From 84d043c92523b02076a72d399ca845cdb09650f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zane Meyers <zanemeyers@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:50:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2025-09-26 15:50:46

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 .../plugins/recent-files-obsidian/data.json   | 36 +++++++++----------
 birds.md                                      | 23 ++++++++++++
 favorite-quotes.md                            | 22 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 birds.md
 create mode 100644 favorite-quotes.md

diff --git a/.obsidian/plugins/recent-files-obsidian/data.json b/.obsidian/plugins/recent-files-obsidian/data.json
index f33d58f..945e0c8 100644
--- a/.obsidian/plugins/recent-files-obsidian/data.json
+++ b/.obsidian/plugins/recent-files-obsidian/data.json
@@ -1,13 +1,29 @@
 {
   "recentFiles": [
     {
-      "basename": "grounding",
-      "path": "grounding.md"
+      "basename": "full-takeoff",
+      "path": "full-takeoff.md"
+    },
+    {
+      "basename": "favorite-quotes",
+      "path": "favorite-quotes.md"
+    },
+    {
+      "basename": "burndy_AYP300",
+      "path": "Assets/subfeeds/burndy_AYP300.png"
+    },
+    {
+      "basename": "birds",
+      "path": "birds.md"
     },
     {
       "basename": "README",
       "path": "README.md"
     },
+    {
+      "basename": "grounding",
+      "path": "grounding.md"
+    },
     {
       "basename": "feeders",
       "path": "feeders.md"
@@ -16,10 +32,6 @@
       "basename": "estimating-as-code",
       "path": "estimating-as-code.md"
     },
-    {
-      "basename": "full-takeoff",
-      "path": "full-takeoff.md"
-    },
     {
       "basename": "construction-estimating-software",
       "path": "construction-estimating-software.md"
@@ -187,18 +199,6 @@
     {
       "basename": "construction-estimating",
       "path": "construction-estimating.md"
-    },
-    {
-      "basename": "construction-estimating-using-excel",
-      "path": "construction-estimating-using-excel.md"
-    },
-    {
-      "basename": "design-build-budget",
-      "path": "design-build-budget.md"
-    },
-    {
-      "basename": "electrical",
-      "path": "electrical.md"
     }
   ],
   "omittedPaths": [],
diff --git a/birds.md b/birds.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e07ad9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/birds.md
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Birds I've Seen Around Here
+
+## [Order _Pelecaniformes_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelecaniformes)
+
+### [Family _Ardeidae_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeidae)
+
+* [great egret](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_egret)
+* [great blue heron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_blue_heron)
+* [green heron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_heron)
+
+* [little blue heron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_blue_heron)
+* [snowy egret](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_egret)
+
+### [Family _Threskiornithidae_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threskiornithidae)
+
+* [American white ibis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_white_ibis)
+* [roseate spoonbill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseate_spoonbill)
+
+## Other Orders
+
+* [anhinga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga)
+
+* [mallard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard)
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diff --git a/favorite-quotes.md b/favorite-quotes.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85b876d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/favorite-quotes.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Favorite Quotes
+
+## About Tools
+
+> [!quote] John Culkin, commonly attributed to Marshall McLuhan
+> We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us.
+
+> [!quote] _Walden_, Henry David Thoreau
+> Men have become the tools of their tools.
+
+> [!quote] Jeff Duntemann
+> A good tool improves the way you work.
+> A great tool improves the way you think.
+
+> [!quote] Alan Watts
+> We are sick with a fascination
+> for the useful tools of names and numbers,
+> of symbols, signs, conceptions, and ideas
+
+> [!quote] Paul Arden
+> If you get stuck, draw with a different pen.
+> Change your tools; it may free your thinking.