spare parts & spring cleaning
After 30 odd years of working with computers, one finds oneself with a large collection of “spare parts”. It is amazing that every box I open up seems to have…
Earth Hour March 26th 2011
Earth Hour ran from 20:30 to 21:30 EDT saturday night and we participated by turning off all lights and a lot of other electrical equipment around the house. We spent…
Globe@night
We participated in the Globe at Night starcount on the evening of Saturday March 26th, 2011 It was a clear cold night with some wind and that made it challenging…
Telescope Repair
The main telescope Kim uses for solar observing is a Bausch & Lomb 4000 Schmidt-Cass. She uses it to make daily (if at all possible) observations of sunspots with a…
weekend notes
GLOBE at Night: encourages citizen-scientists worldwide to record the brightness of the night sky. During 2 weeks of moonless evenings, children and adults match the appearance of a constellation (Leo…
The day is clear and windy
This week has been quite a week. Monday- interviews for my class project at the Mission in Partners Food Bank and the Loving Spoonful. Wednesday-We saw our first Robin, and…
RASC Kingston
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre, had its regular monthly meeting Friday March 11th, 2011 at 7:30pm in Stirling Hall Theatre A, 64 Bader Lane on Queen’s…
Mice in the greenhouse
After sealing the floor better to adding a pile of mouse traps into the greenhouse… the mice are still there. We discovered some of the little plants starting to come…
Spring Prep
Spring is coming… this Sunday March 20th, 2011 at 19:21 EDT to be exact. And that has caused us to start thinking about gardens. So far the plans are pretty…
The Red Wing Blackbird is back……
On Monday March 7th while outside enjoying the day, I could hear the call of the Red Wing Black Bird twice though I could not see him. On Wednesday upon…
page hit counter
We added a page hit counter down the right hand column near the bottom (just above the moon phase widget) on March 1st, 2011. The numbers seem to be increasing…
Discovery/ISS Pass#2
The Space Shuttle Discovery and the international Space Station on the evening of Tuesday March 8th on a low 30 degree pass in the west, southwest and south. All images…
Discovery/ISS Pass
While waiting for the Space Shuttle and ISS to pass over, we saw this awesome display of the crescent moon and Jupiter low in the western skies: The Space Shuttle…
Greenhouse Day at Starlight Cascade Gardens
What a busy day….and its only 10:30 am. Took the compost out and has it ever fallen in the new compost heap. Took a look around the yard, some damage…
Kingston Gardening Festival
We stopped in at the Kingston Gardening Festival Friday after work. It was at the same location as last year, the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. Nice to see the first garden…