July 9, 2019
by dhoytt
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After coming back from overseas abruptly for personal reasons came back to an overgrown vegetable garden with ruined sprinklers. First I pulled the big weeds, then, repaired the drip system in the backyard, then watered a while used a semi-operational … Continue reading
June 10, 2018
by dhoytt
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Collard greens, bell peppers, green beans, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, Swiss Chard with basil and mints
May 20, 2018
by dhoytt
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This is how I do my spring and summer dinners grabbing vegetables/herbs from the garden to the oven then the plate. Today I have a mixture of different types of Swiss chard, mustard greens, collards, sweet basil, Thai basil, rosemary, … Continue reading
May 13, 2018
by dhoytt
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Removed last years stalks of collard greens earlier this week since they were going to seed and this years collard greens are growing rapidly. The collards from last year I let go a bit longer than normal and the stalks … Continue reading
February 17, 2018
by dhoytt
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With this unexpected warm spell I decided to get my garden ready. I was going to try some greenhouse techniques for the cold days of winter anyway so I just prepped the whole garden. Would have been done last week … Continue reading
January 20, 2018
by dhoytt
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Well today I changed ISP’s, away from Consolidated Communications 100mb up and down to AT&T‘s gigabit service up and down. I have been using Consolidated in some form since 2000 or 2001 when they were Winfirst except a brief moment … Continue reading
March 18, 2017
by dhoytt
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Ready for mulch after doing a little pick and weed work. After doing pick work went to local spot to get compost or mulch but they were out so went to big box hardware\outdoor supply store to get some bags … Continue reading
March 24, 2016
by dhoytt
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Yes for all you IT folks this is the original way to perform a “root cause analysis” in a real garden pulling out handfuls of real roots that are causing me grief! l started on the garden over the weekend … Continue reading
March 24, 2016
by dhoytt
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My UPS’s I updated and put into working order a couple of weekends ago are operating just fine though I may get one more just to spread the load out a bit better. I have 2 Liebert GXT2-1500rt120 and 1 GXT2-1000 each … Continue reading
May 15, 2008
by dhoytt
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Why was Pirut replaced as the default front end in Fedora 9 by an unfinished package like PackageKit? I understand the current move from under the wing of Red Hat and more into the Fedora community with Fedora releases but … Continue reading