Great Beer Store!
We visited a microbrewery last weekend and it was one of our favourites! We bought some for friends.. but drank them! I think we will have to go back and…
BBQ
Last Wednesday August 21st, 2013 we hosted the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society to a BBQ at our home. 22 people were there, and that was a good turnout. Not…
Prince Edward County Wine Tour 2013
Another wine tour of the Prince Edward County region yesterday (Saturday August 25th, 2013). Our aim is to visit new ones and a couple of old favourites every year. After…
Maitland Gardens of Hope
On Saturday August 10th, 2013 we visited the Maitland Gardens of Hope, just east of Brockville. We joined with the Cornwall Horitcultural Society group tour and had a very good…
Avenstone Gardens
Another garden we have been wanting to visit for year is Avenstone, just between Camden East and Newburgh. We finally made it there a couple of Sundays ago. What I…
Perth Garlic Festival
We normally visit the Verona Garlix Festival, held the last weekend in August, but this year we will not be able to make it. So instead we travelled 90 minutes…
Congrats Terry!
Press Release Join family, friends and colleagues of Terence Dickinson as he receives the County of Lennox & Addington Award for Lifetime Achievement. A special presentation will be held Thursday,…
Perseids 2013 a good year
We had three cloud free moon free nights of Perseid meteor shower observing this year, the best ever! Better yet, the allsky cameras caught a lot of them as well.…
Good Friday
Really! It is a good friday! Tonight at 21:00 Eastern is the first CFL football game in two weeks for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Calgary. After Saskatchewan tromps on Calgary…
New WordPress theme test
Our standby wordpress theme has been “aspire” for quite a while. One of the drawbacks is that it was fixed width. As monitors have gotten wider and wider, there was…
North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve
The North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve sign as seen from Road 506 looking south onto the site. The large parking lot with onsite toilets Awesome! Cleanest toilets around! Then again..…
L&A Dark Sky Viewing Area
The Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area (37km north of Napanee on highway 41) can also be used in the daytime! Many often forget that a lot of astronomers…
They’re back!
Two of these wonderful little beasties (tomato hornworms) were found on the tomato plants on August 5th, 2013. Last year they made an appearance on July 18th, and the year…