Fireball 2012Oct05 05:26:28 UT
6mb .avi video Another fireball was recorded at the Starlight Cascade Observatory on the morning of Friday October 5th, 2012. In Universal Time (UT) the event started at 05:26:28 and…
Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop
Sisters of Providence Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop Saturday Oct. 20, 2012 2-3:30 pm – Sitting with seeds contemplative workshop At this time of year and through the winter, seed savers…
GrassRootsGrowers Meeting 2012 Oct 16
From the Tamworth (Ontario) Grass Roots Growers: THE LAWN DILEMMA Tamworth Library Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7 p.m. Award-winning gardener Paul Fritz will share his innovative ideas on alternatives to…
Garlic bed prep
Looking back at yesterday’s blog post about more garden prep, I thought the work described would not be that hard. hmmmph! Memory fails as do muscles. An hour of hard…
More garden prep
Most gardeners do not have to worry about the fall… except if you happen to grow 45+ types of garlic and like to plant in the fall. So yesterday we…
Doctor Who (2005)
We finished watching the first season of Doctor Who (2005) last night, episode 13 with the departing Christopher Eccleston making way for David Tennant. After being brought up on Tom…
apollo 18 – blech
Apollo 18 was released some time ago with much fanfare and some really good editing on the trailer. Ie we thought we really really wanted, needed to see it. Well,…
Another meteor!
Months of nothing and boom.. two big ones within days of each others. The first was 2012 Sept 22 00:29:46 UT (Sept 21 20:29:46 EDT) Fireball reported across SE Ontario…
Fedora can be a pain
We tried to do an upgrade on the Fedora 16 linux installation we have here yesterday and it failed completely. The linux Fedora distribution seems to be getting more tempermental…
Welcome to fall
Welcome to the first day of fall (Saturday September 22, 2012)…and 29mm of rain. It finally did stop which let us start the massive todo list. – garbage dump run…
2012 to do
I came across a blog today and picked up some interesting ideas … such as this one… what chores/tasks/fun things do I want to accomplish by the end of this…
Last Full Day of Summer
Friday September 21st, 2012 is the last full day of summer in the northern hemisphere. A good day to reflect on how good the summer was, how short the summer…
Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society meeting
The first of the fall season meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society was Wednesday evening September 19th, 2012. We met at 7pm at the Napanee Firehall Training Room…
Newer CHDK firmware does 1024 seconds!
We’ve talked a lot about the CHDK software available for Canon Powershot series cameras. We took the old Canon A540 with the new software to Fall’N’Stars and did three sets…