Hello, All!
It's been a while! Unfortunately, our special needs daughter has been exceedingly ill again
for the past five weeks, so I’ve done little besides take care of her. In between
I make trips out of state to take care of my elderly mother. So. Been sorrrrta busy.
The good news is Rebekah appears to have turned the
corner and I believe is beginning to come out of this. We have been through it before. It was awful
then – and is awful now. Many have been
praying and we have two wonderful doctors working hard to help her.
In the meantime - as for my YouTube videos. Who knows WHAT is going on? The FTC COPPA
ruling has put so many in tailspins trying to determine what on earth qualifies
as ‘made for children.’ Their terms are so broad and vague, it seems few if any
clearly know. Me included. The threat of
Forty-Some THOUSAND dollar fines PER VIDEO would absolutely ruin most creators,
certainly myself included. Somehow, we
must read through all the legalese and try not to make a mistake in labeling
our content.
My videos are made for a general audience, not for
children. Looking at my analytics provided to me by YouTube, it shows over the lifetime of my channel 95%
of my audience fall under the 18 and over category, with 5% falling in the
13 to 17 age group. That is over the lifetime of my channel. And I most
certainly do not collect personal data on anyone. I wouldn’t even know how. So I BELIEVE all is well. My videos are not and were not created for
children, and my audience analytics provided by YouTube reflect that.
So. MOVING on.
We have just finished Thanksgiving here in the U.S. and
are now full into the Christmas season. No Christmas letter this year. When Rebekah is ill, my life pretty much
upends and stops until she is better.
On another note, needless to say ALL of my 14 beautiful heritage
bronze turkeys are still out there wandering about my yard and pasture. For Thanksgiving dinner we instead bought a
nameless frozen turkey of questionable heritage from Wal-Mart. Let’s face it. There is never going to
come a day, unless my family is STARVING, that we are going to eat anyone out
there. ~sigh~ We’d
be as likely to eat the family cat.
Hopefully I will SELL some soon – and I’m not going to
ask what they want with them. I’m sure they will all go to a lovely farm
somewhere to live out their days in early retirement. In any event, as of right now I’ve stopped
all sales until Rebekah is better. Once
she is doing well again, I will have Helen’s chicks – now at point of lay –
available, as well as my turkey lurkeys.
Helen’s chicks, btw, are absolutely stunning. I will try to get one last
video before I actually do sell them.