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Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

Spanish learner and teacher (97.3% retired). Gardener. Don of all trades. I live in SW Iowa, USA, with my wife and our cat.
#OriginalMusic <> #DonRaySongs
 #Iowa #Guitar #Garden #Spanish #EspaΓ±ol #Prairie #SongWriter #Spain #Valencia #EspaΓ±a
Avatar: 2-D Red Fox logo superimposed on a circular map of the Earth. 
Header Image: American Goldfinch on a water dish on a cold day.


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Blog: Don Ray's World
https://donraysworld.org
Original Music
https://dray3.webnode.page/don-ray-songs/
30 Year Farm Project
https://dray30yearfarm.webnode.page/
Ukulele Website
https://mrrayukulele.webnode.page/
Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

Don Ray Songs (#DonRaySongs)
I've started an ongoing project to record my original songs to share on Mastodon.

My Recording Equipment (pictured)
An Olympus LS-10 digital recorder and a Shure SM58 microphone.

My Instruments
An Art and Lutherie nylon-stringed guitar (cedar top, made in Canada). An Amahi Banjolele (Banjo-Ukulele).

Mastodon Version
Brevity is a virtue on the Fedi, so I'm recording the songs without instrumental breaks.

I hope you'll enjoy these
#DonRaySongs


Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

Mastodon / Fediverse question.

Home, Local, and Global (Federated) Timelines. Did those options disappear?

On the desktop version of Mastodon, there used to be (as of 2 days ago) a menu item, "Live Feeds," to choose which feed to browse. Now it's not there.

(If anyone knows a pertinent hashtag for this question, please put it in a comment. Thanks.)
#FediTips @FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Here’s the response from the admin:

β€œWe are actually planning to disable the "live feeds" functionality on both mastodon.social and mastodon.online as it generally provides a poor method of discovering good posts and often has a lot of spam. (It's a new feature so we're testing it at the moment on mastodon.online.)”

My comment would be: It’s interesting to say that removing something is a β€œnew feature.”

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

Mastodon / Fediverse question.

Home, Local, and Global (Federated) Timelines. Did those options disappear?

On the desktop version of Mastodon, there used to be (as of 2 days ago) a menu item, "Live Feeds," to choose which feed to browse. Now it's not there.

(If anyone knows a pertinent hashtag for this question, please put it in a comment. Thanks.)
#FediTips @FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

Don Ray Songs (#DonRaySongs)
I've started an ongoing project to record my original songs to share on Mastodon.

My Recording Equipment (pictured)
An Olympus LS-10 digital recorder and a Shure SM58 microphone.

My Instruments
An Art and Lutherie nylon-stringed guitar (cedar top, made in Canada). An Amahi Banjolele (Banjo-Ukulele).

Mastodon Version
Brevity is a virtue on the Fedi, so I'm recording the songs without instrumental breaks.

I hope you'll enjoy these
#DonRaySongs

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Gatos

A minor
#blep for #TongueOutTuesday.

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #NativePlants #Trees #Iowa

Confusion. The Gray Dogwood is putting forth a few new flower clusters (spring in August). The Hydrangea did the same. In a few weeks, I expect I'll see a few Lilac blossoms as well.

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

#PhotoMonday #Butterfly #Pollinators #Flowers #Iowa

Pearl Crescent; Burning Hearts

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

#Vegetables #Gardening #summer #iowa #alliteration

With Sunday supper
a side
of sautΓ©ed
summer stuff.

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

#Spain #EspaΓ±a #Valencia #lion

#WorldLionDay reminds me of the mail slots on the side of the grand Post Office building in Valencia. (Photo: July 2010)

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

#SilentSunday #Sunrise #Iowa

Cottonwood Skyline

Don Ray
@donray@mastodon.online

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Gatos

A shady character.