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four Phoebe fledglings
Sunday, June 19 2016
I had an uneventful walk with the dogs in the forest this morning. Unusually, they stayed fairly close to me the whole time, occasionally running off to tree squirrels or chipmunks. Some idiot was down at the bus turnaround blasting away with a semiautomatic weapon, perhaps one bought in the wave of guns purchases that always follow a mass shooting (in this case, the one at a gay nightclub in Orlando).
The fledgling Phoebes atop the light above the garage door (on the west side of the house) left their nest today and distributed themselves in the trees around the house. At last count (yesterday) there had been four of them (all Phoebes and no Cowbirds!), and they'd been so crowded that some of them clung to the outside of the nest. I was a little concerned that perhaps one would carelessly fly down to the ground and get nabbed by a cat, but the one I saw was careful and skittish, clinging to the hot shingles of the roof for a time and then flying up to the solar deck, ultimately to roost on one of the aluminum elements of the big Yagi television antenna up there.
I took advantage of my weekend freetime to do a fair amount of much-needed weeding, watering, and replanting in the garden. Since the kale I plant by broadcasting tends to appear in clumps, I have to move the individual plants around once they come out of the ground. In terms of weeds, I'm dealing with the usual mix of Smartweed, Ragweed, Lamb's Quarters, some weeds I can't identify, and now (because of that one huge plant from last year) Bur Cucumber.
At various times today, I worked to move two sites for a side web-development client to a new host. For some reason I'd picked Dreamhost as the new host, thinking their VPS would be a proper, you know, virtual private server. But it isn't; you do not get root control and cannot install software. It's not really any different than, say, Godaddy's shared hosting. I should've known this from another Dreamhost account I've work with, but I guess I thought that one wasn't a VPS. In any case, the level of access for this job was good enough, but I'll never pick Dreamhost to host anything in the future, not when there are proper VPSes for a third the price. Ultimately my task today was limited by the vast size of the sites being transferred and my pokey internet connection. Lacking shell access on the sites' former locations, I couldn't do an SCP (there might've been a way to do server-to-server transfers, but I didn't feel like expending the mental energy necessary to figure it out).
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