The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey May 3, 2015

Mostly yard

Yup. This weekend, it was mostly yard work. Yesterday, while Marcia and LindaRose did a yard sale (which doesn't involve selling yards at all, oddly), I took the small gas tiller up the street, and tilled garden beds for a neighbor who just had back surgery and wasn't up to the task, yet. Then I hauled it back down here, and tilled some leaf compost into the one bed that needed more attention than just a shovel could provide. Thereafter, I headed over to Collins Nursery over at Woodcliff Road and Old Annapolis Road. It's a small, family-owned and operated…

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2015

Knife work

New walnut knife handle Another kitchen knife with a broken plastic handle retrieved from the edge of disaster and made real purty with some walnut, and brass screw rivets. Turns out the hardest part of this project was finding where I'd hidden put in a safe place the brass rivets. Once all of the assembly and sanding was done, I soaked the handle in butcher block oil for 15 minutes or so, then wiped off the excess and let it rest for a couple of days. I'm pleased with the outcome. This fillet knife is one of my favorite kitchen…

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2015

Breakage, updated...

It turns out I didn't break my Wordpress install. But my home IP address *had* changed, and I have lots of things locked down to specific IP addresses for access. So I've got two of the three sites puzzled out. But one of them appears to have a broken theme directory. I'll be looking into that now... [A few minutes later, after looking at logfiles] Yup - the twentyeleven theme needed fixing on another site - I refreshed the whole thing, and I'll keep a close eye on it in the next short while. I don't remember mucking about in…

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2015

De-broken WP; Yardwork

Well, sometime last week, one of the changes that I made while working with "responsive" Wordpress themes and site links broke the site. Not the part you see, but the administrative and posting functionality. Sadly, I've been busy enough that I didn't catch this until last night late. So I just fixed it, and I'm taking a few minutes to catch up. * * * Over the weekend, I washed the car, planted flowers front and back, and planted about half of the expected veggies. More on that later, but here's the Box of Pain (aka - peppers): * *…

Brian Bilbrey April 20, 2015

Yard, Themes

This weekend, I was working in the yard. The garden beds, they are ready for plants: That, along with mowing the lawns, twice, and cleaning out all of the front flower beds, took up most of Friday and Saturday. Sunday was rest (or its best friend, immobility). * * * Theme update: The theme, it is currently a bit hideous, but now mobile friendly, due to changes in how Google search results will be ranked. Here's a useful link on the topic from Digital Trends. Expect more work on this over the coming days. * * * Tech. Sgt. Anthony…