{"id":13626,"date":"2025-01-01T12:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:20:20","slug":"christmas-new-year-web-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/christmas-new-year-web-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, New Year, Web Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new year begins. In this post I will cover our Christmas, New Year’s, and note some changes to my web site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, 2024 came to a close. We celebrated our Christmas with Becky, opening gifts and having a good meal. Some photos of the day:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Getting started on gift opening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Elmo and AJ enjoyed exploring discarded boxes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Becky with custom “Bird Song Cottage” sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Our New Year’s celebration was not much this time. Pam baked some excellent chocolate chip cupcakes (with additional chocolate chips added) which went very well with hot tea. To be honest, I am not sure what the new year will bring, but I’m not optimistic about the change in administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time I can remember, there is no snow on the ground on January 1st. Here is photo of the house and east yard taken today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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No snow on January 1st, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

While the weather had been very mild, and the snow we received back on December 20th has all melted, the next 10-day forecast has below average temps and no snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bright spot for me was a meeting with my college roommate, Jon Bjornson, and his wife Joan. They are in the process of moving from the Boston area to Owensboro, KY. Jon’s mother lives in Spring Valley, east of Minneapolis, and they were visiting her before heading south. The route took them near New Hampton and we managed to meet there at Klunder’s Cafe.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jon, myself, Pam, and Joan at Klunder’s Cafe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As mentioned in my opening, there have been some changes to my web site. Several “tabs” have been removed, including Jer’s Toys, Videos, and Galleries. Removal of these features from the site will result in some broken links in older posts, but it was time to slim down the site. (No photos were removed, so links to them are still in place.) The remaining tabs were reordered and a new one, You Tube Videos, was added. This link will take you to my YouTube videos playlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new entry was added to daughter Felicity’s section on the Kids<\/a> tab: a link to her YouTube playlist is now present. This playlist deals with the renovation of the Lodi, NY house, which is still in progress. Take a look!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next couple weeks look to be uneventful, although I do have a couple routine medical reviews coming up. It is time for both my Type 2 diabetes review with my local medical staff. The Mayo Clinic has sent me another blood draw kit, draw to be done in our local clinic, to monitor my PSA and testosterone levels following my prostate cancer treatments. Both are routine follow-ups but require a blood draw and a trip to the Cresco Regional Health Center. I hope there are no surprises in either case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Trails.<\/p>\n\n\n

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