A blog about automations, food and country life
Living out in the woods has a lot of perks, but no one warned me about how quickly the grass grows and how much love and care it needs to keep trimed. Dad and I were prepared to put in the hours that it would need to take care of the lawn. He even went […]
Now that winter is over and I don’t have an excuse to keep dad and mom locked up in the house any longer and dad was complaining about how he hasn’t got his exercise yet, so I said challenge accepted. Did some google-foo during the day and I found this beautiful trail called Vulture bluff […]
A year into the new normal with Covid-19 and working from home, sadly the body has taken a toll in terms of weight gain. The one good thing was that it wasn’t just me or my wife but it was a group of us that had increased weights, and instead of calling it Covid-19, we […]
So surprise surprise I made another purchase from almighty Amazon, this time I shocked Elma with a big floating island that was meant to hold six people. This I needed to try and see how it works, so of course, we did a dry run at home to make sure that it fills up and […]
It’s been a while since we’ve gone on a vacation and oh how I miss them. But whenever I’ve been on vacation I’ve always thought about the house and think about it safety. Now that we’ve moved away from town and our neighbors are farther away from us, we can’t count on them to let […]
After a few months with the SmartThings installed in the house, I knew that my code would have some issues. I wanted a way to see which lights were left on in the house so this way if I noticed a light being on for an extended period of time and none of my motion […]
One of the perks of living close to the dam was to actually go and see it. Every time they opened up the gates, we got to see a beautiful view of the water spewing out of the gates and just thinking about the amount of power that it might be generating on its way […]
For a very long time, Elma has been getting migraines and we did not know what was causing this. Now if anyone has had a migraine before, depending on the level, it can literally be blinding. Each person’s triggers are different so we, over the years, figured out that one of the major triggers was […]
Dad always had this fascination with sunrises and sunsets. This probabily came from the time when Dad was working. He used to work insane hours and yet he was able to give us the time we always needed. So he took every opportunity to go take his sunset pictures, and there is this one spot […]
Now that the dashboard was all setup, curious me wanted to see if I could add more information on it that I normally look up, like the weather. The big question was around what information do I like to see, was it just temperature or should I include cloud cover and other things as well. […]
