Eric Walker

📸 Photoblogging - Day 23: Meaning

Sometimes the days take a different turn than you expect…

📸 Photoblogging - Day 21: Space

Great day to hike around Willow Falls and was thankful the overlook space was open to enjoy this view.

📸 Photoblogging - Day 20: Sports

Let’s just say my son and I made a sport of how we could game the high score to get the most tickets. When we started the high score was 540 and we ended it was 800 😁.

Note his sisters loved the points to get more trinkets

I mean come on people, do we have to complain about everything 🤦‍♂️. Personally I actually enjoyed the music when I hit mile marker 23 it was the end of the climb and not much left 🤣.

It has been so long since I have actually logged into and looked around at my WordPress powered UpNorth.blog site that I realized so much stuff is outdated.

Right now I push all the content from Micro.blog there as it was how I set it up a year ago and I actually don’t mind the process flow. Nothing that gets pushed over there is published to the front page unless I want it to be and have to log in to make it happen. Otherwise all of these posts are kind of hidden in the background. I know if you really wanted to find it you could but you might have to dig a little or know what to search for. There has only been a couple times in the past year that I have taken a post I published on Micro.blog and made sure it hit the main page of that site.

As I keep looking at the couple of site pages I have, I found my about page hadn’t been updated for 4 years as it talked about some work I did with a different non-profit. Also, I realized I had a newsletter subscribe and archive link there that I haven’t even sent anything out since 3 years ago as well.

I guess I am trying to figure out the purpose of this site as anything I want to share or post I publish to my Micro.blog site. I don’t really need a professional site of any kind so it is almost a backup of my Micro.blog which isn’t the end of the world but I have been thinking about changing things up again.

Uh oh… 😁

Looks like I need to wrap up work quickly as I am getting the forced reboot and the snooze is greyed out… 🤦‍♂️

📸 Photoblogging - Day 17: Compass

One of my favorite most interesting things I got from my Grandpa Cloutier was a 1921 Ansonia Clock Co. Sunwatch with compass.

📸 Photoblogging - Day 16: Rotation

Another rotation around the sun and the Boo has turned 7 👻👀… Happy Birthday 🥳

📸 Photoblogging - Day 15: Ethereal

Seemed like we had the place to ourselves today at the Great Wolf Lodge

📸 Photoblogging - Day 14: Wheels

In honor of today’s prompt I took the OneWheel out for a ride today. So fun! But something I haven’t done as much this year for risk of injuring myself 🤣.

Doing a little work from the shed again today. Always good change of scenery but it is getting a little cooler out. I might have to move up my electrical timeline 😁

I believe today marks my one year of using Micro blog or at least based on my post from a year ago today (my one year being a paid member is coming up). However, with that said I now see my On this Day page doesn’t work 😒 (add that to my list to look into another time).

Thinking back, I can’t believe it took me so long to find this platform or maybe I saw it and didn’t think to use it.

Either way I have enjoyed the past year learning about what is possible and in some places figuring out a work around or how it can work for me. Honestly, the best part of Micro.blog is the community and acquaintances that I have made through this platform. It kind of fits with what I have always looked for when blogging. I do it mostly for myself but if someone else reads it and finds it interesting then great. Also, since it is ingrained into everything else on Micro.Blog then I can find others that are like minded and interested in similar topics.

Even after a year of using Micro.blog I am still not entirely sure what my setup is going to look like but for now it is working and the linking I have done between my older WordPress blog works.

📸 Photoblogging - Day 13: Animals

This is where this animal sleeps all day while I work nearby

📸 Photoblogging - Day 12: Legend(ary)

I think I know what I might fire up this weekend… I can’t even count the hours I have spent in my younger (and older) years playing this game.

📸 Photoblogging - Day 11: Hygge

Everyone wants to lay next to the doodle but she just likes soft blankets… 🐶

I really enjoy when October rolls around as my youngest always drifts to one of my favorite Halloween books to read and listen to. I prefer listening to it as the delivery of the lines are much better 😁

Enjoy this video for those of you who don’t have the book