Yesterday we spent some time taking a mental break at Burris Creek near Black Butte Lake, CA.
We’re trying to propagate lemon grass after dividing canes from our outdoor plant (hope it overwinters). The centers of the canes have popped up — thinking this means positive water pressure and that may mean the canes are taking in water so this may work.
I disturbed this overwintering ladybug while cleaning up this past year’s Holy Basil growth.
Our Mandarin tree 🌳 is ready for as-needed harvest!
ImperfectFoods is trying to sell people on the produce I get at my rural grocery store: smaller, misshapen, definitely not the produce you’d find at Whole Foods or Raley’s. And this rural grocery store produce is way cheaper and just fine! 🤷♂️
This is a nightmare.
Caseta & Dimming LEDs
I replaced a Caseta dimmer switch with the non-dimming version as I’m installing a ceiling fan w/light soon. I’m getting used to tucking and bending wires just so and shoving the switch in with screws ratcheting it snugly in place.
I’ve found dimmer switches are difficult since they can’t have anything but lights as a load and those lights (especially LED) better be perfect in their dimming logic and signal response. And as you should never use non-dimming LEDs with a dimmer, I’ve had to buy new bulbs to replace young non-dimmable LEDs or buggy dimmable LEDs from a few years ago. So far the current crop of FEIT dimmables sold at my local Ace Hardware are fine.
I’m so over using dimmer switches.
Dealing with house wiring that makes me go “WTF THEY THINKING?” Don’t DIY if you don’t want to take the time to do it right…
I am really into For All Mankind.
Unearthed and powered up a Raspberry Pi 3. Took a bit of time to remember how I configured it for HomeBridge. Upgrading to Debian Stretch for the heck of it.
Cut down this years’ California fuchsias yesterday to encourage & release a new year of growth.
I’m pleased that MacOS 10.15’s Photos app reconstructs Live Photos from exported .heic and .mov pairs that I uploaded to my NAS via PhotoSync. 📱👍
I love Shortcuts. There goes a tedious repetitive task to oblivion!!📱
Side mirror view: tumbleweed on a front bumper.
Dancy Mandarins are so very close to perfect ripeness. Need to blush a bit more toward red.
A very good Mantis.
Never fails. This infernal badged Sys Prefs issue is so far the most annoying MacOS Catalina issue I’ve had. What services need iCloud to be logged back in? Why does MacOS forget so easily?
My favorite around-the-home power tool. Okay, besides my electric drill/driver.
An indoor aloe succulent growing a flower stalk.
A colorful sunrise and a fresh coat of snow on Snow Mountain, NorCal. I love my iPhone 11 Pro. No way my previous could have exposed these well enough for posting.
