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First interesting Hurricane of the season

You heard it here first folks, I'm predicting that Ernesto will impact Nova Scotia in 7-10 days.

Immich reminded me of hurricane Ernesto, which missed us last year.

My spidey senses start to trigger if I see a hurricane that is tracking west of Bermuda, there is a much higher …

Alone with my computer

I read a post on mastodon sometime in the last couple weeks, I can't find it again but it was from someone that re-installed Linux on their main machine for the first time in 10 or more years. They said it felt like, and I'm paraphrasing, "Its nice to feel …

My Personal Collection of Memes

There are a lot of great memes that come across the internet, this is my collection. I have watermarked them mostly because I don't know how to add an exception to the Pelican-Photos plugin.

When able I have included the source link where I downloaded it from.

Random Thoughts by Jeff

There are a lot of things going on today, and I'm here thinking that MarkDown isn't a "good enough" markup language for a little blog like mine and RestructuedText was the only one for me. In fact I was waiting for a Pelican Plugin to be ready for RST before …

Autumn Backyard Birdfeeders

We didn't have a birdfeeder this year, there was just too many warnings from provincial natural resources about the amount of bird flu in the wild population, so instead we grew flowers.

During the summer there were a few birds, but mostly pollenators, now that autumn is in full swing …

Comments are working

A blog isn't a blog without comments. I tried to get around those semantics by calling this a homepage, but just because you say something doesn't make it true, even in 2022.

I knew this for a while and have tried different ways to take the discussion off the site …

Ants and aphids

I've heard of farmer ants before, but this year has been a special one. Typically I put out ant traps in early spring, but this year I forgot, and it has likely contributed to the bumper crop of aphids.

Finally a new fence

This weekend we built a new fence. We have been talking about doing it with our neighbours for a couple years now, but between COVID, the spike in lumber prices last year and life in general, we finally picked a date, it was the last weekend in April, but then …

Finally, a workflow I like with Lightroom

I am a big fan of lightroom classic, and still can't get into LightroomCC (or just Lightroom now). I have tried a couple of times, I'm not a professional photographer in any way so the online version should work well for me. In fact, the idea of doing some light …

The February Fake-out

Yesterday was another amazing false spring just like Wednesday (Thursday wasn't too shabby either). On my way home I crossed paths with my neighbour who described days like this as a February Fake-out. Thanks Cooper.

Another false spring day.

I was taking a quick stroll to help the baby nap, and came across this …