One of the things I learned early on in playing with Raspberry Pi’s is the sheer convenience of operating them remotely using a program called “VNC” (for Virtual Network Computing/Computer), server edition on the Pi and a “VNC Viewer” on my laptop computer. My existing “Pis” are in a room in the back of the house we call our “Ham […]
I have a bit of experience, not at a very deep level, with previous iterations of the Raspberry Pi, (2, 3B, 3B+, 0, W), and they have *all* been fun to mess around with. After a couple years, my interest waned, and I kind of moved on to other things, but just the same ordered one of the Raspberry Pi […]
Update: Before you get started with this post – want to warn you that it is long and probably somewhat boring – the areas outlined below have been covered many times elsewhere on the Internet and, I’m sure, in a lot clearer fashion and with tons of pictures/illustrations. You might want to consider having a look at the CHIRP beginner’s […]
Well, finally getting around to updating this old blog again… I just deleted an entry that read: Donating our old 30 foot Fleetwood Wilderness 5th Wheel trailer” As that has already happened. We had started that process when Heidi’s Mom, Katharina, fell after an early morning walk out in front of her home June 3rd, 2019. Fortunately, the lady she […]
Thursday morning we took Missy (our Shepherd), for a nice, long walk. There are a lot of amenities available at Santee Lakes, but walking Missy was the one we were interested in exploiting. They have a huge dog-walk all around most of the North end of Santee Lakes and over the years we have logged some pretty good miles on […]
Well, its about brunch time – we slept surprisingly well and by golly how about hash browns, breakfast sausage, and scrambled eggs cooked outside on the griddle? Heidi took her Mom to make an appointment, then they would be coming over to Santee Lakes so I asked that she text me when they were starting over and I would have […]
While we have had our (new to us) 2015 Travel Trailer since the middle of March, the only way to make darn sure everything works is to actually take it out and *use* it. I was able to get reservations at the Santee Lakes Park, Preserve, and Campground from 1 PM, April 22nd, 2019 – 12 PM, April 26th in […]
Please note: The work for this post actually occurred on April 11th, 2019. That big chunk of cold-rolled steel is pretty heavy, and needs to be protected. Additionally, outdoors you have to deal with wind, something new to my grilling experience. Ordered the new Hood from Amazon and it arrived the very next day. At about 1545, an Amazon delivery […]
I actually started this work on Sunday, April 7th, 2019 and am just now updating the old blog. Upon receiving our new griddle from Amazon, I was very excited, but knew it would be a spell before I would be able to actually start cooking on it. The first thing I had to locate was an old camp cooking table […]
Note: I actually ordered the griddle on the 5th of April, 2019, and am only now catching up and updating the old blog. As a young man in High School, I went to work as a cleanup boy for “B&H Burgers” in Norwalk, CA for the sole purpose of earning enough money to buy/maintain a car. Eventually I was able […]