Attention!

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.

Created A CollectionBuilder 1926 McFate Travel Journal Repo

This evening I created the 1926 McFate Travel Journal repo from the grinnell-college-CB-base template repo. Now I need a script that will break the primary .md document into smaller chunks, and update them in Azure Blob storage.

Posting This From The Old McFate Farmstead

So I made the decision last night to implement an instance of CollectionBuilder to document my grandmother Miriam’s 1926 travel journal. I posted this from roughly where that journey began, my grandparent’s old farm in northern Poweshiek County.

Going For a Walk Around Cherry Lake

This is really just another test of my system as we’re waiting on friends to go walking around the lake that isn’t anymore.

On a visit to the farm

Creating this new post from my phone this morning while I visit the farm.

Now Are We Done?

This test should return an accurate timestamp PLUS a valid “location” and “coordinates” from Drafts.

Thinking ahead, the “Publish Micropost to My Blog” script needs a couple more things:

Testing My New Micropost from Drafts

I modified the # solovyov.net blog post publish script giving it a new name of Publish Micropost to My Blog and so far it’s working nicely! It does not insert the location: or coordinates: values as I’d like yet, but stay tuned!

Back to Drafts

Yesterday I took a quick look at a notes-taking app called Obsidian. Very promising, but I’m already invested in Drafts (to the tune of $20/year) and it too has been rapidly improving. So, I joined the Drafts Community and started looking for some guidance. Today I’m going to try implementing one or two things based on Generate Static Site from Drafts Notes. Wish me luck!

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…

With the auto route traveling west, in a house built on a Ford with all modern convenience of camp life. Our house is equipped with a gasoline stove for cooking, a small wood heater for heating, 1 small medicine cabinet, with all necessities of a young hospital. Folding table and chairs, 1 day bed, used in day time as a seat and a place for our bed covers, when not in use. One cupboard and all cooking utensils including a pressure cooker. We fasten tent and camp cots on out side. All in all we have a very comfortable way to travel. Not to fast but just fast enough for the most enjoyable time of our lives.

Following you will find each day drive as we journey on.

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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…

Warning: Running in pre-1.0 compatibility mode. Pagefind 1.0 changes the default output directory from /_pagefind/ to /pagefind/ but references to the /_pagefind/ URL were found on your site, and the output directory is unconfigured. To preserve your setup, the search files have been written twice, to both /_pagefind/ and /pagefind/

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

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