The Challenge: Monetize the Blog

It’s hard for me to believe that, come August 28th, this blog will be 10 years old!

Even though our primary purpose in starting the blog didn’t include making money from it, blogs are, primarily, meant to generate income, to be “monetized,” as they say.

Spoiler Alert: we aren’t turning the blog into a “Pay-for-Play” site. Our blog content has always been, and will almost certainly remain free.

Zeiger Family Homestead donation block

The donation block, our main monetizer, on each of our website pages (Mark A. Zeiger).

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Roof Repairs

We’ve had some big winds in the last month or so, but I didn’t realize how big some of the gusts really were until Aly showed us a photo she’d taken out of the upper story of Shell Cottage. It showed the porch roof below the window damaged by wind.

I saw that I needed to do some roof repairs.

wind damaged porch roof

Wind damage, seen from the hillside beside and behind the cottage porch (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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