All the Little Free Library books were taken overnight. Happens once a year somehow. My faith in humanity is dinged, while my hope for literacy carries on. Libraries forever!

1,000 Books served at our Longfellow Villa Little Free Library since 2002. Thanks to neighbors who share & read. Books logged with Library Thing displayed on site at Longfellow.Life

Cast iron skillet Cornbread, for some hot chili on a chill November eve.

BUH BYE GOOGLE DOMAINS

Finally finished transferring domains out of Google before migration to Squarespace. Porkbun has been handy to use as a new registrar, especially the External Domain feature to set up DNS before transfer to eliminate any downtime or anomalies. Porkbun was recommended here on Micro.blog. Thanks!

BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Buttermilk biscuits and cinnamon crunch cookie from dough scraps. Now open the Apple Butter from Whistling Well Orchard.

MORNING DEW

Walk me out in the morning dew.

LFL

Didn’t realize how much I depend on LibraryThing on a daily basis until I couldn’t scan my Little Free Library additions yesterday. Why a DDOS attack against them??? They’re back up today, and we’ve now logged 927 books over 1-1/2 years. www.librarything.com/topic/353…

GLORIOUS MORNINGS

Wall of Morning Glories

GIANT JAMAICA BLOOMS

Giant Jamaica Flower blooms on Hibiscus plant

Thick honeysuckle bushes at Lake Independence in Baker Park Reserve.

Pasta Salad today, yesterday, and tomorrow. It’s really summer.

We have a robin nesting at our garage.

Maiden of Minehaha Falls

Baking biscuits for Brunch. To be topped with Asparagus & Avgolemono sauce.

Art in Bloom at Minneapolis Institute of Art has over 100 floral displays, each paired with an inspiring artwork.

Attended the Center for Photographic Studies on Main Street in Louisville a few blocks from the Old National Bank, site of a tragic mass shooting yesterday. Documented club & street life on the funky old West Main strip way back in 1975. So sad, we must change.

8-1/2 inches fresh snow this morning in Minneapolis.

Reviving Help Desk service on my indie web & publishing consulting biz to manage client email threads & workflow. Freemium SASS solutions abound all the way up to Atlassian Jira, a massive platform. Instead, opting to own data & massage GPL code with solid WordPress plugin WSDesk by ELEX.

Feels like Spring 🌼

BARBER BOB TRENDING WITH OUR WORD & IMAGE PRESS CAMPAIGN

Barber Bob trending on local news in Minneapolis, with our targeted press campaign by Word & Image. Got several TV news stories, a radio story, and several online news stories. Too bad it celebrates the closing of a 120-year-old historic institution. Grain Exchange Barbershop | Media | in the News

It looks kinda Secure with just a tiny lock (not really), but a big mail slot on the side allows an arm to reach in. March Photoblogging Challenge Day 1 #mbmar

So today someone left a bunch of crappy opened artificial flavor gift tea boxes in our Little Free Library. Really??? Time for a reminder sign, that our library is for books. 📚

Finally moved the last domain out of SiteGround, after moving all websites out last year. They were a good cheap semi-managed WordPress host years ago. Now it’s clumsy, limited and costlier. Happily using affordable Cloudways with automated containers.

Finished reading: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein 📚 But didn’t finish…as many have reviewed, the pulp dialog, sexist bent, and lack of characters had me put this down after trying to engage.

Daily photo of Little Free Library box to update my LibraryThing collection for status of books available or gone. Some 600 titles logged for 2022. Tiny HTML/CSS/JS site embeds current LibraryThing shelf plus a local Tweet feed. Longfellow.Life