Author: paul
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New Back Door
With the trip to CO coming very fast, Dad needed to get the new door in as quick as possible. With the help of his brother and mom, he got the old door out and the new door in. Seeing this as an opportunity to learn how to install an exterior door. The new door…
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Dial Cooler Controller Door
For those who have swamp coolers that are controlled by Dial’s electronic thermostats… You may have already experienced that the door has given up the ghost and the hinge tabs have broken off. I have found it is probably due to it being left open and somebody running into it and hyperextending it in all…
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Garage Door Opener all busted up
Several months ago, I replaced the double car garage door’s opener, it wasn’t too hard as I used the existing mounting hardware from the old opener. I followed the instructions, pinned up the new rail and lifted the motor unit to the hangers. I had a working garage door in about 3 hours. But as…
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Let’s Garden 2019
It is warm but still too early to start gardening here in the 505. This year we are trying something new. We built up a new raised garden a while back and now we have grid it out to do “square-foot” gardening… using high density squares, we have strategically picked plants to grow per square…
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The New Frontier… 4K
This all started when I received my first UHD BluRay disk. I was excited… I’ve always been a proponent of keeping content in the native resolution as the viewer’s screen and finally, I got a movie that from cradle to grave… is in 4K resolution. The first step is to rip it. I’ve quickly learned…
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Pi-hole!
Since the family is out of the house, Dad thought it would be non-consequential to offload the home network’s DNS requests from the router to an independent server. This idea has been a ‘stuck thought’ in my mind for a while as a colleague of mine, (I’m talking about you Scoot!) have been praising openDNS’s…
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Kohler Malleco faucet
One fine Wednesday. Dad comes home to find the kitchen faucet was completely not functioning… Mom wanted a silver colored faucet, with a pull down head, and has a touchless sensor. Remembering Costco has a sale on a certain kitchen faucet, he drove out to Costco with Mom’s requirements. MallecoTouchless pull-down kitchen sink faucet with…
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Let’s Encrypt auto renewal
First, I would suggest looking for all the commands to your specific setup here. But since I am running a combination of things that aren’t listed on that page, I had to dig elsewhere. Centos 7 should have epel already enabled but if not… Configure certbot with your specific setup Note: I don’t have a…
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Waffles & Pancakes
Ingredients 1 cup Flour 1/2 teaspoon Salt 2 teaspoon Baking Powder 2 teaspoon Sugar 1 Egg 1 tablespoon Liquid Shortening 3/4 cup Milk 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Preparation add Lemon Juice to Milk add Vanilla to Milk Directions Mix together…