Shannon Kay's Blog

It felt like spring this weekend! It was a beautiful day on Easter Sunday.

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Guinevere asked to ride a horse for her 12th birthday, so I scheduled a trail ride at Irvine Regional Park. It had to be rescheduled twice because of the rain. We finally got to go on our trail ride, and it was a beautiful day! Guinevere rode a horse named Gracie, and I rode Snip.

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We went to a place called Let it Brie today, and I think it’s our favorite restaurant now. This is our cheese board. Beatrix(3) loved the baguette slices with brie and fig jam.

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Rainy days are perfect for reading with a cup of coffee! I’m currently reading  A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Cozy Sci-Fi? Serving tea on some moon? The promised robot hasn’t shown up yet, but it’s lovely so far.

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Guinevere’s first pair of Pointe shoes got too small and it hurt when she tried to dance in them. It was hard to get an appointment for a fitting at The Pointe Shop, so we ended up with a fitting just a couple hours before her ballet class. 

The pointe shoe fitter could tell her old shoes were too small before she even took them all the way out. Guinevere was quickly fitted for new shoes and we drove straight to the dance studio. We got there one hour before her regular ballet class, with two hours until she was... [Read More]

I’ve finished Chain of Thorns, and The Last Hours series of Shadowhunter books has concluded for me.

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So I made myself an emoji subdomain. It works, which is really fun. But I guess I need to add it to my certificate.

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The hills are green and flowering, and we took a little walk up the hill by the park.

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I went over to my parents’ house. Since we’re planning on having a tea party next weekend, my mom and I got out the china. I believe this china has been in my parents’ possession since my paternal grandmother passed away when I was 5(which was in 1988), but I think it’s been packed away for most of that time and I don’t remember having seen it at all. My mom may have used it for something when I was a child, but I don’t remember it.

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I got this new mug, and I love it so much!

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On our way to the car this morning, we saw a snail crossing the sidewalk. When I returned from school drop off, the snail was still there and had progressed a few inches.

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I received a new Fujifilm X-T5 camera for Christmas, but I haven’t gotten to play with it much because our family was sick for most of winter break. Then it was very rainy and cloudy most days. The sun is finally out again, and I took the opportunity to pull out the camera.

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My husband got us tickets to The Postal Service & Death Cab For Cutie playing Give Up & Transatlanticism at the Hollywood Bowl in October.

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Last night, I read a short story by Lucy Maud Montgomery(author of Anne of Green Gables) from 1903 called The Strike at Putney. It’s about a group of church ladies who are told by their church elders and minister that a missionary woman cannot speak in the church, because a woman cannot preach from the pulpit.

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In the Northern Hemisphere, today is the day with the least sunlight, it’s called the Winter Solstice, and is often considered the “first day of winter”.

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So you want an alternative to Twitter, and you’ve heard of Mastodon and the Fediverse, but you’re not sure what to do. Maybe you’re confused, or you’ve tried to join and given up. Lots of more extensive guides have been written. This is meant to help simplify the “getting started” process.

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