Summer gardens
This is the last of the mini-garden tie constructed raised beds. This is all we have built since the early 2000’s but in the end analysis, they are not deep…
The Tomatos are In!
It was a great last few days to be gardening. We started transplanting Tomatos from the greenhouse stands outside (hardening them off the last few days) into the grounds of…
Time, spring, summer
Time has been slipping away of late. Spring was late, summer will be late and there are still so many things to do. There is still a pile (smaller) of…
L&A Horticultural Society Annual Plant Sale
WHERE: Conservation Park, (south side Napanee River) Napanee Ontario WHEN: Saturday 2019 June 01 from 09:00am-2:00pm Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society is once again holding its annual fundraising plant sale,…
Fedora 30 Linux is out
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fedora-30-linux-rolls-out/ It’s here! And not delayed as much as previous releases. Ran over the procedure to upgrade from fedora 29 linux to 30 on the command line as most of…
Spring has sprung
You know spring has sprung when you plant peas and clean out eavestroughs… well at least the planting peas part. Seeds from 2013, 2015 and 2017? or 2018? were planted…
Another Imac Transplant
Just completed a second Spinning hard drive (Seagate 500GB 7200rpm) to Solid State Drive transplant in an older Imac. This time it was a 21.5″ mid2011 Imac, and it was…
cloudy april
So far this April, we have managed only 9 days out of 25 to do some type of astronomy related activities. This image is of the moon and Jupiter two…
windows 10 bah!
I installed this 120GB SSD in place of the older larger spinning harddrive in my primary laptop workstation some time ago. 120GB is a little tight for space so I…
supersid operational
Our supersid system has been operating at the edge of the property for 3 years now, mainly to get as faraway from any house generated RFI as we can. Too…
Gardening in April
It is only April the 5th, but yesterday we were out surveying the gardens and trying to ignore the piles of snow still here and there. Great plans are being…
Davis Vantage Vue Weather Station repair
Update: 12 days later the new CR123 lithium battery died as well. No data is logged during the night period, and even if it is really cloudy in the day…
365 days of astronomy – april update
In the theme of 365 Days of Astronomy, we made a New Year Resolution to attempt to observe or image every day possible in 2019. These are the results: The…
linux kernel v5
The linux kernel v5 has arrived. This morning during a routine update check, there it was: Linux version 5.0.3-200.fc29.x86_64 According the Linus, there is nothing particular special about moving major…