I've slacked off on the blogging, put not on production in the last three months..The renewal process with SS kind of threw me off and it's taken me awhile to get back into the swing of things here.
Last month my little family said goodbye to winter with one last sledding expedition down our backyard and in the same day hello to spring by watching the toddler jump in new puddles in the front yard. We did have one last cold snap and the King and I pulled the sled out for one last adventure in the woods and on the hills. When he grew tired of walking in the snow covered trails I set him on the sled and pulled him along behind me. I'm fresh out of rope, but I was able to improvise by pushing a pine bough through two holes at the head of the sled. A twist of the stick held the bough in place and the plastic held against the friction and pulling action. I was pleased and my lad enjoyed the ride through our last glimpse of winter wonderland.
Now that spring has arrived I take him out to our piece of the greenbelt and we fill trash bags full of aluminum cans, discarded bottles and styrofoam. He observes me, and without any instruction or prodding he joins in the green care with me. His power of observation makes me proud.
I'm plodding along with front-end web design. Last night I completed code academy's jQuery course. Finally, $ is no longer a mystery and I am now a master at completing $(document).ready(function() { $('elementToEffect').event(function() { $(this).thingToAffect(parameters); )}; )};
My next big project is incorporating Google maps with third party APIs to display neighborhood details. Time to learn Knockout JS by going through its documentation and then hit this project hard.