Tomato progress
This is part of our heirloom tomato patch. Each plant is staked, velcroed for support and labelled with a laminated nametag. We top up our soil each year and this…
garlic harvest 2018
Sunday 2018 July 22nd, the 2nd day of garlic harvest. Saturday was about 3 hours of harvesting just under 200 plants. Sunday was only about 1 hour for just under…
Bright meteor 20180629 01:24:58 EDT
Reviewing the nightly allsky2 images of bright meteors, we came across this *nice* meteor at 05:24 UTC or 01:24 EDT. Needless to say, we were not awake to see this…
power rankings
Interesting analysis summary. Unsure of the detailed parameters but it looks pretty in the end. The only good news is: being at the bottom means you can only go up…
seti@home
I first joined the distributed computer project SETI@Home back on 1999 April 12th. That means early next year will be 20 years. Wow. Very few things survey for 20 years…
Radiojove vs lightning
This is the affect of the thunderstorm/lightning storm that rolled through our area last night… less than an hour overhead directly, but the Radiojove radio telescope system was picking up…
Supersid anomaly
This is a screen capture of the Supersid v1.2.2 software capturing the Supersid receiver data. We’ve started to notice that overtime the plotted graph shrinks down to almost no signal.…
ISS transit of the Sun 2018June02
On Saturday 2018 June 2nd, we drove over to the Venus transit site south of Newburgh (staying on the public road part and not trespassing) to observe and image the…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden over the years
Google Earth has a nice feature of making accessible historical satellite imagery. Below are the various images from the last few years of the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden. 2011…
Tomatos 2018 May
The tomatos have come out of the greenhouse and have been hardening off outside for the last three days. So far so good, no losses. This is the approximate list,…
SCGO Potatos in
On Friday 2018 May 25th, the SCGO Potato crop was finished planting. In addition to a few earlier types planets in VegBed6, the majority were put in VegBed4. The black…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 2018
Another year and another location for the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden. Yes.. they moved down the field from the previous few years location. The new main bed is approx…
Squirrel!
Squirrels… the bane of bird feeders everywhere. We have two bird feeders on top of a 4×4 post, maybe 6.5′ above ground. Before the last seed dropped into the dish,…
spring is here?
The last two weekends (2018 May 5-6 and 12-13) have been the first warm and best of the year… now if only the black flies would die off (3 weeks…
ssd upgrade
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are one of the best upgrades you can get for your system (server, workstation and laptop). One of the issues they do have however, is that…