And more grass
These are before and after pictures of our vegetable bed #5. The soil we got last year to build this was particularly bad and full of weed and grass seed.…
Grass gets into everything
More and more the grass is infiltrating everywhere. So this year we started to expand all of the mulch rings around the trees, eliminating more grass that will not need…
More raised beds
These are raised Veg Beds #7 and #8, each approx 8’x3′ or 24ft^2. Two of the three new beds we put up this year due to too many more types…
Parking Issues
2011 Sometime you get the parking space and sometimes the parking space gets you. This is in “downtown” Yarker on Sunday afternoon where this vehicle ended up stuck on the…
Do you know what kind of tree this is?
Here are closeups of the flowers, leaves and trunk From the five petal white flower a tentative ID is Gray Dogwood. We’ll need some better images of the leaf though.
Wet & cold spring
And we still haven’t planted most of the garden yet. It has been wet, cold and cloudy. It looks like we may be 4 weeks later than last year already.…
radiojove skypipe issues
So, we continued to get strange error messages from the radiojove skypipe installation and thought that it was network file related. We switched skypipe over to save data locally to…
radio skypipe problems
The new radiojove radio telescope has been up and running for a few days now. Data is coming in but there is a troubling side effect. The Radio Skypipe II…
Radio Jove operational
Our Radio Jove Radio telescope is up and operational. We assembled the final bits of the system on Friday April 29th, just after the Royal Wedding. It involved accurately measuring…