07-26-2026 — My Dear Peppers

Howdy all. Nice day to start again. Temperatures in the upper 60s, may be headed to upper 70s. Possibly we will see thunder showers later this afternoon. It is morning (10 am) right now, and cloudy.

I started my de-Spectrum-ing when I got up. I disassembled the TV boxes in my bedroom, and in Kitty’s bedroom, and gathered up all of the cables and power cords, and remotes, into trash bags. I can’t wait until I can toss them on the counter at the Spectrum store and say “cancel it all, immediately”. But Kinetic doesn’t set up until Thursday (today is Sunday). And even then, I will need a few days to get the new system up and running.

I had to move some furniture and reach behind stuff to get to the cables and such, and that triggered my back to hurt again. Duh. I won’t learn.

Yesterday, when housekeeping was here, I had her help me move the TV stand, in the Family Room, out from the corner. That allowed us to get the Ubiquity Cloud gateway hooked up to the T-Mobile gateway. I can now plug stuff into the Ubiquity and have it control which ISP to use — well, I will when Kinetic is back there too. The Ubiquity software control panel is very complicated. And it would really like me to be hardwired into it from a computer (ethernet). But it is set up for the present.

I hooked up a Google WiFi router to it just to make certain it was running fine. It seems to be.

I also watered the garden beds yesterday morning. The new pepper plants need rain to get the roots growing into the soil of the beds. Oh, and of course, this happened overnight.

Answer to question “Do deer like young pepper plants?” Is a solid yes. 

Look at plant in lower left corner.  It was same as the others yesterday.

I did manage to pick some tomatoes while watering. Also removed weeds wherever I could.

Some lovely yellow tomatoes in this harvest.

On the non-edible side, the wild flowers that I tried to grow in a couple of the beds back by the fence, are really popping.

And some of the sunflowers actually survived all of the critter munching earlier this season. Maybe some of the taller ones will have bigger flowers. But it is nice to see even the smaller sunflowers.

All in all, I am doing my best to Enjoy Life