March 22, 2025
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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
March 16, 2025
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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
April 13, 2023
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After all the storms, getting the fences back up plus other projects still in flight getting the backyard and vegetable garden in shape.
January 8, 2023
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During the “Atmospheric River” storms here out west in California I lost house power where I run my systems. I have not established a geographical fall over for these sites when my home systems go down as it hasn’t been … Continue reading
December 8, 2022
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I wanted to smoke this rack of lamb Sunday or the beginning of the week but couldn’t get to it . Turned out very good and I will be doing this again. I rubbed down with olive oil, then rubbed … Continue reading
December 6, 2022
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A cooking journey for the past month. Beef shanks mid-November, Thanksgiving juicy tender brisket and smoked Turkey. Monday red pepper/honey wings.Then reached into the freezer for vacuum packed pulled pork (tasted like I just cooked it after boiling the bag … Continue reading
July 29, 2021
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I made some changes on my Zoneminder server that also hosts Plex media server plus extended the drives on one of my virtual Plex media servers that also is a Salt master, plus had to extend my boot partition on … Continue reading
October 19, 2020
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I have moved everything around placing the large UPS’ in the rack and moving my FreeNAS systems and older R710 systems in the above them. I still have quite a bit to do like more cable management in incremental stages. … Continue reading
August 31, 2020
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Started Sunday staying up late Saturday into Sunday morning getting staged for preserving my garden vegetables and herbs. Then upon waking up my website was down so had to troubleshoot that by looking in the logs and it was an … Continue reading
July 15, 2020
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Wanted something different so decided to make a salad using my new professional mandolin using squash, sweet peppers, tomatoes and some salmon I smoked earlier this week. I didn’t really have a set recipe but estimated I used about 4 … Continue reading
