Like a Wise Old Cow
I had a surprise on Friday morning related to my Aloe-Vera-and-Handy-Herbs.com web business. Back last July I had put a feedback form on the site so people could write me with suggestions and questions. I had expected these messages to come to me via email, as they do on all my other sites. But all this time nothing had come through to me. It’s an SBI site, and that’s the cat’s meow, the creme de la creme of all sites, so I was puzzled.
Maybe I had not enough interesting pages yet, or maybe not the right visitors were coming - although the STATs indicated that I was getting 71 visitors a day in April, or 2131 for the month. (These STATs climb every month)! Well, I’m still learning the how-tos so it had to be my fault, but being busy with all my other projects, and only working on this one on Friday mornings, I tended not to worry about it too much.
Well, last Friday I went to the SBI Central to see about putting up some sort of subscribe form or setting up a mailing list, and then offering my new Herbal Teas e-book as a reward for signing up. Before I got to that I spied a button marked Form database. Hmmm?
What’s that?
I clicked on it and discovered that here was a database accessible as records or a spreadsheet or a list, and it had 18 responses to my feedback form. Some of those responses were as old as July 17, and some as recent as a week ago!
Well, what d’you know! I read these messages and found some great questions, treating me like an expert, and some fine compliments on my site too.
I spent the rest of that morning answering those messages, starting each with an apology for the very belated answer. Before I was all done at 3 p.m., in the afternoon, I was already getting some good replies from some very understanding folks.
My Gr’ma Kroeker had a proverb or saying about being as wise as an old cow and still always learning. I identify with that cow right now. 
Barbara, one of the regular readers, wrote last week to say she too was raised by other mother figures. I bet that’s true for at least ten more.