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.
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.
Weeds and some herbs were in need of trimming for my garden to make room for other vegetables. Mint and pineapple sage needed to be trimmed back to make room for squash and cucumbers where I had the 3 sisters of beans, corn and squash earlier.
I also elevated the squash and cucumber vines for more separation.
I want to be a bit more ready when I trim back plants in my garden to get them dehydrated right away. I wasn’t ready with prior batches of mint and rosemary when trimming them back.
Now the dehydrator has space on the cabinet down from the top of the cabinet, cleaned and ready to be utilized!
I put the pineapple sage on the bottom and the mint on top.
Trimmed mint and pineapple sage.Pineapple sage washed and pat dry.Mint washed ready for the dehydrator after drying.Pineapple sage.MintTop of dehydrator.Side view dehydrator.
One of my UPS went out (has a flaky controller) and then overloaded my other UPS’ for my servers and took down my NAS storage I use iSCSI with, the ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade servers I run the virtual environment of XCP-ng on as well as my ProLiant BL460c G7 I run my music from before streaming over my virtual relay music servers in XCP-ng.
For the UPS with the issue I unplugged it from the wall and disconnected from internal battery sources, put on battery support then plug in the internal connections to wall power to get it out of it’s seized up condition. I then plugged that problem UPS back into one of my dedicated 20amp circuits. After that my C7000 blade chassis had power to bring up all of my blade servers I use.
The chassis shows some warnings etc but when you have to scavenge and use the firmware versions available without contract that’s what you get sometimes. It has all been working splendidly for several years now. I will be soon moving off it back to individual rack mount servers soon though for power and performance especially now that I can readily get 10gb NICS and have several 10gbe switches in my environment outside of my c7000 chassis.
I also had to go into the bios of my SuperMicro NAS server and switch to a mirror boot device for it to come up. I will have to try to re-mirror that again in FreeNAS. Yes I have not yet gone up to TrueNAS but I’m planning on it real soon. Then I will up the capacity with new drives as well. This configuration lasted me almost five years.
Since the systems were down I decided to perform updates of the OS on my virtual web server running Rocky 9 and my music relay server running Fedora 41. I updated my W2019 Datacenter server as well but that required no boot and its running bare metal on one of my ProLiant BL460c G7 blade servers.
Servers are up and communicating with each other now to deliver my sites to the internet so I will continue to listen to my music from Snakeice’s House of Beats and fall off to sleep. I had a nice set started and was a couple of hours into it but I still have some setup for the next few hours then its on the scripts.
This is how the backyard gardens are looking currently.
Variety of roses, snap cone and marigolds flowers.Yellow roses, snap cone, snap dragon flowers.Red roses, asylums in front of east vegetable garden, check the squash, pineapple sage most visible.East vegetable garden.West vegetable garden.Closeups beefeater tomatoes and peppers.Red roses, marigolds, asylums, snaps with my veggies in the background. Basil, chives, oregano, mint, lemon grass, tarragon etc.White roses and cone flowers with struggling snap dragon.White roses foreground and marigolds in background along with red roses, asylums west vegetable garden.Cucumbers.Mint harvested.Mints from garden vacuum sealed until I can dry them.
I updated my internet facing sites here at dhoytt.com.
I updated my Web Server to the latest security OS Rocky 9.6 patches along with taking PHP to a version that gets proper security updates and are compatible with my WordPress themes and plugins. I then updated the plugins and themes as well as taking WordPress to its latest version and then updated all my network sites on WordPress..
In parallel I also updated my music relay servers for IceCast and ShoutCast which run on Fedora Linux 41 currently and my server they connect to that I use for my streaming application that on Windows 2019 currently.
All these integrated systems are up running and interacting together after these updates as they had been before but hopefully more responsive and secure.
Need to do more pickling to not waste so many cucumbers from my garden. I wait too long sometimes to include in salads, which leads to waste.
For this batch of pickling from the garden I included habanero, Anaheim peppers and basil along with garlic cloves from the store. Put the mixture in balsamic vinegar , salt, pepper and into a container.
I’ll try a different mixture for the next batch this was spur of the moment and I ended up immediately using some of the pickled cucumbers on a tri tip sandwich which was delicious.
The tri tip I cooked Monday.
Pickled cucumbers.Pickled cucumbers, avocado, tomato, basil on tri tip sandwich.Tri tip on the grill starting to smoke at 225.Searing off tri tip on gas grill in cast iron skillet.Tri tip was nice and tender at 138 after searing. Let rest for about 30 minutes.Tri tip salad from garden mostly and sweet potato.Tacos with tri tip basil from garden and avocado.
