Anthony Ciccarello
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  1. December has me thinking of cooler weather.

    • photo
    • landscape
  2. Attending a local environment impact meeting

    About a month ago, I received a letter from the city about a potential development of the old Pacifica Elementary property by Meritage Homes. This project would bring 164 three-story units to an interior portion of our neighborhood that has been an empty concrete lot since 2004. The letter informed...

    • article
    • local
    • Oceanside
  3. Thanks to snarfed.org my website should now be discoverable as @anthony@ciccarello.me on federated ActivityPub services like Mastodon. I’m still ironing out the kinks but I’m impressed by everything fed.brid.gy supports

    • note
    • site changes
  4. Today we saw what looked like a goldfish in the harbor. Apparently a “Catalina Goldfish” is officially called a Garibald and is California’s state fish.

    • note
    • TIL
  5. Wedding in Washington

    And other PNW adventures

    • article
    • travel
    • personal
  6. Today I finally enabled displaying of webmentions thanks to webmention.io. I only support rendering mentions client side for now but I hope to eventually add rendering and sending to the site’s build process.

    • note
    • IndieWeb
    • site changes
  7. We’ve had some really great sunsets the past few weeks. So satisfying.

    • photo
    • sunset
  8. It’s been a busy last month. I had a lot of fun on the central California coast but I’m happy to have a couple weekends to rest too.

    • photo
    • nature
    • animals
  9. A year later I finally got my Instagram photos backfilled. I hope to make it easier to upload photos in the future but it feels good to have combined the two collections.

    • photo
    • nature
    • flowers
    • plants
    • IndieWeb
    • site changes
  10. Happy Mother’s Day to my wife. While we may not have kids in our home today, I am so proud of how you stepped into the role of foster mom this past year. Overnight you offered your love and attention to our foster kiddos when they couldn’t be with their...

    • photo
    • personal
  11. Because I haven’t posted enough of either, here’s a yellow flower on a cactus

    • photo
    • nature
    • plants
  12. We are changing foster agencies

    It has now been more than six months since our last foster placement. At the beginning of the year, we made the difficult decision to switch foster agencies. After how long it took to get licensed the first time, the prospect of another delay was discouraging. But I feel confident...

    • article
    • personal
    • foster care
  13. The roses were in full bloom this weekend at the rose gardens. So many interesting varieties. Loved these “Love Song“ roses “Rock-n-roll“ roses I'm a little mesmerized by this animation

    • photo
    • nature
    • plants

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