January 18, 2026
by dhoytt
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Winter Garden Clean Up Planting

I removed a lot of weeds and this is a great time to get rid of more of mint roots. Still paying for putting mint in the garden years later instead of an enclosed area. I then planted some thyme, collard greens, snow peas and social garlic to prevent varmints from chewing on my plants.

These plants will go along with my plants doing well in the winter of mustard greens, Brussels sprouts, cilantro, Swiss chard, Bok Choi, rosemary, marjoram, oregano,peppermint sage, lavender and remaining peppers.

West side of the garden.
East side of the garden.
Mustards, garlic and social garlic newly planted.
Lavender, Brussel sprouts, social garlic, rosemary and newly planted collards.
Bok Choi, Swiss chard, peppers with black berries and grape vines in the background.

January 8, 2026
by dhoytt
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Best Batch Bacon So Far

This batch of homemade bacon might be the best batch I have made.

Carving it up I had to make a quick sandwich with avocado and egg. The bacon was nice thick with an easy bite through without any tug.

Was a nice flavor without too much salt and a nice smoked all around flavor. Had a little whiskey, bit of sweet, and mild pepper flavor.

December 27, 2025
by dhoytt
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Good Morning Eggs Benedict

Made a nice Eggs Benedict since I picked up some English muffins, plus have been playing with different Hollandaise sauce recipes.

I poached the eggs in a couple of ramekins pouring the additional egg whites leftover after separating the yolks used to make the hollandaise sauce.

Topped with avocado added some blueberries slightly smashed with a bit of brown sugar and voila!

December 11, 2025
by dhoytt
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Updated the Web Server OS and WordPress

I backed up the MySQL database of WordPress and then updated to 6.9 version of WordPress,then updated the OS patches which were quite a few including going to the latest kernel version on Rocky Linux 9.

I also updated my other Rocky Linux and Fedora Linux servers all except my primary Shoutcast/Icecast relay server. That’s several Rocky 9.x, Rocky 8.x and Fedora 41.

Logged into an old W2012 server trial version I only boot up within my Linux desktop that is currently at Fedora 42 in QEMU/KVM so I can run ILO to the old G7 bl460 blade server. After I’m done I shutdown that W2012 instance. That Bl460 g7 runs an instance of Zoneminder and PlexServer.

November 22, 2025
by dhoytt
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Chilled Late Night of Chilled Sounds

Let’s chill with some chilled sounds in this Wintry feeling late evening.

The Time, Lindsey Stirling, Laura Branigan, Charlie Parker, Stacy Latisaw, Giveon, Tracy Chapman and artists like that spread of genres an more.

November 15, 2025
by dhoytt
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Back Streaming the Music for Snakeice’s House of Beats

Well the Windows 2019 server took multiple reboots plus takes 5 times as long to boot since it physical server versus a VM like my Fedora Linux music Relay server.

Back up and running some Gumbo mixes from Snakeice’s House of Beats with artists like Miles Davis and Robert Glasper, Stylistics, Toni Braxton, ACDC, Run DMC, Green Day, Sweet Sensation ….

November 15, 2025
by dhoytt
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Updating Music Servers Snakeices House of Beats

Hate interrupting the musical flow I have set for this breezy Saturday at least here in California but I need to update my music servers of W2019 and my Fedora Linux music relay servers.

In the midst of some a nice mixed genre Saturday mix with jazz, R&B, Rock, Hip-Hop, Reggae even Country from all eras so its not a boring mix of one genre. Come back and I have mixed in some songs we haven’t heard in my mix in a while long with some of my favorites and new music.

Now its a race to see what servers reboot faster my Linux relay VMs or my physical W2019 server. The Linux relay server always win but you never know!