Month: April 2015

  • more home automation

    I have this Raspberry Pi that I’ve written briefly about on my other site: http://k0jaa.com/2015/01/raspberry-pi/. It controls the lights in my living room based on a few inputs: the position of the sun the weather if the room is occupied #3 is new and I just added it over the past weekend.  Here’s how it all works,…

  • straw bale planting day

    straw bale planting day

    The fertilizing period is done, and since I was out of town last week, we waited one extra week and got our plants and planted them on Saturday (4/18). Sometime over a week ago, I got a couple soaker hoses and then re-arranged the bales so there wouldn’t be any gaps – it turned into…

  • nature and morels

    Went outside today to fertilize the bales and took a few pictures of some flowers (looked like bluebonnets but I don’t think they are, they appear to be on onion/garlic stalk-type-things) and a snail under a tree.  By the way, I measured the temperature of the straw bales Tuesday and it averaged 87 degrees.  It…