Eco Farm Day 2012
The Canadian Organic Growers Ottawa Chapter hosted the Eco Farm Day 2012 Conference in Cornwall this weekend (Feb 25, 2012). We drove up to Cornwall (normally a 90-100 minute trip,…
Conjunction
Last night, Saturday Feberuary 25th, 2012 we got home late, could not drive into the driveway due to the too high snowplow created ridge and had to stop outside on…
Venus and Jupiter
Monday evening 2012 February 20, it was not too cold, it was clear, and we were not too sick from colds and flu. So outside we go to find Venus…
Sweet potatos anyone?
Growing Sweet Potatos presented by the Tamworth/Erinsville Grassroots Growers. Tuesday February 21st, 7:15 pm at the Tamworth Library Brian Burt of Burt’s Greenhouses on propogating sweet potatos from cuttings and…
Sun Column
Saturday was a good day .. not only did we get to see a nice aurora, we also came across this sun column near sunset on 2012 feb 18th. “These…
The Walking Dead
We watched an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead for the first time last night and were reminded of it by this photo of Dora. She’s a dead ringer for…
allsky operational again
The allsky laptop computer had a drive failure Friday around midnight. Since then we’ve been running drive diagnostics and repair attempts until just this morning it is back up and…
L&A HortSoc, the County’s Garden Club!
L&A HortSoc (code for Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society) met last night (Wednesday February 15th, 2012) at the new location, the Napanee FireHall Training Room. We set up the room…
Seed Sanctuary Workshop reminder
WORKSHOP Sisters of Providence Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop Sat. Feb. 18, 1-4pm – Seed Saving Basics All are welcome, refreshments included, no fees but donations are welcome. Heirloom Seed Sanctuary…
KAON Feb 11, 2012
The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) held an open house/public observing session last night at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory. It’s always a good night when you are on…
Thursday observing
For the first time in simply ages! we had time and weather and temperature and no clouds all at the same time.. enough to go outside and take a quick…
$@#$ hard drives!
So I have a new machine at work to setup. It came with windows 7 on a 1tb drive. We ordered another smaller drive (250gb) to have the operating system…
Upcoming Gardening events
1. ORGANIC VEGETABLE GROWING WORKSHOP by Janette Haase Explore how one can transform one’s diet to one that is local and seasonal without moving to the country. An efficient and…