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The door is on the greenhouse

2020-11-16 Jeff

The temperature is dripping quickly at night so I don’t know how many weeks we will have with it. But it’s ready for spring regardless.

microblogging diy, garden, greenhouse, homemade

And almost done

2020-11-08 Jeff

The plastic is on the collapsible greenhouse, the ikea shelves are assembled and we are almost ready for plants. All that is left is to build the door, and make a floor like structure.

microblogging garden, greenhouse, not Instagram

Flowers in the morning

2020-11-08 Jeff

microblogging

Collapsible greenhouse progress

2020-11-07 Jeff

A project I started a couple weeks ago is almost ready for “glazing”. Painting the roof and sides this afternoon.

microblogging diy, garden, greenhouse

Bruce MacKinnon still has it

2020-11-06 Jeff

Source Bruce MacKinnon’s and The chronically horrid

microblogging

Bruce MacKinnon still has it

2020-11-06 Jeff

Source Bruce MacKinnon’s and The chronically horrid

microblogging cartoon, politics, trump

Wandering in Labrador

2020-11-05 Jeff

From the archives, taken sometime in August 2019 in Pinware, NL

microblogging

A sunset from the archives

2020-11-02 Jeff

Not much to say today, work has been keeping me amazingly busy. I have also started to sort of work on a side project of a NAShosted version of a homepage. It was sparked as an idea when I saw a wayback Machine version of this site a few weeks ago. It won’t have frames, […]

microblogging not Instagram, sunset

Macro Bee

2020-08-25 Jeff

I’ve been trying to get a picture I like of a bee on a flower, and this is the first time I’ve been able to get one. I updated my now page this week.

microblogging bees, canon 60D, flowers, macro

Bees love sunflowers

2020-08-22 Jeff

The bees haven’t been all over the garden today.

microblogging bees, flowers, garden, not Instagram

Somedays need cake

2020-08-14 Jeff

microblogging baking, cake

The garden is bursting

2020-08-14 Jeff

microblogging flowers, garden

A walk in the park

2020-07-27 Jeff

microblogging pandemic, park, people

Another morning picture

2020-07-11 Jeff

This is another quick handheld picture with my Canon 60D. If I look closely there is always something to take a picture of.

microblogging dew, flowers, garden

So much reading

2020-07-03 Jeff

Recently I decided I wanted to read more. Read both fun books and learning books. I’m a start and stop type reader, I will read a dozen books and then put my reader down for a year. So my goal starting now is to read consistently, even if it’s only 15min. Forming Habits One of […]

Books Dresden, habits, Jodi Taylor, Laundry Files, learning, reading, The Chronicles of St. Mary's

Summer is coming in fast

2020-06-14 Jeff

The trees are full and the rhododendrons are in bloom, summer is here.

General Thoughts, microblogging flowers, rhododendrons, yard

Pandemic wine is bottled

2020-05-27 Jeff

It’s nothing special, but it’s nice for a home brew. It was actually ready to bottle a couple weeks ago, but we were a little busy to get to it. Hopefully those extra days clearing will reduce the aging a bit so we can start drinking it on the patio.

food, microblogging pandemic, wine

Not all baking works out – cookies

2020-05-09 Jeff

Not all baking works out all the time. This weekend my two cookie projects didn’t work out at all. The second recipe is pictured above. I’m not sure what I did wrong, but it may have been beaten too much or the pan was in the wrong place in the oven. It was my first […]

food, microblogging baking, cookie, cookies, homemade, recipes

Spring is here along with BBQ

2020-04-06 Jeff

Rib Steaks on a charcoal grill

A couple weeks ago we had a pork shoulder, and rather than roasting it in the @KamadoJeff like we would normally, we did it in the oven. It was delicious, and there was the added benefit of the pork fat drippings that we saved for cooking. However, this weekend I grilled steaks and they were […]

bbq charcoal, grilling, kamadojoe, ribeye, steak

Testing if Steempress is working

2020-03-30 Jeff

just ignore this if you are reading it on the blog. If you are reading it on www.steempeak.com/@jeffmackinnon it went there. If you are reading this on peakd.com/@jeffmackinnon that is where I expect you to read it.

General Thoughts steempress, testing

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Staying away from the socials

2021-01-22

Which is something i tried to do, but I joined TikTok for the shanties.

It’s a singing bird

If there was a WordPress plugin that supported “disappearing” stories and was able to distribute them via RSS feed.

And then there was a rss reader that was built to specifically show these in a modern way, I think that could be a big tech killer.

I miss summer

2021-01-21

A bee on a white flower
There were so much activity in the garden

That’s all, I miss summer in Halifax, even in 2020 it was the best time of the year.

A landscape picture of the  Halifax Commons with people outside

Today is a big day

2021-01-20

Not just for the USA, but for the world. Having a sane executive in the whitehouse is important for a predictable world.

Picture of  the town clock in Halifax, NS
Sometimes we just need a pretty picture

The start of baking day

2020-12-26

Visiting mummies

2020-12-23

We visited the NS Natural History museum yesterday especially for the mummies.

They were a hit.

Weekend oatcakes

2020-12-20

I really love warm oatcakes with old cheddar cheese. The perfect afternoon snack.

I don’t want to go back

2020-12-09

Between the time of me pouring the last pound of beans into the coffee grinder and boiling the kettle, I ordered another batch of coffee on my phone.

The Colombia is the go to, the Holiday Blend is something special

Not two hours later a bicycle courier shows up at the door with the order. This is amazing, and if you are in Halifax I highly recommend getting your coffee fix from Java Blend

There should never be a limit

2020-12-07

What possible reason should there be a limit on the password! Maybe a computer science person that can tell me.

Supper last night

2020-12-06

I wasn’t sure what we going to do with this shallow fried chicken strips, but we figured it out.

If anyone has tips for making excellent breading I’m all ears. The seasoning was pretty good, but the breading was weak.

I marinated them in butter milk for a wash before breading and frying.

Another dead hard drive

2020-12-03

This workhorse has started making grinding noises. It was a drive that came out of a laptop that I upgraded to an SSD a few years ago.

Its making grinding noises

Since then I have been using it as an archive drive, something that I dump backups on and then put it in a fancy shoebox just in case a backup dies. Well, this is why you should ALWAYS have three copies for importance things:

  1. The working copy (the one you use)
  2. The on-site backup (or cloud backup)
  3. The off-site backup (or a second cloud)

I like to keep a fourth “archive” backup, this is a backup that isn’t attached to a computer or network. A copy that will likely survive a massive EMP or CME.

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  • Atomic Habits by James Clear 2020-01-01

Who am I?

I have many interests and wear many hats. I'm a generalist at a lot of things and an expert at a few. I focus a lot of my time on power systems, reducing carbon emissions, electrifying everything, cooking, taking pictures and keeping the internet open and free.

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