Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 – 20:00 to 22:00 ET Special Event Speaker: Prof Bob Benjamin (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) A Three-Dimensional View of the Milky Way Location: Ellis Hall Auditorium, Queen’s…
The StarlightCascade Observatory has a carpet on plywood on styrofoam insulation floor. Because it is fairly small, telescopes need to be stored away when not in use, to get out…
Pollinating insects have been in the news a lot lately, which is both good and bad news. Good news for the awareness, bad news for the reasons why, that of…
You get the idea that we might have cats? You are correct! Where do they all learn about this behaviour with humans? Some two week course they take online while…
This is an image of our first butterfly and pollinator garden, located on the north side of the house. It contains a lot of perennial plants that are known to…
This tomato hornworm made an appearance in our swimming pool yesterday. Come to think of it, we had an early worm appear last year as well. From the evidence (hexagonal…
Note the bubble on the right hand side… not too level is it? This is the northern wall of our roll off roof observatory. It was level when we built…
A pair of american yellow finch? birds dropped by the sunflower seed feeder the other day. Time to start taking a catalog of images of the visiting birds.
A visit to the Beaver Ponds Estate 2014 Garlic Field Day. This was a Sunday 4 or 5 hour meeting of Garlic Growers to learn and share information about the…
The first regular season game in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Saskatchewan Roughriders will be against the Hamilton Tiger Cats, in Regina at 7pm EDT. This is the…
The RASC-Kingston Centre met last night (Thursday June 12th) from 19:00-21:15 in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University in Kingston. Introduction were made, announcements and discussion about the national…
We are having troubles identifying a plant in our flower beds. It is widespread this year but we do not recognize it as a flower that we have planted in…
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 June 11th at the Napannee Fire Hall community/training room. The topic of the night was food… a…
This is what we used for heating in the winter over 2013/2014. It is a dump truck load of firewood, approximately 2 cords. It took about 5-6 person hours to…
The system was shut down, the new WD Green 3TB drive (about $130 from amazon.ca) was installed and the system restarted. Linux fdisk does not partition greater than 2TB so…