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Birds and more birds

I'm not great at capturing birds, it requires silence and patience. While I can be both, I usually have a little one with me and they have a MUCH harder time with both, but especially the silence part.

Lots of Beautiful Flowers

I really like taking photos of flowers. Landscapes, macro, etc.

This is a photo dump of a selection of these that I have in my archive that I wanted to get out there. Some are posted elsewhere on the site, but most are just pretty.

Not all baking works out - cookies

They are flat

Not all baking works out all the time. This weekend my two cookie projects didn’t work out at all. The second recipe is pictured above.

I’m not sure what I did wrong, but it may have been beaten too much or the pan was in the wrong place …

Spring is here along with BBQ

A couple weeks ago we had a pork shoulder, and rather than roasting it in the @KamadoJeff like we would normally, we did it in the oven.

A few steak on the grill

It was delicious, and there was the added benefit of the pork fat drippings that we saved for cooking.

However, this weekend I …

Distancing Supper - Pork Shoulder

A plate of pulled pork with some fixins'

Over the last week we have been eating great. Batch cooking some days, and scratch cooking others.

Yesterday we had no idea what we were going to have and that turned into this. Roasted pork shoulder from the freezer, corn fried in pork fat, onions, garlic powder and some herbs …

Today's attempt at bread

I made bread yesterday too, but today's looks a lot better.

Yesterday's attempt wasn't kneaded enough and I used too much flour on the board when I was punching down and forming the loaf.

Windows File Sharing Stops Working

I bought my first NAS nine years ago. I built my first computer that was dedicated to network file sharing 8 years ago, and I have been running UnRAID for probably 5 years now. Until Windows 10 file sharing has been relatively straightforward, since Windows 10 however it has been …

That Time I went to Australia

This was a trip that I was able to make by volunteering with IEEE Canada and attending Sections Congress when it was in Sydney, Australia.