Flower and vegetable gardens growing well so far! Morning dew on roses and leaves. Continue reading
May 1, 2025
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April 17, 2025
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Chamomile Tea From Garden
Made some early season chamomile tea after accidentally pulling off a small portion while weeding my vegetable garden this evening. Normally I mix different herbs but it’s early to pull most herbs in my garden. This mistake was soothing and … Continue reading Continue reading
April 13, 2025
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New Fertilizer Delivery System Vegetable Garden
Trying the Chapin 16 oz Hydro Feed fertilizer injector in my vegetable gardens. Trying to use more organic fertilizer plus have other options if needed. The Miracle Grow system was nice but only can use their fertilizer and one version … Continue reading Continue reading
March 30, 2025
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New Flower Garden Plots
Finally finished the new gardens/plots for the backyard. I get to use my final sprinkler zone again finally I put in anticipation of something like this 18 years ago. Always plan ahead! Besides added scenery the flowers will complement my … Continue reading Continue reading
March 22, 2025
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Ducks on the Pool
These ducks have shown up a few times this time of the season the past several years. Have no idea how this got on their migration radar. Other pool owners in the area have similar occurrences. Comes the same day … Continue reading Continue reading
March 16, 2025
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Smoked Leg of Lamb
Smoked a leg of lamb Sunday and it was better than expected! Brined for about a week unexpectedly due to a busy schedule then slow smoked at 225 degrees Fahrenheit. Covered with garlic and rosemary in ghee butter took it … Continue reading Continue reading
March 14, 2025
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March Rains Workout Beats
Well what do we have here but another set of workout tunes for a Friday workout during some bad weather if your power is on! Forget this its not only for working out but just going around the house bumping the head and sliding around. I like it wild quite a bit but its all […] Continue reading
February 1, 2025
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Some Nice Mixed Genre Mellow Type Songs
Here at Snakeice’s House of Beats the mixed genre mixes are the norm so I’m doing this one to enjoy what appears to be the fix of the issues I had earlier this week updating things. Artists like Julian Lange, Linda Ronstadt, Jesse Lanza, D’Angelo, Simple Minds, just check in for a few mellow hours […] Continue reading
February 1, 2025
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Application Freezing Resolved for Now
That application freezing seems to be gone even after extended play of over 2.5 hours after my last change. Normally it shows up slightly in a half hour or less and gets wors as it moves on. I had ruled out database versions as I tried MariaDB 10.5 and 11.6. I didn’t want to try […] Continue reading
February 1, 2025
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Working on Fine Tuning Windows Streaming Application
After making the updates earlier this week of the streaming application SAM Broadcaster I started experiencing some freezes. I have made some audio changes in the application since the freezes happened between music changes and cross fades. I also ran maintenance on the databases as well as switched between 2 different versions of the database […] Continue reading