Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
SEEDY SATURDAY and other events http://www.seeds.ca/ev/events.php Seed Sunday in Perth Ontario Canada Sunday March 4th 10:00-3:00 Royal Canadian Legion, 26 Beckwith St. E. Free Admission, gardening related talks and presentations,…
The Canadian Organic Growers Ottawa Chapter hosted the Eco Farm Day 2012 Conference in Cornwall this weekend (Feb 25, 2012). We drove up to Cornwall (normally a 90-100 minute trip,…
Last night, Saturday Feberuary 25th, 2012 we got home late, could not drive into the driveway due to the too high snowplow created ridge and had to stop outside on…
Monday evening 2012 February 20, it was not too cold, it was clear, and we were not too sick from colds and flu. So outside we go to find Venus…
Growing Sweet Potatos presented by the Tamworth/Erinsville Grassroots Growers. Tuesday February 21st, 7:15 pm at the Tamworth Library Brian Burt of Burt’s Greenhouses on propogating sweet potatos from cuttings and…
Saturday was a good day .. not only did we get to see a nice aurora, we also came across this sun column near sunset on 2012 feb 18th. “These…
Unannounced, unpredicted aurora made an appearance on Saturday night, 2012 February 18th. We were on our way home and noticed actuall bright pillars in the north. By the time we…
We watched an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead for the first time last night and were reminded of it by this photo of Dora. She’s a dead ringer for…
The allsky laptop computer had a drive failure Friday around midnight. Since then we’ve been running drive diagnostics and repair attempts until just this morning it is back up and…
L&A HortSoc (code for Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society) met last night (Wednesday February 15th, 2012) at the new location, the Napanee FireHall Training Room. We set up the room…
WORKSHOP Sisters of Providence Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop Sat. Feb. 18, 1-4pm – Seed Saving Basics All are welcome, refreshments included, no fees but donations are welcome. Heirloom Seed Sanctuary…
The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) held an open house/public observing session last night at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory. It’s always a good night when you are on…
For the first time in simply ages! we had time and weather and temperature and no clouds all at the same time.. enough to go outside and take a quick…
So I have a new machine at work to setup. It came with windows 7 on a 1tb drive. We ordered another smaller drive (250gb) to have the operating system…
1. ORGANIC VEGETABLE GROWING WORKSHOP by Janette Haase Explore how one can transform one’s diet to one that is local and seasonal without moving to the country. An efficient and…