Todd Grotenhuis

❓ Is speaking bringing something more valuable than what is currently happening?

📚🥃 My people know me.

Not pictured: awesome cutting boards that are still on the way and a meaningful family ornament.

🍺 Merry Christmas

Very cool “cabin-warming” gift from the family.

Cousin captured my morning vibes.

📑 Sunday Quote

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Cutting up some basswood so I can try my hand at carving.

Haven’t done this since scout summer camp.

flashback friday:

Every room is a library, if you try hard enough 📚

🥃 Cool Toddy with a traverse city cherry garnish.

🥃 opened for Christmas:

GlenDronach 12. Highland. Single malt. PX and Oloroso sherry casked.

Very tasty and has legs for days.

🔎 before picture:

Right now it’s a little foggy and breezy and ice is melting.

Later, we expect more rain, then ice, then snow, then wind.

Working on Q1 milestones this morning. ✍️📝

Our neighbor continues to cut down and burn down his woods.

Happy Solstice and Merry Christmas ☹️

It’s the first month of weblog.lol and @adam@social.lol is adding awesome stuff.

I’ve been hoping for wikilinks support for micro.blog, too (especially with MarsEdit5 now handling markown and making it much easier to edit past posts and pages). This would be game-changer.

📚 A rare addition to the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ shelf:

The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E Harrow

Only 30 pages, but I will never forget it.

Reminder:

(for context, Level 3 is a pretty immature level. Good leaders are 4 and rare truly wise ones are 5.)

🎶 Just heard a new (to me) track that was intriguing, so I checked out the artist and….

…ok, go on.

(the band is Ne Obliviscaris)

🎙 This was a pretty poor podcast episode but it had an interesting idea:

Wendell Berry frames the rural United States of America as being “colonized” and that can be a useful way to think about the extraction, exploitation, and abandonment that frequently happens.

⚽️ think I’ll collect all my #worldcup notes into one big post, put some commentary up front, and delete all the micro-posts

⚽️ Really proud of so many goalkeepers in this tournament.

⚽️ Argentina win and #USMNT are semifinalists #worldcup

⚽️ Martinez feeling better with every PK: hand on it, blocked, total miss.

⚽️ spouse “Well, I’m glad both the stars got theirs”

⚽️ Mind games begin.

⚽️ 538 has been giving #ARG a 55/45 edge any time it’s tied, but they’d dropped it to 50/50 now that we are in PKs.