Jamie Thingelstad

Prepared for an evening of shark fishing.

Sunset on the Gulf.

• 7:36a Alarm off so we can get on the road.
• Drive to hardware store.
• Peachey’s donuts!
• Botanical gardens
• Drive to Anna Maria Island.
• Check in at Airbnb.
• Attempted dinner at The Waterfront but had long wait.
• Buy a fun shovel for the beach.
• Dinner at pizza place.
• Ice cream.
• Walk along the beach until sunset.
• Jamie puts together Weekly Thing. Tyler suggests cards and the three of them have a lot of laughs playing Sevens, Blackjack, and BS.

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We are not going to get a sunset tonight. Will try again tomorrow night!

Instagram walls. sigh 😔

View from the door of our Airbnb on Anna Maria Island for the next four days. 🤩🏖️

We first discovered Peachey’s Donuts at the Minnesota State Fair where we enjoyed the delicious treats — not once, or twice, but three separate occasions. Our family likes donuts! 😁

But Peachey’s “home base” is actually Sarasota, Florida and that is where Spring Break was bringing us this year. Tammy made sure our travel plans aligned so that we could make a stop and have our breakfast on the road. A bonus was that we got to try the pretzel as well — it was incredible!

If you see a Peachey’s truck anywhere near you. Go there!

• 6:00pm Joe picks us up to go to MSP.
• Dinner at Settebello Pizzeria in the airport.
• Said “Hi!” to Kim and Tony at airport!
• Boarded DL1119 for Orlando.
• Pilot delayed pushing back to let several people who were very late get on.
• Delayed push back then collides with storm that grounds us for an hour.
• Queue of flights to take off after air traffic control paused take offs.
• Switch to eastern time.
• Arrive in Orlando at 1:10am.
• Get luggage, get rental car.
• Make way to nearby Holiday Inn for one night.
• Get to sleep at 2:30a.

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Family selfie at MSP! ✈️

Departing soon for Spring Break in Florida! 🛫

Digging the Challenge Coin that I received from @mtt today. Thank you! Pictured here alongside another challenge coin I got from Elwin Loomis. Someday I’m going to mint my own!

When I signed up to host this IndieWeb Carnival it was several months in the future and I thought it would be simple to put a theme together and run the carnival. As it approached I started to feel like the theme I had in mind wasn’t a theme but more a topic and wasn’t going to be big enough for a whole carnival. I explored a bunch of avenues for different options and wasn’t finding anything I loved.

I decided to ask the family over dinner. They had no idea what a blog carnival is, but that is fine. Right away Tammy suggested Renewal. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere it is Spring and it has that feeling of renewal. As we rolled it around more I liked it more. It is April, it is Spring, and it is a time of renewal.

The theme of renewal resonated with me because it can apply to so many things. Renewal could happen in a day or a year. It could apply to your relationships, yourself, your digital world, whatever you want. We can point a desire for renewal anywhere we like.

• We can renew the bonds of our most treasured and intimate relationships.
• Connecting more with friends and family renews those relationships.
• Watching the plants come to life after a long winter sparks thought of renewal.
• I think after decades of commercialized and surveilled social networks on the web it is time for a renewed focus on writing, publishing, and people.

Do you have a story of renewal to share? Is there a need for renewal that you see and a way to make that happen? How do you approach renewal?

Everyone and anyone is welcome to participate in this IndieWeb Carnival. Share your stories of renewal and send a webmention to this page and email me to submit your posts. I will share a list of all posts!

I’m very happy with these Ukrainian Tryzub Trident pins that I ordered from ShopUA 1000. Made in Ukraine. 🇺🇦