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 18, 2026
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Category Archives: Home Projects
August 29, 2026
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Relishing Saturday
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 … Continue reading
August 21, 2026
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Homemade Hot Sauce with Garden Peppers
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 … Continue reading
August 15, 2026
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OpenSense Hardware Built Testing
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 … Continue reading
August 3, 2026
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Stocking The Fridge Cupboard Squash Bread Bacon
Home projects with a bit of self sustainability, gardening and preservation squash, making bread and bacon. Continue reading
July 18, 2026
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One XCP-ng Virtualization Server in Rack
One of my custom built XCP-ng virtualization servers is finally in my rack, connected and working. I will soon have my hallway space mostly back which is where they have been running serving up my virtual environment for the past … Continue reading
July 12, 2026
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Moved C7000 Blade Server From Rack
After performing a successful clone using Clonezilla of my physical BL460 Gen7 blade that was my W2019 Data Center server with Sam Broadcaster that served as my music server, it was time to move my C7000 blade chassis out of … Continue reading
May 10, 2026
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Tidied Up the Gardens and Front Yard Pool
Pulled weeds in vegetable and flower gardens, trimmed bushes can plus did some extra work on the pool. Got a lot done in the yard before the weeds could take hold with the veggies starting to hit growth spurts. The … Continue reading
April 11, 2026
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2026 Gardens Have Started
Been building up the soil and redoing a few items and moving forward with my gardens. Progress adding more soil nutrients and mixing them into the soil. Redoing irrigation. Moved a grape vine from growing around irrigation controls. Tweaked irrigation … Continue reading
January 18, 2026
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Winter Garden Clean Up Planting
I removed a lot of weeds and this is a great time to get rid of more of mint roots. Still paying for putting mint in the garden years later instead of an enclosed area. I then planted some thyme, … Continue reading
