October 18, 2026
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Still getting a decent harvest for herbs, peppers, eggplants and a few tomatoes.
Trying to find new ways to use my harvest I’m making some tinctures with my rosemary and basil.
October 16, 2026
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My ssl site certificates expired as GoDaddy has updated to DV ssl certificates due to what’s supposed to be a better experience, encryption, coverage of multiple sites, SEO rankings etc. Will be interesting to see how they work. Since that took place I decided to update my music server(w2025 data center), music relay servers (Fedora Linux 44) and my web server (Rocky Linux 9.x) OS’. I updated my WordPress along with the themes and plugins as well.
The music relay servers certificates were also updated so you can listen to the music @ https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/with confidence securely.
October 2, 2026
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Peppers from the garden piling up again so I made some more hot sauce! Used a different method without a fermentation period so will see how it goes.
Here’s the colorful pictures.
September 29, 2026
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Went to the last Dodgers series of baseball at Oracle Park in SF for all three games. I normally catch all games of a baseball series I go to.
Took the Amtrak and stayed in the SF two nights. The Dodgers won all 3 games for the sweep and 100 wins.
As always I sat in 3 different places for each game.
Clam steamers.
September 13, 2026
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Nothing like being anchored up hoping to catch a salmon or even get a bite and then sea lions explode around your anchored boat body slamming and devouring salmon!
August 29, 2026
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Created two different relishes today with produce from my garden. I did a hot pepper relish and a sweet cucumber relish.
Both relishes were pretty simple and I started with the pepper relish first. A mixture of Jalapeños, Serrano, Habanero and chili peppers, garlic, onion, vinegar, mustard seeds, sugar and salt. Chop together and heat on the stove, simmer and throw on a jar. Tasted sooo good and had a great bite of heat with lots of flavor!
The pickle relish was a similar process except I used the food processor for the ingredients of cucumbers (seeded), peppers, and onions plus added celery seeds minus garlic. Once again tasted fantastic!
During part of this process I was tasting which vinegar to use and the effect was that the vinegar seemed to help this sinus allergy type malaise I was having! Tasting the hot relish seemed to relieve the sinus pressure the medicine I had taken didn’t immediately! Amazing what happens on trying different things!
Hope to do more of this canning and preserving my produce from my garden!
August 21, 2026
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I decided to updated my Rocky 9.x virtual server and WordPress version to their latest an that went much faster than in the past on my hypervisor servers I built the first of this year. My blade chassis I had been using previously were beefy (7 years old) but the new hardware I have noticed updates of my virtual servers is extremely fast. They went so fast I decided to update the XCP-ng hypervisor servers themselves and since they had kernel updates I decided to reboot onto the new kernel.
Since my I now run my music server as a virtual system and not a physical system I was wondering why I couldn’t migrate from one system to the other and then I recalled I had a USB pass-through so it couldn’t migrate to the other hypervisor so I shutdown the music temporarily for the reboot. Then brought the server back up on my master XCP-ng hypervisor once it was back up. I then migrated the VMs off of the slave XCP-ng hypervisor patched it and rebooted onto the new kernel. Now migrating some Vms back to the XCP-ng slave evening the virtual machines between the two hypervisors.
August 21, 2026
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Always expanding my repertoire, this time by creating hot sauce with peppers from my garden! Was mostly jalapeño, some Seranto and a bit of chili peppers.
I fermented for about 10 days and then blended with the brine for more liquidity plus it seems like it had a good portion of the heat.
The sauce isn’t as hot as I expected but has a good light taste. Can’t wait to use it on some food. Tonight I’ll try on some wood fired left over chicken!
August 15, 2026
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Received all of my parts to build my OpenSense router and firewall this week. Put it all together and got it fired up and connected to the networks I want but not controlling anything just yet as I learn what OpenSense can do for my environment.
This is a mini ATX system. Consisting of the following:
Onward with the testing!
August 3, 2026
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Getting the squash from the garden preserved and bacon made at home, ready for the upcoming months. Making my 5th loaf of squash bread as well.
The bacon I wet brined in a vacuum sealed bag for 10 days in my custom brine. I tasted a piece and may be my best bacon so far!
Next my latest loaf of squash bread it this time I used granulated sugar instead of brown sugar. Tastes good but I prefer it with brown sugar.
Next I cut up some squash from the garden flash freezing it for a couple of hours, then vacuum sealed.
