Assembled a grow light stand where we’ll grow herbs, baby greens, and microgreens. Each set of LED lights is connected to the Internet. I’ll be adding drip irrigation and will create IFTTT applets to control the lights and the irrigation.
Category: Living
Min Hi Line
Pushed my bike alongside railroad tracks, following the route of a proposed cycle path, the Min Hi Line. These tracks once served several flour mills. Just one mill is still operating, producing one million pounds of flour every day.
Wildflowers and Participatory Games
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Wildflowers and Participatory Games
I usually take some snapshots when I explore on my bicycle. A few times in the past couple weeks I’ve found the foreground to be just as interesting as the thing I wanted to photograph. Wildflowers A friend and I were cycling back and forth through an industrial area of St. Paul’s St. Anthony Park.…… Continue reading Wildflowers and Participatory Games
Union Depot
Cycled to St. Paul’s Union Depot. Took the train home.
Blue Foam Blocks
Cycled to the football stadium to see what the X-Games are all about. Just about everybody was inside on this hot day, presumably cheering along skateboarding and other “extreme sports.” The large blue foam construction blocks waited for a different demographic.
Jerk Chicken
Made jerk chicken marinade. For something so simple, there’s a surprising number of ingredients. A coffee grinder we keep for spices and an immersion blender brought all this together in short order. I froze half for another day.
Convenient Ice Cream
It’s a little too convenient living one block from an excellent ice cream store. “Existential Crunch” (dark brown sugar, Jameson whiskey, creme fraiche, praline pecan, and cashew brittle) topped with a small scoop of “Umeshu Chocolate” (dark chocolate and Japanese plum wine).
Drip Irrigation Prototype
Prototyped a drip irrigation system for about fifty plants on our balcony. I’ll create IFTTT applets to control the pump based on reports from the moisture sensor. Next on my shopping list: a 30-gallon tank.
New Americans
Sat in a room with hard-working Somalis in the basement of a Carnegie library. One hundred years ago I would have been sitting with Swedes in this same room.