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Solar Panels in My Garden - Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden

Solar Panels in My Garden
Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden #microgen

I started the morning with the objective of putting the plants we brought from our old house into our new yard. But I quickly realized all the tools I needed were sprinkled throughout my disorganized garage. So I spent 3 hours ripping out old cabinets left by the previous owners to make some space and then hunting through our piles of stuff to find the garden tools. Got most of it organized, so at least I can actually put my hands on stuff. A small step forward.
#Gardening #FengShui

Just relaying a story I told elsewhere.
When I was young, maybe around 5, there was a cat in our neighbourhood who regulary came into our garden. His name was Monty. He was a really nice cat and my brother, sister and I really liked him.
At some point our parents bought us a cat and we disgreed on what our cat should be called but in the end we agreed to just copy the other cat's name because we liked that one so much.

My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.

My Garden of a Thousand Bees
New PBS documentary following wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he films more than 60 species of bees in his urban garden in Bristol, England, during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown.

Solar Panels in My Garden - Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden

Solar Panels in My Garden
Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden #microgen

I was late to pick my daughter up from camp because #NYCParks closed a huge portion of Corona-Meadows Flushing Park. Apparently for some kind of music festival. There was, of course, no bike detour. The area has highways running through it, and the bridges over the highways are cordoned off. How do you get to

I've spent the day in my Slackware bubble; on this computer the latest hyprland with nwg-shell.
Of course all runs well; had some great hints and my dots were still available on my Codeberg.
Only one real challenge: installing all of the Rust stack (and that involves a ton of dependencies).
Not bcs I'm a dev, but because I want eza and have a go at wezterm 😆 !
As you know, you'll have to install those separately and by yourself on Slackware. Keeps our garden nicely walled 😜

Here is my imagining of a perfect English Gentleman Farmer's hot day cocktail: a crisp and cool Garden Society Gin and Tonic from WanderFolk Spirits, garnished with cucumber picked fresh from the garden. Yum! 🌱What's your go-to summer cocktail? #guthrie #oklahoma

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

This garden by the Vet Research Tower is my favorite anywhere -- the only thing wrong with this prairie garden is that I wish it was bigger...
#photo #photography #flowers

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

Recently repairing a garden chair I made some years ago, I replaced cross head screws with traditional slot headed ones. Much easier to remove.
I'm also questioning use of battery powered tools - new hedge trimmer is more powerful, cheaper and no battery to replace when it loses capacity over time.
I like hand tools anyway. My favourite is a turning saw bought in an antique shop. I frequently use it. Stronger than a coping saw and easier to control than a jigsaw.

All the bird types who come and feed in my small bird sanctuary (aka garden) have fledglings right now. Many of them bring the little ones along to feed. This is a great opportunity for me to learn what the various birds look like at different ages.
I can't do much about the mess the human world is in; seeing to it that there is a safe space for these young birds to splash in a bird bath and eat good, tasty food is a better activity than just screaming into the void.

These little cuties eat any small, unprotected plant in my yard down to the ground. I've tried explaining that if they don't eat ALL of my garden seedlings, there's more for everyone later. But so far it hasn't worked.

A wonderful brunch at the Pine Grove Restaurant. This really is a gem not to miss. My wife had the garden omelette which was delicious and perfect, I had the “Big Breakfast” with chipped beef sausage gravy and biscuits, country sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs and home fries. So good! Five stars!

Solar Panels in My Garden - Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden

Solar Panels in My Garden
Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden #microgen

I have a herring gull with a broken leg sheltering in my rear garden. It's found a soft place in the shade to rest and has the bad leg stretched out behind it (perhaps like a kind of natural splint?). I gave it a good feed and there's water, so I hope it will recover.

Stopped off in town, Broadmarsh area. Sat on a rock for a bit and read my book.
I don't often go into town these days, but I was reminded of this nice little garden area when the May Day march met round the corner the other week, and I thought I would have a rest there today before coming home.
Lovely to see the flowers growing there now. I really like that the city council went in that direction for that bit of the land.
#Nottingham #BloomScrolling

#SilentSunday #bloomScrolling

On this cold midwinter night, fire in the fireplace, cup of red wine, good dinner of locally caught mullet with salad from my garden. Life is good even though the world is going to shit. I feel for people in so many places who don't have this warmth, safety, full belly, tonight.

It's a running gag that my wife is like Columbo's wife on 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑜 [1] because she's always getting mentioned on my socials but she never shows up.. here she is, in the garden she maintains in front of the barn
#photo #photography

We only have a small garden, and we mostly grow flowers in containers. Since the end of last week's warm weather the lobelia has been going absolutely great guns, and I popped outside at lunchtime to find five bees happily lapping pollen & nectar from this single container alone.
Elsewhere in the garden there were another 6 or 7 bees and two small white butterflies. This has made my day!
#BloomScrolling #bees

I generally only do anything with those two garden beds once every 2 to 3 years. I have way too many garden beds on my property.
That turned out pretty good, though.

Well, I've passed a milestone - my garden work shoes are now, I believe, more Shoe Goo than original parts.

@… Besides that: I'm looking into moving my thesis project site to a digital garden Jekyll theme: https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/

my flowers bring all the bugs to the yard
#photography #bloomScrolling #insects #bugs

Here are some more pictures I took today on my OnePlus 6T running #postmarketOS :)
Yes, these were taken in 2025.
#Linux #MobileLinux

It's only a week away until the moving truck arrives and puts an end to our 16 years in Caledon. Today, I'm taking some time to squeeze in 9 holes of golf with my brother, who has a cottage close to our new home. My car is packed with 11 different plants that we split from our current garden, over 70 individual plants for the new house. Two planters will have to wait for the next trip.
#Moving #Gardening

My haul of ginger today, from a 40 cm (16 inch) pot on my front porch. I have another couple of plants growing in the garden, and from them I just dig up a bit when I want it. This potted one gets harvested all at once, to make pickled ginger (for rice paper rolls and sushi) and a shoot replanted in new compost each year. Such a lot, for so little space or effort. #retrosuburbia

Dango-on-a-pointy-stick!!!!
My most-oft-used garden tool is a 6" wide spade.
The handle broke; it broke sincerely and completely. Grrrrrr.
No store around here even carries those any more, not even the place I bought it from a year ago.
Well, at least Amazon provides.

Good Morning #Canada
July 24th, 1534, the original Cross of Gaspé was erected overlooking the bay of Gaspé, by the crew of Jacques Cartier on his first trip exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Planting the cross symbolized the ownership of the territory on behalf of the King of France. Today, a granite Cross of Gaspé, erected in 1934, has replaced the original. Amazing that the installation of a religious artifact defined clear ownership of a continent you didn't know existed just days prior.
I have a small Easter Island statue in my garden that I'm going to install in the middle of my neighbour's yard. Wish me luck.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Colonization
https://youtu.be/aXZkwrI3V10?si=8abMJ6iEnSgGLUCr

We took a break from unpacking and organizing and did tour of local greenhouses and garden centres. We came across this humble establishment in Bradford that takes up 10 acres of growing and retail space. My wife said she has found her new favourite place. The Bad News - it's too close, only 15 minutes by car. The Good News - we have a tiny yard, so we might not go broke.
#Gardening #Zone5a

"Nice fireworks"
#resist #tyranny #fireworks #July4th