My Grandparent's 1926 California Trip Project
In October 1926 my grandparents, Clarence and Miriam Abia McFate, packed their family into what I imagine was a pickup truck with a homemade camper in the bed and embarked on a trip that grandma, Miriam, described as…
Following you will find each day drive as we journey on.
Continue Reading »2025-Feb-2 at 08:54 AM
I hope this is my last installment of “Mackenzie Posts” as the news is all good.
Mackenzie has been back to work part-time since January 7 and I think that’s gone very well. She gets some brain fatigue after a few hours at work and therapy, but that too has been improving. Therapy might be winding down soon as well, she has 2 sessions this coming week and will probably transition to once every couple of weeks after that.
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Rebranding CV to HAT with Pagefind
Today I’m rebranding the Tama-Toledo Community Visioning (CV) site to Hometown Action Team (HAT) and adding Pagefind.
When doing so I get this build error…
To remove this warning, either update your script and style references to the new /pagefind/ URL
or run Pagefind with --output-subdir _pagefind to ensure pre-1.0 behaviour
2025-Jan-01 at 12:30 PM
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.
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A Newer Pagefind Enabled Blog!
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.
Continue Reading »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.
Started using Pixabay instead of Unsplash for royalty-free images in this blog.
A New Pagefind Enabled 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.
Continue Reading »2024-Nov-29 at 07:54 AM
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.
Continue Reading »Mackenzie Update - 2024-Nov-26 at 10:06 AM
We are outta here! Headed home!