I’m David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!
I’ve started a bunch of mesclun to keep the Baby Greens Train rolling! The garden is providing green beans, and the torrent of tomatoes has just begun. The Shishito peppers are coming in nicely, and the ground cherries have started dropping off the plants!
The children yearn for the mines
When there is a total solar eclipse, the temperature does drop dramatically. But it might not be detectable on the other side right away for sure.
I’m doing Kabocha and Blue Hubbard~ The hubbard squash was supposed to be a trap crop in the less controlled wildlife garden, but gourd fortune smiled on me and no pests showed up; the vine has gone nuts with 6 viable (large!) fruits on it. It’s my second year trying to grow squash, so 2 outta 3 ain’t bad!
Turkeys!!!
I feel you on the pumpkins, I think I’m only getting two this year. My other two squash varieties are doing great, but there’s just two green pumpkins on the vine…and a bunch more sad ones :(
Those are some lovely blooms! Bee pics plz.
Our tomatoes are finally blushing!
The peppers are all peppering, including this CHAMP Shishito matching the pepper size of the others! You grow on now! (All the other Shishito plants are normal size)
I’ve got a decent number of Kabocha squash growing, exciting!
And a number of Hubbard squash hanging around getting big!
For some reason, most of our sunflowers didn’t come up this year. Only a few did, and they all seem to be facing away from the sun??
I’ve been trying to grow marigolds for Día de los Muertos as we always seem to get to the holiday week and have to scramble to find them. It’s going well!
There’s always room for more 
Looks really cool. I’ve been working on implementing SSO through Authentik for every home lab service that supports it (Like Proxmox!) Do you think you’ll add SSO/SAML? If you do, I recommend not locking it behind the enterprise plan to encourage adoption.
Symfonium can create playlists and push them to Navidrome. It’s got great import/sync options.
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It’s not always as simple as measuring an observable system or simulating the parameters the best you can. Lots of parameters + lots of variables = we have a good idea how it should go, we can get close, but don’t actually know. That’s part of why emergent behavior and chaos theory are so difficult, even in theoretically closed systems.
Well, I’ve maintained my music collection from the olden days, and acquire new music as I discover I like it. I mostly have trash vaporwave tastes so I actually buy most of my music cheaply on bandcamp. My music collection isn’t massive like some peoples, but it’s a decent amount of GB. Mostly mp3, I’m not fancy enough for FLAC.
As for hosting the music, check out Navidrome. It’s a great subsonic compatible service that can run on your OS of choice. I use Symfonium on Android to access the library. It supports playlist syncing, offline caching, etc. etc.
I’ll bet that dog was the highlight of some people’s weeks.
Don’t worry, I’m sure we can come up with a way to explode the sun much sooner than that.
Gotta get with the times, yo.
It’s a busy spring for me! This is year two in a new home, and I’ve started converting larger chunks of boring grass into wildlife gardens and raised beds. So far this year I’ve put together:
New herb garden - Thyme, oregeno, borage, chamomile, sage, you name it! Already Planted!
A small cornfield - currently growing crimson clover and lettuce greens.
A small squashfield more crimson clover! And getting the eventual companion beans going!
A small wildlife garden - sunflowers, more clover, blue hubbard squash, and scarlet runner beans. Food for critters (and also trap crops to keep em off the human food!)
A second raised bed (for square foot gardening) - Currently has little gem lettuce, red fire lettuce, oak fire mustard greens, carrots, turnips and moooooore~
I also got a small plastic greenhouse this year, so now I have TEN MILLION tomato babies. Hooray!
The peppers I’m growing are not quite ready for transplanting yet, but they’ll get there.
food prep is love, food prep is life
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