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?…
2012 – leave your brain at home
went to see the movie 2012 thursday evening, knowing in advance that it was not going to be the most accurate movie in the world… and it wasn’t. Boy was…
Day 3 Leonids
Amazingly enough, this is the 3rd straight day of getting up early early early to observe the Leonid Meteor Shower. The peak was supposed to be yesterday (Tuesday Nov 17)…
More Leonids
Out again early Tuesday morning at 04:00 EST (09:00 UT) to look for Leonids. The skies were pristine but the air was cold.. about -5C. stayed out for about 30…
KAON Public Observing
Title: KAON Public ObservingLocation: Queens Ellis Hall ObservatoryStart Time: 7:30pmDate: 2009-12-12 We will be holding our International Year of Astronomy wrap up this evening, rain snow or shine!
Site upgrade
WordPress was upgraded again this morning and we also moved it to the forefront of the site, moving many of the pages of interest to the “quicklinks” section in the…