garlic scape harvest
Kim started harvesting garlic scapes a couple of days ago and so far they are a big hit with some of the folks at work who tried them out with…
allsky mpeg fails
Looks like the upgrade to Linux Fedora 11 broke something… the image magick conversion process of *.jpg into today.mpeg has been failing since the upgrade. Will have to track that…
another fedora11 upgrade
From the last post, more fedora 11 upgrades have been performed with the same results as below… Failure to find the Master Boot Record and start up the OS. A…
The world of software
Software is always changing.. always upgrading.. and today is no difference. WordPress, the engine that drives this blog, was updated this morning to v2.8 In other news, Linux Fedora 11…
Last big IYA event until the fall
Last night was our last big event of the International Year of Astronomy until the fall. It was a Public Lecture at BioSciences Complex Room 1101 Queens University with Prof.…
Cancer Society Relay for Life
Friday June 5th, 2009 was our 4th appearance at the Cancer Society Relay for Life event, this year at the Royal Military College Parade Ground. Kim & I arrived on…
June is still cool
Kim reports no scapes appearing on the garlic… it has been cooler than normal and I think we might finally be free of the frost. We did end up adding…
cool growing
In the last two weeks since we transplanted from the greenhouse into the garden, it has been cool, cold, windy, frosty and even a little hail. Many plants (tomato) have…
Planets in the morning
This is one of many images from Tuesday morning, watching Venus rise in the east just after 4am and Jupiter already well up in the southeast. We went out that…
raccoon menace
Two weeks ago all of the baby robins and eggs disappeared from the nest overlooking the back deck. A week ago we found a young raccoon up our back tree…
need a holiday from the holiday
Another (2009) spring week off from work to catch up on the yardwork. 8 of 9 days we worked to the point of insanity prepping the yard, the gardens, the…
may long weekend
The long weekend in May is fast approaching, the traditional time to move the plants out of the greenhouse and house and into the ground. The portable heater combined with…
packed weekend
Wow… Friday night was busy prepping for Saturdays May 2nd Astronomy Day… and then we spent 8 hours down in Market Square showing people the sun with a Coronado solarmax…
ubuntu 9.04
The Linux Ubuntu distribution was released yesterday and I just happened to have a workstation with 1/2 a hard drive empty and waiting for something just like this. It’s an…
Greenup!
Sunday saw the Greenup! festival at the Kingston K-Rock centre. We barely found out about it a couple of days in advance but luckily were able to change plans in…