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Bugs like tulips

I haven't seen a lot of bee action around the tulips this year. I'm not sure if its the time of year, my timing or the flowers.

I have seen a lot of smaller flying insects in and around them though.

Frog Pond Forest Bath

I took the kids to Frog Pond for snack and it was awesome. We saw a deer run by the path and I pulled out the camera. We didn't see any more deer, but we did see a couple geese land.

Canada Geese Landing

Canada Geese Landing

And little ducklings.

ducklings

There are 5 …

Buckets of tulips

All of the tulips are popping right now. I am taking lots and lots of pictures and just limited on time. I added over 366 photos yesterday [*], which sounds like a backlog, but maybe I will clear them all out today.

tulips in felt Buckets

The aforementioned buckets of flowers (some of them)

[*]This …

Custom CSS per page or article with pelican

For a little while now I have been trying to make my reading page look "prettier".

The main thing that I wanted was a really easy way to show if a book was a work in progress, finished or Did-not-finish. The page that I have been basing it on is …

Cape Breton Style Cinnamon Rolls v1

For a while now I have been thinking about the cinnamon rolls that I had growing up. The only way that I could describe them was biscuit vs bread style. My searching both online and recipe books was not yielding any satisfactory results. Then Jess found this.

It was a …

I have comments - Using Mastodon

If you have a Mastodon Account, on any instance, you can now comment on posts in a common thread. I wrote a bot that will create a post where everyone can comment, and own your comments. The neat thing is that if someone already clicked the link it will take …

Commenting with Mastodon

I missed having the potential of discussions around things that I post here, but at the same time I didn't want to add load to the site to manage comments or complexity of databases, etc.

I remember seeing somewhere that people used to use Facebook for comments on their site …

Bees are getting active

Spring is here. Warning now, there will be a lot of bee and flower pictures for the next couple of months.