Sometimes I find myself looking at the sites I am building and wondering about the people that go on my sites and actually order something from them. For instance, my site Building an Interlocking Retaining Wall recently sold several books on building these walls. I wonder if the person got their books yet. Are they sitting, somewhere in the world, and reading through them? Are they excited that they are about the begin this work and looking forward to planning that interlocking retaining wall for their garden even now as I write this?

Perhaps the buyer is a young couple in their first home. They are excited by the idea that they can make these changes and a little intimidated at the idea of taking on a project like this. They are sitting at the kitchen table, paging through the book considering which project might work for them. Adding up cost and making a budget. Pulling out a calendar and deciding which weekend would work best for this. Should they get up early and work before the day gets too hot? Do they live somewhere like Costa Rica or India where it might be hot already and they are planning to do the work around dawn for a few hours each day?

Perhaps they live in Canada, and bought the book to plan for the summer at their cabin up north. They could have just retired and are planning to love year-round at the little lakeside cabin they just winterized last year. Flowers will go in, and raised flower beds for a vegetable garden in back. Hopefully the rabbits and deer won’t eat everything and they will get some good meals from that garden formed by the retaining wall they are planning to build.

Or perhaps the person who bought some band saw blades from Band Saw Tools World is just now pulling those blades out of the package and walking out to his (or her) workshop in the garage to put them on the little band saw they have set up. Maybe they needed them because they were making a dollhouse for their little girl and need to be sure they have enough to get them through the project. Blades do break or wear down, so if the project is big you need to have some extras on hand. If that is so – the buyer may just put them in the drawer to be ready when the blade they are using goes in the middle of cutting out the upstairs windows on the dollhouse. Or maybe they will need them for that curved sideboard they are making for a favorite auntie’s kitchen. It is going to be a surprise, and a lot of joy is going into the design and task. The blades will be just the thing to be sure the cuts are clean and will paint up just right.

And I guess I will wonder about that person that ordered the Barbeque Tools from Get Ready To Grill! Summer is coming and for many people that does mean it is time to get the barbeque grill up and going. Somewhere, someone pulled out their equipment, took one look at their BBQ tools and knew they were going to need to find something better. They looked pretty bleak – burned and beaten up by the years of reaching into the flames to rescue a well-seasoned steak or burger from the flames just in time. They had seen years of faithful service and it was time to put these puppies out to pasture. It was time to look for new tools to do the barbeque magic with this summer.

So they looked up my site on the web, rolled through the pages, and clicked on my lovely set of barbeque tools and ordered them. I remember picking them out, thinking they were a really good price for what you got. The reviews were good and I thought someone would appreciate the value they represented. It is always nice to know that my efforts have some kind of end result. That somewhere out there, people are getting ready to barbeque or build a new garden wall or build something new in their workshop. And somehow – I had a hand in that joy.

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