đź“· Toy. Day 1 of the April 2024 Micro.blog Photoblogging Challenge.


A scene from my daughter’s dollhouse. Must have been some party.


The Baton Rouge Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade with E.


Finished reading: This is Europe by Ben Judah đź“š


🎵 Ambient Country Podcast

Ambient Country, hosted by Bob Holmes of SUSS, explores the wide range of instrumental music including new folk, ambient, electronic, soundscapes, Americana, jazz, and cosmic psychedelia. Each month, Bob has co-hosts who play music from their latest releases as well as share tracks that have influenced and moved them to make their music.

Here’s a new musical and podcast discovery I’m enjoying quite a bit.


The Summer in South Louisiana has been brutally hot and humid but not rainy. E and I are trying to revive our front beds in the hopes of having pink azalea blooms one day.

Tow children, a boy or five years and a girl of four years, in blue and pink shirts and t-shirts standing in front of a garden bed with azalea shrubs and other plants.  The girl is holding a hose.

Currently reading: This is Europe by Ben Judah đź“š


A boy of five years in shorts, t-shirt, and blue rubber boots stands next to a girl of three years in a pink princess dress staring through a chain link fence overgrown with weeds.  A buff orphington hen stands next to them on the gravel.
The morning of the day we left for Italy was eventful. A nearby house that had been split in half was hauled away on flatbed trucks.

Sicily Trip: Day Nine


Sicily Trip: Day 7


Sicily Trip: Day 6

We all woke up this morning around 7:30am or so after staying up quite late.  All of us were up until 10:30pm.

We made arrangements for a trip to Vulcano and Lipari tomorrow. E took the time to mock up boats and volcanoes to prepare us for the trip.


Sicily Trip: Day Five


E and I on one of the balconies in our apartment, getting dressed. We have a washer and our clothes are soaked as soon as we leave the house. We dry them on the rack to dry, being careful not to drop them below.

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We walked to a small grocery store about 1Km away from our apartment, using the rolling grocery tote left for us. Just one of the many handy things left by the owner of our apartment.

After that, we took to the beach.

Traversing a beach full of Italians (and foreigners) feels tricky at times. While we enjoyed many warm looks (usually due to our children, especially I), we received a few looks that were very territorial. “Are you actually going to place your foot there?”

We are walking several miles a day in the heat. And this wipes out these little bodies and mine too for that matter. We all sleep it off during the early afternoon, like the rest of CefalĂą.

The kitchen in our apartment. I made some coffee while everyone slept. K came down from upstairs to enjoy it with me.

We had these sesame-coated cookies that K picked up with our coffee.

This photo does’t capture this well but the apartment has all of these fascinating little views and scenes from the numerous windows looking out on all sides.

After losing power for a few minutes during the hottest part of the afternoon, we set out on a walk. There is always some pleading with the kids to try to be quieter as we leave through the courtyard.

After E mentioned volcanoes and boats again this morning, we decided to go ahead and schedule a tour of nearby islands, Lipari and Vulcana.


Sicily Trip: Day Four

The day began with a short (1KM) walk to the Palermo Train Station down Via Maqueda. We ended up in the same cafe we visited yesterday.

E’s little stuffed animal goes with her everywhere.

Getting to CefalĂą by train was easier than we thought. We arrived at te train station to find that our scheduled train was leaving later, much later. But K was quick on her feet and found out that we could leave in 10 minutes.

Once we arrived in CefalĂą we rolled up to our room and immediately left to get a bite to eat. After that, we got suited up and headed down to the beach.

If you (can) hear a scooter engine, you better step out of the way.

The kitchen in our apartment. E said that he would eat salads if we had orange bowls at home.

One view from our window includes the dramatic rock face of the cliff overlooking CefalĂą

The view from our window includes this courtyard with lots of interesting things going on at night.


Sicily Trip: Day Three


Sicily Trip: Day Two

Nine hours. And E slept pretty well. We took out the big guns for the Ryan Air flight to Palermo. We pretty much fell apart on that flight. Five minutes later, E was out like a light. We still went out to look around. What’s that? Just a boat on cinder blocks.


Sicily Trip: Day One

The Baton Rouge Airport is kid friendly.The Baton Rouge Airport is kid friendly. E was thrilled during takeoff but was really enjoying coloring in his new sticker book. E in the Atlanta Airport sharing a secret with his mommy.E in the Atlanta Airport sharing a secret with his mommy. E and I loved watching the planes be “repaired”. Weather delays and we haven’t left the gate. Screens out.


Sicily.


Painting by P.X. Miranda. Woman with red hair covering, pale skin, and bird over her left breast against white background flecked with a few red dashes.

Hypothes.is to WordPress

For quite some time, I have admired that way that Chris Aldrich has built his WordPress website with the aim of posting all of his writing and other content to his own website. One of the most interesting features of his site is how he has incorporated his use of Hypothes.is, the free and open-source annotation tool, into his WordPress site. As someone who also uses Hypothes.is for casual and professional reading and within my teaching, I am trying to see if I can accomplish something similar.

David Shanske helped out by referring me to a Github Gist that registers custom post kinds outside of the Post Kinds plugin directory. This will allow me to retain the custom post kind even when Post Kinds is updated. I made a fork of David’s Gist with some changes to define it as kind related to annotation.

Icon Support

Using Chris’s instructions, I was able to include an SVG icon that will display on my posts and within the Post Kinds metabox editor.  Be sure to select the settings for “icon” or “icon and text” so that the SVG icon will display.  I used the highligher icon with appropriate permissions from Font Awesome’s Github collection.

Appearance

As a next step, I would like to customize the appearance of the kind. As a starting point, it might be good to try out the various types of Post Formats that might work well. I am using the bookmark format at the moment.

Resources

 


Want to read: No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz đź“š

Via The Convivial Society: Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life was discussed. Goffman’s theory was used in No Sense of Place.