I started my self-hosting journey in 2001 when I bought my first desktop. Before then I used the family computers (a 286 and 486 that we found in a dumpster). I went to university without my own computer and used the school computers for anything that needed it. It wasn't until that summer that I bought my own. Fast...

Sometimes it takes some experimentation to get the cookies just right. Back in the spring of 2020 I came across a old recipe bookie that my Primary teacher put together for everyone. We brought in our favourite recipes in from home and she wrote them all out and made a recipe book for everyone. My contribution was...

Winter finally seems to be on the wane, and this is the time that the USA decides to start yet another war in West Asia, this time supporting Israel. Not what I was hoping to wake up to, but not something I was surprised to see after the UK pulled their diplomats out of Tehran yesterday. At that point this not...

On the weekend we took a short wander at Point Pleasant Park. The weather was nice and we needed to get out of the house. It ended up being short because the walking trail was mostly ice, but as long as we can get close enough to the water to throw rocks the kids are happy. There were lots of ducks, gulls and...

Hope for Wildlife is a wildlife rehabilitation and education organization located in Seaforth, Nova Scotia. They have a few pens and trails so we met up with some cousins to wander around this afternoon. I learned today that they also have a reality TV show, I found some of them on Youtube here If you want to visit...

I started the weekend making a couple of recipes from Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens including a Cinnamon Loaf and Rolled Oats Bread. This is the second Brown Bread that I attempted. I'm not happy with my first try with the rolled oats bread, and there are a couple of things that could be the reason. It was a...

I'm a little surprised that I haven't already posted this recipe in my recipe format, so this post is to remedy this. Its a recipe from the Longbourn Farm blog that we make most weeks. Although I do use less flour because 8 C makes loaves that are a touch too big, so I also use a little less water too. Basic White...

This recipe is unmodified from my revision of the Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens book. I never really know if I should call it a recipe or cookbook, because it is that, but it is more too. I highly recommend grabbing a copy for your kitchen bookshelf, it has a lot of gems. This makes one loaf. Cinnamon Loaf 1/4 C...

I really want to run Windows 11 on my laptop, and the last couple of times that I have tried it I got stuck on the bridge connection. This is the way that I have finally gotten it working. What I need I need to install windows 11 on my Linux Mint laptop and be able to do the following: Install and run ETAP Install...

This weekend I knew we needed bread, but I couldn't get myself to the store. I just didn't want to, so I made it homemade instead. We had milk, and while I enjoy and the kids love the everyday bread I wanted something that was a little softer. So I grabbed the church cookbook and moulded 3 recipes into a 4c dough...

Today was the day that the leaves all fell off the trees.

The weather was nice so we picked a close trail that we haven't been to before, and chose The Old Coach Road in Bedford.