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Pan Pizza Night

This is the first pan pizza night in a while. I use a Kenji Lopez-Alt recipe from Serious Eats for the dough.

Using GIT for Deployment

At first I was developing this site, and all my python projects, using WSL2 but I was starting to find working between operating systems tedious. So I put everything on the base windows OS and kept going.

A wander in the Urban Barrens

For something to do, and to help the baby nap we went for a drive. The idea was to head to a path around town, maybe Hemlock Ravines, but when we got there the small parking lot was packed. We didn't feel like being around so many people so we …

Installing Pelican for the first time again

I already did this for this page and my company, but I'm moving our family archive too.

Step One Set Up the Python environment

First, set up your environment, I'm using pipenv install , you may be doing something else.

Step two, Install Pelican and plugins

Then install pelican and the …

Bluejays in the backyard

There was a bluejay in the background and they were a pain to get a picture of. These are the only ones that kind of turned out.

Bluejay through the bushes.