Check out my new TESTING page where I hope to continue testing new features. Also, be sure to have a look at my new HIKES site and especially some of the “highlighted” hikes that are listed in bold there.
Note that HIKES used to be a “section” here, but there are a lot of them so I made a site just for them.
Sorry for missing the last few eventful WEEKS, and Happy New Year to all. Lots of folks were asking about Mackenzie in the past few days between holidays, so here’s a brief update…
Mackenzie is doing well and continues to show improvement. The last month has been spent largely in speech and occupational therapy appointments at GRMC, with “homework” therapy assigned for the days in-between. She had only a couple occupational therapy sessions, and one physical therapy, before “graduating” out of those sessions. She has one more speech therapy session tomorrow but I expect we will add more of those for at least the next month or so.
It’s deja vu all over again. My timeline module doesn’t work with the current rendition of https://blog.SummittDweller.com and I can’t figure out what’s broken. So, I’ve resurrected my old personal blog project and updated with the meager content it was missing. That project has a working timeline but no Pagefind search, yet.
So, how might I ONCE AGAIN approach combining Hugo with Pagefind in the cloud? Well, A Powerful Blog Setup with Hugo and NPM* by Tom Hombergs looked like a promising place to start. The process that Tom advocates leverages a neat little package called hugo-bin.
Just dropped Emily and Natilie (2 international Grinnell College students) off at DSM for their holiday travel home. Ivan, our 2024-25 FIS student from Bulgaria, is with me for a geocaching lunch/holiday event at Pizza Ranch. After this a little geocaching then I’ll drop Ivan at DSM for his flight home and I’ll head for home before it gets dark on this shortest day of the year.
Pixabay Images
Started using Pixabay instead of Unsplash for royalty-free images in this blog.
So, node and npm are maybe not “all the rage” these days, but they do the job nicely for me.
So, how might I ONCE AGAIN approach combining Hugo with Pagefind in the cloud? Well, A Powerful Blog Setup with Hugo and NPM* by Tom Hombergs looked like a promising place to start. The process that Tom advocates leverages a neat little package called hugo-bin.
*The links provided above and below are to a Wayback Machine capture of the original post.
Sorry for missing the last few eventful days since we returned home from the hospital.
So, we returned from Mercy CR’s IRU on Tuesday afternoon and spent most of the day getting Mackenzie settled back in, nothing too strenuous or complicated. Chris went off to school for the afternoon, grandma brought lunch in for us, and after school (early out) we had dinner together.
I did some cleaning and tinkered around with some things until about 7 PM when I was getting really tired. Thought I’d lay down for an hour then get back at it, but I fell fast asleep and woke up Wednesday morning at 6:30 AM when my alarm went off.
Not much to report thus far today. Mackenzie had OT this morning at 7:30 AM and I got booted out of her room (to the very comfy family lounge/lobby) for ST a few minutes ago. She has a full slate of therapy (mostly speech) until about 2 PM today, then rest.
I’m here on my own today and expect to sneak in a few hours of work after an early start at 5 AM.
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from US Highway 30 - Eastbound between Toledo and Cedar Rapids, IA
I’m in the car and headed back to CR, and I haven’t seen Mackenzie in more than 24 hours so I’m not sure what to tell you here but I thought maybe it’s time for a little fun and humor. I’m also capturing this because I don’t wanna forget it down the road.
A few days ago when we checked into Mercy Cedar Rapids, our caseworker came in collecting information, mostly from me, but also from Mackenzie. She had lots of questions.
Sorry for the very late update today. I spent the morning at home and most of the day at work in Grinnell before visiting Morgan in M’town “on the way home”.
I know Mackenzie had a full day of therapy today and I’m told her blood pressure did spike a little but I think they are keeping a close eye on that and got it back down. I also know she had a psych consult today because we were worried about depression after she was told she’d have to stay a few more days. And then her cousin passed away and I think we all could have benefitted from some consultation, and rest. But I’m told that went well and she’s in pretty good spirits now.