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Having driven a 1966 VW bug, 1969 van, 1972 bug, dasher, 72 van, in my early years, then Lynda and I drove the van and Penelope till we got Goldie.  Then Goldie died and we got snowball. Later we bought shadow our most expensive car to date.  Shadow and Goldie served us for years till we got hit heading to La Verne. That lead us to Lexie. Lexie served is well until a furlough Friday when her transmission failed.  

Going through these hundreds of snapshots, I'm reminded about some of our design principlles in going from the old house to new house. No 70's wallpaper, no vinyl floor patterns, easy cat cleanup, no electric range, no brown tile, no clutter, no slipping on bricks, no dark woods, no carpet, filtered air, filtered water, better and more lighting. 

Even the cats got a new wall library out of the deal.

After we moved the propane tank, we knew we wante to stop using the wood burning stove and the old fireplace was never utilized. So, we did a fireplace insert with gas and we've never regretted it. I've updated the thermostat to work with our home automation tools and we can heat the front room in 10-15 mins.  We used Woodstove and Sun and we'll use them again for the firepit supplies when that project gets scoped.

After the septic was replaced and hillsides graded and a lot of brush removed, Ken suggested we hydroseed to protect the open hillside. This gave ua a great bloom of wildflowers and grass.

What was surprising was that Morgan Karst of Superior Hydroseeding was someone I went to high school with.

We did a lot of work on grading the property with Ken Clausing of A+ Construction. He and his crew replaced our septic lines, removed a lot of brush, graded a swale, graded a place for the propane tank, removed stumps and gave us lots of good advice for mountain livin'.

These initial grading projects helped us get a handle on managing the rain and brush that grow relentlessly. We did later projects that used these basic grading projects to build out terraces and increase our firebreak.

As I continue to study the MEAN.JS framework, I wanted to develop an app that would help cement what I've learned, illustrate some of the points I got hung up on and try to define problems well enough that I can try to get some more help where needed.

The failed septic system in late May 2012, got us started on a number of projects. Ken Clausing of A+ Construction was nice enough to come up that day. This is the project that started it all...

One of my objectives with migrating data out of Drupal and into a MEAN stack app is for easier management of downstream requests for JSON data. We want to take advantage of the built in functionality of the MeanJS stack, and here's a simple exaple.

In this use case we wish to expose articles to some other app who will make a HTTP GET request for all the articles or just one.

In app/controllers/articles.server.routes.js, we need to add entries for the two functions we'll allow via GET.

app.route('/api/articles')

.get(articles.list);

Created a norcal.cities.geojson file via geojson.io site.

In this tutorial we will load a small data set into MongoDB and build a simple map that adds a marker to a map. There is some preparation for this tutorial, so you will need the following:

- a working MeanJS environment

- created an Article in your working environment

- be prepared to do some find / replace in the GeoJSON data file attached to this tutorial

- be able to run commands from the terminal to load data into MongoDB via mongoimport and install angular-leaflet-directive

Well, I'm no expert but here's a tip that might save you some time. I have a Drupal databae outputting valid GeoJSON data. Our data looks like this:

{

"type": "Feature",

"geometry": {

"type": "Point",

"coordinates": [

-122.0570486784,

36.99607280576

]

},

"properties": {

"name": "Dean of Students Office",

"description": null,

"Food Type": "",