2023-03-25 Garden Log
Today I planted three varieties of peas near each fence post along the “new garden fence”, and somewhat randomly in the main garden. I used a digging bar to create a small hole and added several seeds from each of the three seed bags to each hole. The digging bar was necessary to puncture the …
Setting up NextCloud on Ubuntu 22
These are my notes on setting up NextCloud on Ubuntu 22. There are optional steps for setting up a self-signed SSL certificate or a certificate from letsencrypt.org. If you do not use SSL immediately, disable the https redirect in the Apache configuration file. These instruction assume that MyNextCloud.com and www.MyNextCloud.com properly resolve to a valid/routable …
LightSail VPS WordPress notes
I recently moved a couple WordPress-based websites from an older Amazon Linux 2 based LightSail VPS to a newer Ubuntu 22 based VPS. These are my notes in case I want to refer to them later (with some info redacted for posting publicly). Ensure you can access and edit the domain records since the IP …
Denver, March 2023
Laurie and Lee were planning a trip to California, but it got canceled due to some severe weather that was expected in the area they were going to travel to. So they stayed in the area and we took a mini vacation to the Denver area. Lee has been interested in transportation systems lately, so …
Some transplanting, March 2023
Just a quick update on the grow tent. I had a small pot with Virginia Creeper grown from seeds collected in the area. The seedlings were doing really well and I needed to separate them. I had a similar situation with a pot of Lilacs (I think the seeds for these came from the lilacs …
Snowplowed over fence, 2023
Every year the snow plow drivers get way off the road and plow over my fence (and trees, etc.). Every year I try and fix it. This gets expensive and time consuming. They also block off my driveway with blocks of ice, dirt and rocks several feet high. This is a “service” we have to …
