CSA CSA CSA
We have joined our first CSA … Community Shared Agriculture. (as opposed to the Canadian Space Agency). For those not aware of this, it is a system where consumers (us)…
Upgrade upgrade upgrade
Upgrades tend to be never ending… in the last week alone we have: replaced a 5m ethernet cable as it was too short and baseboard heater damaged moved the house…
Winemakers
Today we are winemakers! Or rather will be in 5 or 6 years. We ordered 4 grape wines each of: Concord and St. Pepin. This will be an interesting few…
support live music
Live music is wonderful. Live theatre is wonderful. Combine the two together and you get both Jann Arden on January 25th and Tom Cochrane on February 4th performances on stage…
Linux Fedora 12
Another smooth albeit a little slow upgrade to Linux Fedora 12 on this server this morning. Took about 3.5 hours of processing on a very old P4@1.7GHz server. After that…
Eco Farm Day 2010
We came across this conference coming up in late February with more information from their website: http://www.cog.ca/ottawa/ecofarmday/ENhome.html “Keeping it Local and Sustainable” Welcome to Eco Farm Day – eastern Ontario’s…
seeds & christmas
Not only are the christmas decorations and sales items still available in Canadian Tire (Napanee), but the see racks have been set up as well! I was a little taken…
server issues
The server running this website had a problem over the weekend (say from Saturday morning at 9am) but was successfully restarted this morning around 07:45. The static pages worked fine…
too cold for wind?
We had a lot of wind blow through last night… yet the weather station reports everything as calm calm calm. #*&(@(& wind speed sensor is iced up again. Such is…
solstice time!
Winter Solstice came by yesterday (Monday Dec 21, 2009) at 12:57pm EST. We did a little dance around the fire to celebrate… ok.. it was the BBQ. But we still…
winter is coming
It has been pretty mild up to now… only one big storm with snow and then rain and then freezeup, but all in all not too bad. In the next…
Birdseed
Ever wonder where your birdseed goes? Especially after filling up a feeder with small feed meant for chickadees, finches and the like and finding it empty the very next morning?…