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Mixed message The waiting room has this Spotify channel playing yet the coffee machine sits cold and ignored. I don’t know what the message is here but I want to leave and get a Starbucks. Maybe one to go?

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Photo of the Day: 2025-06-09 Cosmos starting to appear on the fence

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Photo of the Day: 2025-06-08 Foxglove among the heather

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Dill Pickled gerkins One of those things I always wanted to try: making my own pickles. They turned out great though I overdid the pickling spices. I admit that these aren’t cucumbers that I grew myself but I will definitely consider growing some next spring. I did grow the garlic pictured, or…

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Find 80: A well traveled Kuna The Salisbury plains awoke this morning under a sky of shifting greys, promising a day of fitful showers that never quite delivered, leaving the air damp and mild. The distant rolling hills, normally a vibrant and varied green, were instead a more uniform green under…

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View across the blooms A shot along the ceanothus, week two of the blooms. June 6th,2025

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Photo of the Day: 2025-05-26

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Cascade of Flowers My Viburnum (Korean spice) seems to be flowering for a second time this year. Only in places but quite surprising. And JJ‘s roses are cascading down the fence hindered only by pernicious snake vine that I spend a lot of time snipping and cutting and throwing away. It doesn’t…

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Impatient! I can’t wait for things to grow and fruit! Masses of blooms Our larger Ceanothus bush is in full bloom. The bumblebees love it! It overhangs my greenhouse and the back half of it is liberally sprinkled with pollen and petals. If the wind wasn't so strong right now I'd have to get out…

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Drip tray day I’ve had some trouble with printing recently that turned out to be a Z-offset issue. So just to test the new settings I printed a few smaller things and then chose this multi-level planter as a larger project. You know, just to get confidence back in my printer. It took 12+ hours and…

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Cap-lock is ON Maybe it's just us IT guys, but I keep a mental count of how many times I can type in my password before I make a typo. My record is 23 times. And that was before we had the little peep thing that lets you see what you've typed. It's a strange habit, I know, but there's a certain…

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Some growth here and there I've had no luck detecting lately and my 3D printing project is gonna take more days to have anything to show so I'm doing more gardening during the week. I'm starting to see a few blooms on the smaller of our Ceanothus and even had some flower open on the tiny…

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MicroFlora? A gentle, diffused sunlight filters through the morning mist here in Salisbury, the air still carrying a hint of the night's chill. Typical for this time of year, a quiet, almost hesitant warmth is beginning to settle over the landscape. So I was checking on this tiny terrarium I put…

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possible papaya and a couple other things... I started this entry late Saturday night and then left it hanging on the screen pending some plant identification. And then well, busy week started after busy weekend. So my apologies. I did get some gardening in, and bought some new plants. So many of…

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New pots and a bit of pottering I got some new pots from Temu that should help with the water of my tomato plants and lean a bit into the hydroponics as well. It took over a month for them to arrive but at least the tomato plants had more time to grow from sprouts to 4-6 inches high. Plus I just…

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Find 75: William III shilling The thrill of the find, the tell-tale signal beneath the soil – every metal detectorist knows it. Recently, less than a mile from the historic grounds of Clarendon Palace outside Salisbury, my efforts yielded a tangible link to England's past: a silver shilling…

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Set it and forget it Hydroponics Tim asked about my hydroponic tomato setup from last year, so here's the lowdown. It's basically the Kratky method. You'll find more info than you ever wanted to know about it HERE.  In its most basic form there's only a couple of things you need to pay attention…

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Isle of Wight (dragons) I had such a weird dream last night. I dreamed that I was at a coastal hotel overlooking the Solent, I could see a city, which I assumed to be Cowes, on the other side. Suddenly, I noticed one, two, a dozen, hundreds of black drones and a few unmarked helicopters flying…

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Out in the Streets -- I don't remember why I sent myself this link but I'm pretty sure I meant to share it with you.

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Test pattern Good Morning London! Jet lag still has a grip on me so I woke crazy early. I had the thought that just this once I’d catch that very first earliest train just to see what it’s like…but then sanity set in and instead I took time to drink a hot cup of coffee and eat a homemade brekkie…

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Perlite, Perhaps? Propagating houseplants in perlite offers a simple, effective way to cultivate new growth, mirroring Salisbury's quiet springtime renewal

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A tiny red totoro has taken up residence in my terrarium

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I use an app called EmilySaiditbetter and it’s pretty cool. I share the quotes with my wife from the train every morning.

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I wrote this blog entry on July 1st, 2016: The seat back in front of me has a crack in it right at forehead level. There's tiny lines and dendrites like a brain cell. What if someone thought something so hard that it became embedded in the vinyl? 2708 days later, the crack is still there…

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