My goodness you take wonderful photos! I love what the last one makes me think, the first one makes me feel, and the next to last makes me want to get up and go outside! Excellent work.
I'm getting ready to leave my home of 20 years and haven't made the leap to selling stuff. I'm happy you found a home for that swell bike, one that would pay you for it.
And yes, I feel I got forked, just when I had a strategy going that worked. Now, even though I am spending far more time (sometimes whole days) trying to come up with valuable content, fewer folks are coming along. Although I must say, those that do stop by are appreciative. So less moola, more love. Hm. Maybe I got the long end of the stick and the money makers got the short one.
Yes I totally get that. You are doing it right. I think it will pay off in time. Of course you have to enjoy it or no amount of money would be worth it. Now as you build up your stake, you will be able to get more rewards for currating as well as creating.
Well that's the rub! Now when I upvote, my upvote is worth sometimes not even half of what it was before, so I get nothing both for posting AND curating. I must look around, at least some in order to see my bottom line go up at all, high paying posts. I still upvote the smaller posts, but they get next to nothing from me, and my RC gets depleted just as quickly as it did before. I've had to deactivate most curation trails. So far, this fork has been a terrible blow to me and the smaller accounts I support, after one year of working very hard on steem. erg.