Perseid runup 2016
It has been surprisingly clear in the runup to the 2016 Perseid meteor shower. Over the last few days we have had captured on our allsky2 system: Tue 20160802: 14…
The Garlic of August
approximately 500 bulbs of 75 types of garlic were harvested by 2016 July 21. They were washed, sometimes a layer was peeled off, and they were hung up to dry…
The Tomatos of August
Tomatos are having a very tough time this summer in SouthEastern Ontario. Looks like we have had 13mm of rain in the last 30 days. These are two plants of…
The Peppers of August
If we thought the tomatos were not doing so well, the peppers are even worse. We lost a lot of them after transplant and had to purchase some grown plants…
Garlic Harvest complete
It took 3 sessions (days) of 2 hours each to dig up, clean up, rinse off, identify, hang up and tag approx 75 types of garlic with about 500 plants…
Mars 20160718
Was imaging the moon last night just after sunset and managed to start two and only two runs of Mars when the bus stopped and all the mosquitos got out…
Potato patch
This is our small potato patch, only 10 types with five or six plants of each type. In contrast to the earlier post about Colorado potato bugs on June 29th,…
Garlic Harvest 2016
We started the garlic harvest of 2016 on Sunday July 17th. At least three of the bottom leaves have dried out and the weather is a little unstable and wet…
Colorado potato beetle season!
It is that time of year already! Colorado Potato beetle egg time. We discovered at least 4 nests of these on potato plants growing unexpectedly in our garlic and tomato…
Quinte Airshow 2016
Good news, bad news, the Quinte Airshow has returned after a 10 year absence. I’ll start by saying, all-in-all, it was good news. The airshow itself was great and the…
New Adirondack Chairs
We had a 10+ year old swingset here on this spot for the last few years. The top had disintegrated and broke, the seat was bad and we finally got…
Eastern Ontario Garlic Field Day 2016
We went on a road trip Sunday 2016 June 26th, to the Eastern Ontario Garlic Field Day, hosted by and at Beaver Pond Estates near Maberly. It was a good…
Mars 2016 June 23
We went out Thursday evening 2016 June 23rd after sunset.. ie 21:00EDT! wow! Found Mars pretty quickly and ran 10 imaging sessions from 01:11 UT to 01:28UT.. only 17 minutes!…
Linux Fedora 24 upgrades
Linux Fedora 24 came out today, after many weeks of delays. This is the operating system of choice for servers. The system was running an uptodate Linux Fedora 23 prior…