Time of Use Power
We were notified that we are joining the throngs of Ontario Hydro One Time of Use power users next month. It has been a long time coming but they appear…
Bath Garden Club
We were able to pop into our very first meeting of the Bath Garden Club on Monday Feb 21st (2011) as it was a holiday for us. Having a 2pm…
Seed Inventory
We collect and grow out heritage/heirloom seeds. We believe that commercial big retail fruits and veg are optimized/chosen for transport and “prettiness” and not for taste, freshness or health. So…
allsky image processing changes
We’ve noticed for the last few months that the images coming out of the allsky camera were dimmer and lower contrast than previous images. So after a couple of hours…
CO Detector failure
Our Kidde Carbon Monoxide Detector was making noises every 30 seconds last night when we got home. Checked the three AA batteries and they were a little low but not…
Feb L&A Hort
The February meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society was last night, Wednesday Feb 16th. Too bad it conflicted with the new season of Survivor and the finale of…
seti@home issues
The seti@home project has been quite a lot the last few weeks and as a result we went out and added in a 2nd project to most of the computers…
Kingston city greenhouse open house
2011 Get a breath of Spring air at Greenhouse Open House Kingstonians anxious for spring can get a taste of it at the City’s greenhouse which will open on a…
catching up
It’s been busy the last couple of weeks: * Snow and more snow. The Great Groundhog Day Blizzard hit on Feb 2nd and left us with a pile. * WordPress…