August 29, 2026
by dhoytt
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Relishing Saturday

Created two different relishes today with produce from my garden. I did a hot pepper relish and a sweet cucumber relish.

Both relishes were pretty simple and I started with the pepper relish first. A mixture of Jalapeños, Serrano, Habanero and chili peppers, garlic, onion, vinegar, mustard seeds, sugar and salt. Chop together and heat on the stove, simmer and throw on a jar. Tasted sooo good and had a great bite of heat with lots of flavor!

The pickle relish was a similar process except I used the food processor for the ingredients of cucumbers (seeded), peppers, and onions plus added celery seeds minus garlic. Once again tasted fantastic!

During part of this process I was tasting which vinegar to use and the effect was that the vinegar seemed to help this sinus allergy type malaise I was having! Tasting the hot relish seemed to relieve the sinus pressure the medicine I had taken didn’t immediately! Amazing what happens on trying different things!

Hope to do more of this canning and preserving my produce from my garden!

Starting the pepper relish.

The pepper relish is simmering.
Pepper relish to the right cucumber relish to the right.

August 29, 2026
by dhoytt
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Relishing Saturday

Created two different relishes today with produce from my garden. I did a hot pepper relish and a sweet cucumber relish.

Both relishes were pretty simple and I started with the pepper relish first. A mixture of Jalapeños, Serrano, Habanero and chili peppers, garlic, onion, vinegar, mustard seeds, sugar and salt. Chop together and heat on the stove, simmer and throw on a jar. Tasted sooo good and had a great bite of heat with lots of flavor!

The pickle relish was a similar process except I used the food processor for the ingredients of cucumbers (seeded), peppers, and onions plus added celery seeds minus garlic. Once again tasted fantastic!

During part of this process I was tasting which vinegar to use and the effect was that the vinegar seemed to help this sinus allergy type malaise I was having! Tasting the hot relish seemed to relieve the sinus pressure the medicine I had taken didn’t immediately! Amazing what happens on trying different things!

Hope to do more of this canning and preserving my produce from my garden!

Starting the pepper relish.

The pepper relish is simmering.
Pepper relish to the right cucumber relish to the right.

August 29, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Relishing Saturday

Relishing Saturday

Created two different relishes today with produce from my garden. I did a hot pepper relish and a sweet cucumber relish.

Both relishes were pretty simple and I started with the pepper relish first. A mixture of Jalapeños, Serrano, Habanero and chili peppers, garlic, onion, vinegar, mustard seeds, sugar and salt. Chop together and heat on the stove, simmer and throw on a jar. Tasted sooo good and had a great bite of heat with lots of flavor!

The pickle relish was a similar process except I used the food processor for the ingredients of cucumbers (seeded), peppers, and onions plus added celery seeds minus garlic. Once again tasted fantastic!

During part of this process I was tasting which vinegar to use and the effect was that the vinegar seemed to help this sinus allergy type malaise I was having! Tasting the hot relish seemed to relieve the sinus pressure the medicine I had taken didn’t immediately! Amazing what happens on trying different things!

Hope to do more of this canning and preserving my produce from my garden!

Starting the pepper relish.

The pepper relish is simmering.
Pepper relish to the right cucumber relish to the right.

August 24, 2026
by dhoytt
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Monday Evening Mellow

Let’s kick back with some mellow music this Monday riding melodies into the week.

Artist like Molly Ringwald, Grover Washington Jr., Xscape, John Coltrane and others will take you there with a wide range of genres woven from the decades of recorded sound.

August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
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More Maintenance Had to Shutdown Music Server Temporarily

Ended up updating the XCP-ng hypervisor virtualization server the music sits on which I made virtual this year. Since I passed through a physical USB it couldn’t migrate to the the other XCP-ng server.

You can read about it on another blog on this networked site.

August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
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Updated Web Server WordPress and XCP-ng Hypervisors

I decided to updated my Rocky 9.x virtual server and WordPress version to their latest an that went much faster than in the past on my hypervisor servers I built the first of this year. My blade chassis I had been using previously were beefy (7 years old) but the new hardware I have noticed updates of my virtual servers is extremely fast. They went so fast I decided to update the XCP-ng hypervisor servers themselves and since they had kernel updates I decided to reboot onto the new kernel.

Since my I now run my music server as a virtual system and not a physical system I was wondering why I couldn’t migrate from one system to the other and then I recalled I had a USB pass-through so it couldn’t migrate to the other hypervisor so I shutdown the music temporarily for the reboot. Then brought the server back up on my master XCP-ng hypervisor once it was back up. I then migrated the VMs off of the slave XCP-ng hypervisor patched it and rebooted onto the new kernel. Now migrating some Vms back to the XCP-ng slave evening the virtual machines between the two hypervisors.

August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
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Homemade Hot Sauce with Garden Peppers

Always expanding my repertoire, this time by creating hot sauce with peppers from my garden! Was mostly jalapeño, some Seranto and a bit of chili peppers.

I fermented for about 10 days and then blended with the brine for more liquidity plus it seems like it had a good portion of the heat.

The sauce isn’t as hot as I expected but has a good light taste. Can’t wait to use it on some food. Tonight I’ll try on some wood fired left over chicken!

Starting the canning.
It’s ready!
Starting to blend.
Blended and ready to bottle.

August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
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Doing Late Night Maintenance

Didn’t plan on doing maintenance but while moving some networking equipment around I disconnected some items so took advantage and updated the Fedora Linux music relay server for IceCast and ShoutCast plus the W2025 that stacks the music, runs the database and streams, provides the encoders that the relay servers stream.

Backup and streaming and evrything appears normal now.

August 15, 2026
by dhoytt
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Late Night August Slow Jams

Feeling good with the evening breezes just getting out of the pool wanting that mellow flow to match the Norther California Delta Breeze we get in the evening.

Already in the mix listening to artist like AlB Sure, Pussycat Dolls and looking to forward to Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, Silk Sonic Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Prince, Coldplay and so much more!

August 15, 2026
by dhoytt
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OpenSense Hardware Built Testing

Received all of my parts to build my OpenSense router and firewall this week. Put it all together and got it fired up and connected to the networks I want but not controlling anything just yet as I learn what OpenSense can do for my environment.

This is a mini ATX system. Consisting of the following:

  • Mini ITX Computer Case with PCIE 4.0 X16 GPU Riser Cable and Flex ATX PSU 600W
  • SK Hynix 32GB (4x8GB) 2Rx8 PC4-2133P HMA41GR7MFR8N-TF SERVER RAM RDIMM ECC
  • Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F motherboard DDR4 128G VGA Mini-ITX
  • INTEL X540-T2 10GB 2-PORT NETWORK Card
  • Patriot Burst Elite 120gb SSD drive.

Onward with the testing!