Allsky Camera trials
We have been attempting to commission an AllSky Camera for some time now. It helps when the clouds go away 🙂 So.. This is an SBIG ST237A camera with a…
Mexico Day 2
Sunday was cloudy and hot and humid. It is amazing how fast we adapted to the climate and how much we loved it. The beach was the first stop and…
Mexico – Day 1
Puerto Vallarta Saturday Day 1. The heat and humidity were fantastic. Something to remind we Canadians what it is like in other, warmer parts of the world… and why in…
Last few jobs of Gardening
It isn’t raining at the moment, so I thought I would move the Bull’s Blood beets (heritage) to garden 4A in the SW corner. I moved 5 beets, so we…
Arrival in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
This was the scene that greeted us on our arrival late Friday afternoon in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. rain. lots of rain. We knew about Hurricane Norbert a few hundred km…
Adventures at SCO goes online
We’ve linked in the wordpress based blog into the Starlight Cascade Observatory & Gardens webpage today. This should give us a better ability to add images in, maintain archives and…
Clean up day in the gardens
Well, on Saturday after the dump run, and the early voting, we came back and cleaned up the gardens, and got them ready for the winter. Kevin cut the grass,…
The Morning After
August 13,2008 Last night and the night before, we were out watching the Perseid meteor shower. Last night at the predicted time of UT for the peak, there was a…
Today’s White Puffy Things
From a previous post from older program (August 14) Well, sitting in my office today, I watched the large white puffy things grow in the North. Eventually it did rain…
Heritage Tomato Day, a taste of History
This post has been taken from an older blog program but I wanted to share the world of Heritage Tomatoes Today, I am making a batch of an old recipe…
The Countdown is on
As the days of the calendar go by and the various events take place, the time is wittling away until our adventure in Mexico. I am excited, nervous, will I…
Ginger says hello
Ginger at age 6 weeks or so back in 1994 July. She was listed as a DSH (Domestic Short Hair) at the Kingston Humane Society… guess what? Not! The fuzziness…
WordPress goes live
After months and months, Kevin has finally figured out how to install and enable WordPress, a web based blogging system. Now for the test.