site or blog. The more your cube is worth, the higher it will be placed, and thus the more likely to be clicked. ...
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Holiday Irony

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 28, 2009, 8:57 pm
Warning! This post will be a little "heavier" than my usual, but the feeling of irony was so strong tonight that I just have to share this story. The Rockettes' Christmas Special was on PBS tonig...
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unɟ ɹoɟ ʇsnɾ - ʇı dılɟ

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 28, 2009, 8:30 pm
˙unɟ ǝʌɐɥ ¡uoıʇɐɔılddɐ ǝlʇʇıl ʎllıs ɐ s,ǝɹǝɥ Flip Text web ad income Nov 26 (4 blogs, 2 web sites, writing): Adsense $.02 Adgitize $.82 Project Wonderful $.02 Chiti...
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Traverse City Turkey Trot Participation Doubles

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 28, 2009, 8:14 pm
if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news article at 9 & 10 News Participation doubled in the 2nd Annual Traverse City Turkey Trot, held Thanksgiving morning. Almost a thous...
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Crown Point Bridge Closed!

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 28, 2009, 7:38 pm
Crown Point Bridge (photo by JHY) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise On October 16, 2009 the states of New York and Verm...
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Does This Bird Have a Brain?

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 27, 2009, 11:22 pm
OK, I've mentioned this bird and/or mate at least twice in the past few weeks. These are terrible pictures, but they do show that I am really seeing what I thought I was seeing. I had to take the ...
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Have I Caught Entrecard Cheating?

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 27, 2009, 12:12 pm
I wrote at the beginning of November about the results of some experimental clicking to see if Entrecard was delivering only the 15% of ads for their system which they claimed. Using the methods that ...
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Castle Rock Restoration Project

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 27, 2009, 10:38 am
ATV damage on the NCT near Castle Rock in Michigan's UP (photo from the HSS chapter) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! from Charlene Dewitt, Hiawatha Shore-to-Shore President...
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A Quiet Thanksgiving

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 10:09 pm
It was a very quiet day here, but good. Outside it was raining- all day! Om and I decided to roast a chicken. We talked about going out to eat, but couldn't really find a local restaurant that wa...
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White Meat or Dark?

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 8:38 am
wild turkeys (photo from e-Nature) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on information from e-Nature Most people really have an opinion about whether they prefer white or dark m...
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The Flaming Morning - Just a Little Late

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 10:26 pm
I wanted to show you this picture the day that I took it. But I got really busy, and decided to post some of the alphabet. Then... would you believe that I couldn't find it? Duh! I looked on all ...
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Chitika Research Says 2% of Users Pay for Internet

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 9:06 pm
Chitika is an online advertising broker which is based on searches performed by internet users. Publishers receive compensation when an advertisement is actually clicked on. They report 60,000 sites a...
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Fighting the Gray - Memories of an Ohio Spring

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 10:57 pm
Today was warm, and I did some more outside work, but talk about gray and dismal! I was looking through some older photos to add to a post on the North Country Trail News blog, and was reminded of how...
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Results of the Adgitize Click Style Poll

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 10:49 pm
Here are the results of the poll which asked people to note how they tended to click on Adgitze Ads. It ran for two weeks, and there were 44 voters. The poll records "44 votes," but this is bad seman...
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Tar Hollow - Ohio Spotlight

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 3:49 pm
(photo by JHY) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news release of the Akron Beacon Journal Tar Hollow State Forest in south-central Ohio is often overlooked in favor of...
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A Pixie Hiding in My Grass

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 11:09 pm
Wow, oh wow! These cute little lichen are not new to me, but I sure didn't know that I have them in "my kingdom." But this week I mowed all my paths to get them cleaned up for skiing before the s...
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Get Outdoors - Get Vitamin D

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 9:15 pm
vitamin D molecule (from Wikipedia) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news release of Oregon State University Recent research continues to show that people are not getti...
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Assessing My Income Opportunities

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 8:00 am
Well, I found out Friday that I am losing my best web site client. They want to go with a completely database driven site, and I don't have the software to do that. Sigh. I need to look at poss...
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Parks Will Remain Open on State Furlough Days

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 8:56 pm
if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news article at Flint Journal One method the legislature has devised to help balance the state budget is that six furlough days will be m...
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Manlius NY Couple Wins FLTC Clar-Willis Award

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 8:41 pm
Bill and Anne Brosseau (left) with Jon Bowen (photo from ADK Mountain Club) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a news article in the Syracuse Post-Standard The Clar-Will...
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Are e-Readers the Next Hot Outdoor Gift?

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 8:50 pm
... This year Patagonia began shipping a water-resistant nylon case for the Kindle 2. College bookstore managers expect that e-books will become standard issue at universities over the next five ye...
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Trail Connected Chippewa to Itasca

Joan Y. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 8:09 pm
Jerry Trout on new boardwalk (photo by JHY) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! guest post by Jerry Trout November 19, 2009 at 3:20PM is now a historical moment. The North Country...
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