By Fred Steiner

Obviously no one has tipped off Rick and Pat Shaner of The Icon's existence. Just out of curiosity, I check Google Analytics today. While probably 95 percent of the Icon viewers live in Allen, Hancock and Putnam counties we've become discovered across the U.S. and the globe.

We've had viewers in 43 states. Those states not on our radar screen include: North Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada, Arkansas, Mississippik, Delaware and...Alaska. Thus, the comment about the Shaners.

Our viewers touch the Atlantic all the way north to Rockland, Maine (one viewer) and all the was west to Monterey, California. We have viewers in 24 California cities.

Meanwhile, in Canada we've been spotted 53 times, 25 of those views come frrom Calgary and 13 from Kitchener.

Now, it gets really interesting. We've had viewers from 22 countries. For example, one view from somewhere (Google didn't know the exact location) in South Africa.

On Nov. 30, a viewer from Oslo, Norway, spent 4 minutes and 45 seconds on the Icon. On Nov. 19, a viewer from Providencia, Chile, was on for 46 minutes.

We've also been discovered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. One viewer checked us out of Nov. 23 and again on Nov. 30. The latter view was nearly 5 minutes of reading.

There are may more countries with one or two viewers. We'll share those with you later.

In the meantime, will some please rattle Rick or Pat's chain? We'd like to know what they are up to in Alaska.