pollinators
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…
In support of butterflies
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…
A little early this year – hornworm
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…
observatory jack job
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…
American Yellow finch
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.
2014 Garlic Field Day
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…
and another CFL season is nigh
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…
Kingston Astronomy Club meeting
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…
leaf identification
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…
L&A Hort Club met last night
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…
winter heating
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 Drive is done
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…
new roof wheels
A four hour job on Saturday morning led to the removal of the observatory roll off roof wheels (they were low profile 1″ rollers that did not roll well) and…
The Veg is In
The last of the vegetables have been planted. By my count (which is almost certainly off), 55 heirloom tomato plants of 12 types were planted in the ground this past…