summer growing days revisited
We looked at the weather station data again and decided to go with the heavy frost (-3c) instead of the light frost (-1C) definition for a few reasons. 1) In…
seti@home update
An update on our seti@home progress. Yay! After first joining the effort on April 12, 1999, 1:58 pm Over 13 years now dedicated to signal processing radio telescope data. We…
Napanee’s Garden Club meets tonight
Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society meeting The next meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society is Wednesday evening November 21st, 2012. We meet at 7pm at the Napanee Firehall…
Dr. Who 2012 Christmas special
We’ve become big Doctor Who fans and are happy to share this link with you for the 2012 Christmas Special trailers watch?v=L3KVpvEUTns&feature=player_embedded and look! There is a 2nd trailer as…
Tamworth Grass Roots Growers meeting tonight
Tamworth is 22km north of Camden East on County Road #4, about 20-25 minutes north. http://te-grassrootsgrowers.weebly.com/events.html Weighing the Costs Building a Case for a Local Food Economy Tuesday November 20,…
apache log analysis
Once in awhile one wonders just how many search engines are out there. I wrote up a linux bash script found on the net to analyze the apache web server…
Leonids 0 Clouds 1
This morning was the peak of the Leonid Meteor Shower… only the clouds won. We were using the clear sky clock last night to see when it would clear and…
site updates
Some of the automated data gathering routines and systems have failed in the times since the last time change from daylight savings to standard time. Let me tell you how…
Aurora 2012 Nov 13/14
Aurora 2012 Nov 13/14 There was another aurora event overnight that was not too bad. Kim went out and got a few images on the Canon camera but those have…
Summer growing season summary
Data mining our weather station data shows the number of growing days in each summer here at the StarlightCascade Gardens over the years. We use the last day of -1…
Napanee Food Bank Garden 2012 Summary
Napanee Food Bank Garden 2012 Summary We kept a logbook of harvest this year and today I went through and transcribed it into a 2012foodbankgardensummary spreadsheet(11kb .pdf). Basically the 2012…
root veg come out
It’s the start of a stretch of cold overnights, so the root vegetables came out of the garden beds yesterday (Sunday November 4th,2012). Carrots, beets, parsnip and one more… whose…