A day off from work was a good idea. We went for a hike at Coyote Wall.

The trails have a gentle grade and there’s plenty of room to distance ourselves when we come across other people.

Lovely views. Small streams and falls. Birds and flowers.

We’d gone there last April as well. This time around we just did a four mile loop.

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It was pretty lovely outside today.

As many of us practice social distancing, or self-quarantine, I am feeling very grateful to the folks on the front lines of health care, and also those that are making sure my power, water/sewer, gas, internet, and disposal services continue to function. Thank you! ❤️

There There by Tommy Orange
★★★★☆

Added to /books

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We got some rare snow today. Apparently haven’t seen snow like this in March since 1968.

This cherry blossomed yard in the neighborhood 😍

Inspired by Patrick Rhone’s /reading page, I’ve created a Books page on my site.

Following is the process I followed to make that happen on my Mac:

• Export all my books out of Goodreads. You can find the page to do that by navigating to “My Books” and selecting “Import and export” at the bottom of the left sidebar under “Tools”. The exported file is of CSV format, which is pretty standard.
• Open the export file in a spreadsheeting app. I use Numbers.app. Here, you can clean up any data. I added some ISBNs that were missing. I also saved this file so I can just update it in the future as I read books. Another reason I went through this step was because I was having a hard time parsing the original CSV file using the script I wrote.
• Export the spreadsheet file as CSV.
• Run it through the script below to generate Markdown that can be pasted directly into the page on my site.

And that’s it!

Here’s the script:

Flowers at sunset, after rain.