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  • Let’s Garden 2019

    Let’s Garden 2019

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    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…

  • The New Frontier… 4K

    The New Frontier… 4K

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    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…

  • Pi-hole!

    Pi-hole!

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    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…

  • Kohler Malleco faucet

    Kohler Malleco faucet

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    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…

  • Let’s Encrypt auto renewal

    Let’s Encrypt auto renewal

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    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…

  • Waffles & Pancakes

    Waffles & Pancakes

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    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…

  • Tortillas

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    Grandpa Ward’s Tortillas Makes 8 2 cups Flour 1 tsp. Salt 2 heaping tsp. Baking Powder 2 tbsp. Shortening 3/4 cups Water

  • Spare Bedroom Wall Bed

    Spare Bedroom Wall Bed

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    Wall Bed Idea spawned from Handyman Magazine. Long before Brother was born, the family had a dilemma. We wanted to give the kids each a bedroom and so we had three bedrooms but had four functions that needed to be retained and that meant two rooms had to be combined, namely the tertiary rooms, home office…

  • Steak Seasoning

    Steak Seasoning

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    4 Steaks Ingredients 4 16-ounce T-Bone Steaks at room temperature 4 teaspoons Salt, or to taste 2 teaspoons Paprika 1-1/2 teaspoons Ground Black Pepper 3/4 teaspoon Onion Powder 3/4 teaspoon Garlic Powder, or to taste 3/4 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper, or to taste 3/4 teaspoon Ground Coriander, or to taste 3/4 teaspoon Ground Turmeric, or to…

  • Personal Computers

    Personal Computers

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    Dell T30 Hardware Motherboard Dell T30, Onboard SATA, HDD connected to onboard SATA Controller CPU Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz, 3M cache, 2C/2T, no turbo (54W) CPU cooler Heatsink T30 RAM a:4GB UDIMM, 2400MT/s, Single Rank, x8 Data Widthb:Hynix DDR4 4GB PC4-2133P 2133 Memory RAM HMA451U6AFR8N non-ECC UDIMMc:HyperX Kingston Technology Fury 2400MHz DDR4 Non-ECC CL15 DIMM…