Bike from Red Raven on Galloping Goose trail with Huntington Mine Lake in the background.
Family selfie on a stop while mountain biking the Galloping Goose trail in Cuyuna!
Family selfie at the Adam Turman mural outside of Victual in Crosby. We are visiting the Cuyuna Lakes area this weekend!
Summer Challenge: Create a Playdate Experience
This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids to do over the summer.
This is a very open ended challenge to use the Playdate Pulp web-based game editor to create some kind of experience for the Playdate. This could be a game, something educational, or just silly. There is no complexity requirement but it should have some goal that it is designed for.
We saw The New Standards play tonight outside on the rooftop of the Hewing tonight. They did a good performance as always but while the venue had promise the execution was difficult. There seemed to be more people there than the space could really handle or the bar could serve.
I made it out to the pontoon to get the cover back up, replace a cover pole, and get the ponding water off the cover. Mission successful. There is still a bit over a foot of water above the dock. The boat still is floating and not on the Sea Legs yet.
I picked up four of these Weatherproof Electrical Connection Boxes to keep connectors safe outside at the lake, power and USB. Seems like a great solution.
Mazie took this fun handheld time-lapse of me making a round of smash burgers tonight. 🍔
When you want to watch France 🇫🇷 and Portugal 🇵🇹 in the Euros 2024 quarterfinals but you also want to be in the pool! ⚽️💦
The Channel Inn had an amazing fireworks show tonight! We drove over and watched through the glass roof in the Model Y. Then we drove to a home that had an amazing show as well. 🎆🇺🇸🤩
Just realized that the Ubiquiti U6 Long-Range access points I’m using at the cabin need PoE+ (30W) and I’ve been using PoE-af (15W) injectors. May explain some of the odd performance I’ve been seeing. Two U-PoE-at adapters ordered!
Knee high by the 4th of July? ✅
Transferred the pork butts to the Big Green Egg after 21 hours on the Sous Vides. Time for smoke and developing bark.
Happy Birthday America! 🇺🇸 Hope everyone has a great 4th of July! 🎆
“Remember to leave beer and guns out or Kid Rock won’t bring you fireworks tonight.” — Dylan
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Break in the rain and everyone jumping in the pool! 💦
Having Hulk Hogan’s new Real American Beer — can there be a better beer for 4th of July! 🍻
My cousin @jellisatc posted his first new column — Making Hay — since I helped him get his website up and running. He’s also using micro.blog newsletter capabilities so you can subscribe and get them twice a month. Recommended!
Fiber Installed at Cabin
I met with Bevcomm on July 1 2023 to give them the go ahead to install fiber at our cabin. They thought it would take about a year and today — one year and two days later — it was installed and activated! Bevcomm sent two technicians out and everything went very smooth.
I had made several upgrades to the network infrastructure in preparation. I don’t have ethernet here and was using ethernet-over-power adapters before with Eero infrastructure.
I knew I wanted to switch everything to UniFi. I use UniFi at home and am very pleased with it. I decided to use the existing coax wiring for the backbone using MoCa adapters. Each of the four MoCa adapter then has a little 4-port switch. I’ve also got 2 WiFi 6 LR access points and a UniFi U6 Mesh access point that is installed outside. I’ve now got direct line-of-site for my external network devices. External WiFi signal is way better!
Today the last part clicked in with the fiber getting turned on. I provisioned 500 Mbps service. I didn’t think full gigabit made sense. Speeds look great and response times are very snappy.
