{"id":8516,"date":"2022-09-22T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2022-09-21T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T23:49:03","slug":"blogiversary-17-andautumnal-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/22\/blogiversary-17-andautumnal-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogiversary #17 and
Autumnal Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blogging<\/h5>\n

Even though this is the “official” 17th Blogiversary of CB&D, we have a history of on-line presence several years prior to having a weblog. I started with an online webpage repository with photos of my grandchildren, some of our friends and radio\/flying club activities a couple of years before we started to blog. I had an account at “Keyway<\/a>” network with those items I mentioned. That was about in 1995 when Keyway was just getting started. Then, just about the time that Damsel and I were getting married in 1998, I found an Internet Service Provider where I could get my own website domain. I started up a family website<\/a> which eventually became our family blog, the now defunct Wandering Minstrel<\/a> and Cap’n Bob & the Damsel. I even had a Neighborhood Watch blog (also now defunct) to report on and deal with problems in our neck of the woods at the time.<\/p>\n

Before blogging, I was already a software professional, but didn’t have many internet-specific code skills. I spent a lot of time learning commonly-used web languages: JavaScript<\/a>, PHP<\/a>, HTML<\/a>, CSS<\/a>, W3C Standards<\/a> and much more. It was all fun and interesting. Then, by that time, blogging<\/a> struck me as something we might like to get into. I started with BBLOG<\/a>, a simple interface for on-line posting and after a while I discovered WordPress<\/a> which resulted in our launching of the blog platform we now employ.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in an earlier post, now that we have upgraded the WordPress Theme to Blogstream<\/a>, we’ve become inclined to post more regularly. Maybe we’ll be here for the NEXT* seventeen years?<\/p>\n

* I should be well into nonagenarian territory by then.<\/p>\n

First Day of Autumn<\/h5>\n

\"\"<\/a>We learned from our landscape crew foreman when we first moved here that Arizona (our part of it, at least) has five seasons: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer and Second Spring<\/a>. The latter starts up around the September Equinox and lasts several weeks until the first autumn-like days show up in late October. The (clickable) image of the “Devil’s Tongue<\/a>” cactus shows how it looked last year at the beginning of “Second Spring,” with one open flower and several buds around the crown of this barrel cactus.<\/p>\n

In closing, we wish for you all to have mild weather, blue skies and green lights this fall season. We’re going to gird our loins for the return of the “snowbirds<\/a>” that typically increase our local population from around 7K summertime heads to more than 25K during the late fall, winter and early spring months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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