Todd Grotenhuis

📰 Indianapolis Recorder Seeks Next Editor.

Could it be you?

🔎 I call this “creepwalkin’”

Sorry for the bad angle, but I didn’t want to lose the shot. #GreatBlueHeron

🕊 Mennonite Central Committee and Mennonite Church USA are hosting a series of webinars: Beyond Incarceration.

Over the last forty years, the era of mass incarceration has seen a rise in the U.S. prison population by five hundred percent.

🔎 I like the interaction of the rain and ice and waves

Finished reading: A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman 📚

A rare Five ⭐️ Read.

Secret Rule Parlor Games:

• Black Magic
• Green Glass Door / Moon Pennies
• Bang Bang, Who’s Dead? / Whose Triangle Is It?
• Grandma Doesn’t Like Tea
• How Many Watermelons?
• Tommy Tommy
• The Moon is Round

Know of others? Tell me about them! (or better, let’s play them!)

📑 Sunday Quote

🃏 Taught the Woogits (our friends’ kids) Hand & Foot. Good times!

So I think I have my activitypub/Mastodon setup complete:

• Follow people from micro.blog
• Follow specific hashtags from mastodon

This let’s me keep my normal feed high signal-to-noise and then let’s me dip into regular mastodon during live sports events, etc.

🔎 turtle log has temporarily become muskrat log

I jokingly called yuccas “asparagus plants” for the last few years, due to how they look before blooming.

This morning my spouse informed me they actually are part of the asparagus family!

Currently working through: (My) Principles by Ray Dalio (and me) 📚

📺 Van der Valk (2020 version) is pretty poor and has a lot of not-intelligent-pretending-to-be-intelligent things going on.

…but still finished season 2 because I like seeing all the Dutch stuff.

🕊 Happy to be a sermon midwife.

“It’s not a real session until you’ve put your hands on the floor”

• my trainer 💪

Finished (re-)reading: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb 📚

🎲 today in crowdfunding deliveries:

🎲 The Monster Overhaul is shaping up to be the coolest game book since Trilemma Adventures Compendium 1.

Currently reading: Home-Scale Forest Garden by Dani Baker 📚

It’s 2023 Public Domain Day!!

🕊️ I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s only the 7th day of Christmas and you don’t have to feel rushed to put away your decorations, yet.

🎶 It’s not the end of the year, but we’re getting close. Here’s about where it will land. (Much more to come in end-of-year music post.)

🪵 Processed a fallen tree. Logs are added to the piles.

Thankful for family who helped me (on Christmas, no less!) move it off of the pond-bank tree it had landed against.

Is the clutter indicative of hoarding? Here’s a helpful resource.