June 26th- Day One
Day 1 of the 2 week journey to the East Coast of Canada. The vehicle was packed the night before and at 5am Saturday morning we hit the road. After…
Aurora
Good bye Aurora… we miss you, as does Ginger and Pumpkin. Aurora passed away in her sleep on Sunday July 11th, 2010. She was only 10 years old and in…
earthquake
earthquake yesterday. Cool. The earth moved. My chair moved around with me in it. Very cool. At first it felt like the standard heavy truck driving by, more from muffler…
Relay for Life
The Cancer Society Relay for Life was held in Napanee on Friday June 11th and we attended with telescopes and 100 packages of handouts with various astronomical stuff inside (Terry…
10 new trees
We received our order of trees earlier this month and planted them in various locations. They were 10 Balsam firs. They don’t seem to require protection from deer and should…
napanee community garden
We goto the Napanee Community Garden once a week and every time we go back there is something new. This past June 2nd we came across 4 large water storage…
website outage
the server hosting this website will be down for maintenance thursday june 10th, from approx 07:30-09:30 for an operating system upgrade. *Update: completed at 09:30
gardening in june
All kinds of news to talk about here. We put out our first 50 feet of sunflowers, protected this year with chicken wire. Last years attempts at building a sunflower…
deck stains
Staining decks… I knew I had forgotten to do something the last few years. Looking back, I think we stained it back in 2002 and it was showing a lot…
Theres something about concrete
For the last several months, we have noticed some motion in one or our two telescope piers in the observatory. This is never a good thing. The piers were built…
Napanee Community Garden 2
We continue to show up as volunteers to the Napanee Community Garden located just south of town. There was a good turnout of over a dozen people last night and…
Plant Sale – Napanee
A reminder that there will be a plant sale tomorrow, Saturday May 15th, 2010 at the Napanee District Secondary School (NDSS) from 9am to 1pm. Please do not come early!…