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Sunrise June 7, 2017

We get these crazy sunrises and sunsets around my home that I enjoy capturing each day. For anyone that knows me I am not a morning person. If there is a sunrise and I see it generally it’s because I stayed up to watch it vs got up to watch it. While getting up to watch a pretty sunrise generally not a priority it is fun when it happens. And it does happen from time to time.

Since I want to watch the sun rise what I’ve done is program a Raspberry Pi (3) with a camera to do time lapse sequences three times a day (morning, noon-ish and night) and store the sequence on a Pi-powered NAS device in my network. One day I’ll publish the code for all of that.

Here is what the video looked like the morning of June 7:

As I said to my family … When someone says you can’t “boil the ocean” show them this video. They can take it up with God.

To my family:  30Cw1qxU9wfBGQqbM9UZ/ab2NKwfxZaXyv+MrXDdOEo=

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Garden Bounty

Today I worked a bit with Gloria in the garden where I found this very large and spicy radish. She tells me I’m the only person she knows that likes radishes. She never met my grandmother!

I remember spending summers with my grandmother where part of that day was in various parts of the garden. Sometimes it was strawberries. Sometimes watermelon. Sometime cantaloupe.

Then I’d go about my day with my .22 rifle and a box of shells on my own for the day.

Things have changed since then and I miss those days.

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Hi world!

Hey there.

This is my first blog entry. Hopefully I can keep you updated on my life happenings, interests and the like.

My interests are broad and eclectic so it’s my desire to put some kind of structure around and document what I do.

Here we go…

jw