Johnnys Seeds Catalog    It arrived yesterday. https://www.johnnyseeds.com. There are so many new ideas in there. I have to get peas in the greenhouse soon. My watering systems need an update. Oh, that back garden plan has not started.

App Fatigue www.fastcompany.com/91268694/… This begs the question of why I need three apps to interact with Micro.Blog.

Over the years, I have been working to find little corners of the world to visit and enjoy. We have traveled to that end, and I have been able to find some digital corners to live in. I can only emotionally afford to invest energy in a few areas. I cannot watch or read mainstream news. I can no longer tolerate the massive systems to see the photos of my grandkids, etc.

Here is to hoping that the plants starting up in my greenhouse survive the below zero weather over the next couple of days.

The back garden has to be reworked as the tree roots were taking all the water from the garden plants:

1/17/25,… I remembered that I had stopped blogging. The new micro.one system was the trigger, and I thought, what the heck? I did miss doing this. Twelve hours later, I reactivated my account, and poof @manton had saved my old blog. Thank you very much. It’s time to catch up.

I have been an Amateur Radio operator for a relatively long time. I have not been active, but the call of HF and Digital modes has re-ignited my interest.

I have been obsessed with music playback systems since the 1960s. I have 8-track tapes, Akai 4-track reel-to-reel tapes, and Koss Pro–4aa headphones! It was not until 1985 that I started to understand clean-sounding systems: Thiel CS 3.5 speakers, Bryston 3B power amp, and APT Holman preamp. The system was set up in the basement because it was too big and “ugly” to be part of family life. I started learning about room reflections from the paneling on the walls and the low ceiling.

Last time, I discussed some of the issues related to building systems in your home. Today, I want to discuss creating a shared listening experience. Some audiophile systems have accessibility problems. Either the system is not accessible to others, or nobody else can run it. I regularly find issues like these: • The system is located away from family life. • It has a very complex setup and operation • The equipment is too fragile to let “just anyone” use it • The “owner” does not let anyone touch the system.

Building a new music system in our homes today presents both technical and personal challenges. We need to make sure that a few things are ready before we start. The first challenge is the local network in the home and the feed from the Internet. While audio is not as intense as say video streaming they both require a stable, consistent internal network. If the system streams files from the Internet, then some additional requirements have to be met.

Spring update to the winter garden. Most of the plants made it through the winter and we are picking lettuce and spinach!

First time trying a winter garden. I am being very optimistic. The grandkids and I mixed up some more Mel’s Mix (square-foot gardening). We planted some seeds. They are growing.

New Project at ham-comm.com

Today is a good day: Your Universal App Quick Start Program enrollment application is approved. Now I am scared. I have to code for REAL! Now I am excited. I get to code for REAL on something NEW! And that is about all I think I am allowed to say.

This one must be an overachiever:

I have just completed a three year project! The story will appear on Audiophilestyle.com soon. Here is picture of the finished project and a link to the summary video. Victrola

I do not know if she likes my music or just wants to read my photography magazine? How do you read a cats mind?

Got my 5k walk in before Turkey. Gray day, but nice!

The Last Pepper

Candy striped Leaf bug : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grap…

I am using my iPad Pro with the Logitech MX Vertical Mouse. Wow!

Started playing with (and paying for) Universe. It is a website builder for IOS devices. They have free sites and paid for sites. I built KE9A.COM and bobfairbairn.onuniverse.com Very interesting. Some glitches but nice

In the Hummingbird them! Last year a Hummingbird nested in our yard twice. (normal for them to have two broods). Well she is back! Yes we are pretty sure because there is a spot of dark feathers on one side of her neck!

I am staying at a friends cottage and got a couple of nice images of a male Ruby Throated Humming bird:

No More Betas! I jumped the gun and ran full ahead with the new Apple Betas. I am almost rolled back now. Not like last year! These are not stable.