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It’s amazing how time flies. Fourteen years of marriage with my best friend. Two wonderful children, a home, two cats, some fish, and a few chickens. I couldn’t ask for more. Happy Anniversary @TheRealChadwick ❤

Picture of a couple getting married. The bride is light skinned with brown hair wearing a white dress with colorful stones on the bodice. The groom is light skinned with brown hair and is wearing a tux. The bride is holding onto a bouquet of flowers.

My garden is working! I’m actually growing things 😁

tomatoes, cucumber, squash, and some peppers in a clear container on a stone countertop

I saw five rainbows when I was out and about today 😊🌈

August 11th 2023 - Website Change Log

  1. Added in changelog link to navigation
  2. Added in video page link to navigation
  3. Adjusted home page to include micro-posts content, not just summary
  4. Script to remove height and width attributes so css can adjust size
  5. Fixed category feed link on category pages

6 month journal flip through 2023 📝

“Dear Moon” by EnjoyMusic from enjoymusic.ai

It took forever but I finally finished painting the windows this weekend! I started back in February

Long row of tall windows. Nine in total. They are freshly painted a light cream color.

Thanks to @manton for updating the bookmarks JSON api this afternoon to include tags so now you can use @sod’s wonderful bookmark plugin to display them (assuming you have the premium Micro.blog plan). You will need to use a custom template like he details in his documentation. The trick is to use the {{ .tags }} inside the {{ range .items }}. Here’s how I’m doing it on my site: Pastebin.

You might have noticed I further customized it with longer preview text and some extra replace statements. That’s because the .content_html includes some extra links to the micro.blog reader text which looked a bit strange after you stripped out the html with plainify. That’s where the {{replace (replace ( .content_html | plainify | truncate 300 ) "Reader: " "") $url.Host ""}} line comes in.

Trying out some different feed readers. I’ve never really used one before and I see how this could be a useful tool to have.

Made a couple tweaks to my website, fixed some microformats, added in a now “page”, and replies now have conversation links thanks to this post by jarrod.

I dislike working with dates in JavaScript. That is all 😒

I’ve made good progress on my little, local only, app that uses a disappearing iframe trick. I still have bugs to squash and a longer post to write, but here’s the sneak peak: A framed* productivity app with code on Github. Keep in mind, this is very alpha, so no using it for anything important.

Screenshot of a productivity app with dark background. It has a calendar on it with dots on the dates representing tasks and events. There are several events listed under the selected date.

New personal best 😊 42 minutes to complete the Tai Chi Form - 108 Long Yang . Moving slow + low stances = calm mind and good workout.

I wandered over to my company’s shared office space today. They are really making the outdoor space nice. If I didn’t have homeschooling/kid responsibilities I could see myself coming here more often.

grassy area next to office building with chairs and an umbrella.

Okay, I know I’m strange. But every once in a while I get a strong urge to code my own web browser. Just for the fun of it. Just to see how it works 😂

This is my first year journaling and on a whim I grabbed a Hobonichi Cousin from Amazon. I love it, but now I’m wondering what to do next year.. Same? 5-year? Multiple different ones? Choices, choices…

Nothing like a lake side vacation. My daughter has been enjoying sneaking up on ducks. 🦆

girl swimming in lake with pine trees in the background. in the foreground a family of ducks she is sneaking up on.

Things are growing! I can’t wait until some veggies are ready to pick

That was a sweaty Tai Chi class. I feel like a swamp monster.

The chicks are getting bigger and I love the cheek feathers 🥰

Salmon Favorelles outside on the grass under a chicken wire run. Three hens and two juvenile roosters.

Whew! Homeschooling this year is officially done! Since I had to go through all the trouble of writing up progress reports I decided to toss them up on my blog. Except not bullet lists but prettier and with pictures. Check it out if you’d like: Seventh Grade and Fifth Grade 🥳

At the end of the homeschooling year I’m often panicking because I worry that I haven’t done enough, covered enough, to give my kids a well-rounded and rigorous secular education… but then I have to sit down and write a progress report for the school system and I’m in awe at all we covered 😮‍💨

Another dance recital done 💃 I’m so glad I decided to give it a shot. It’s even more fun with your sister! We danced to “Stray Cat Strut” and “Eye of the Tiger”. I’m so glad my dance studio has the adult classes get on stage too. Two years down, many more to go 😍

Two sisters smiling next to each other. They are both in stage makeup and wearing cat ears.

A happy little frog in our koi pond this morning 🐸

Koi pond with lillypads. There is a green frog on one lillypad and on open lilly flower next to it.

Ever since we bought the house I’ve wanted some bookcases with glass doors. We finally got around to making that happen. I love them 😍

Set of white Ikea bookcases with glass doors on them.