New Hosting Site 20251009
We have switch hosting providers and the daily updates that normally automatically occur have been suspended until we get things configured again. So items like weather, allsky1 and allsky2, etc…
Its BLT season!
The first Bacon Lettuce Tomato Sandwich of the season… and the first of about 20… take advantage of it while you can! This was a Kellogg’s Breakfast heirloom tomato sliced…
who puts in an OSB floor?
We noted over the last year that a portion of the popup trailer floor was soft. So we opened it up to discover that instead of plywood, orient strand board…
Has it been hot?
From our weather station stats. This is the 6th heat wave (our definition of more than one day at 30C or above), this summer and the current one will be…
scgo radiojove x2 class flare 20241031-2100 utc
This is the capture by the SCGO RadioJove radio telescope yesterday, an X2 class flare. Not sure why we picked it up at all as 21:00utc-4=1700EDT.. the sun was still…
winter 2024
Winter has finally arrived to our area, and with it, no or limited access to the Supersid radio telescope and the RadioJove telescope system. Both are offline and have been…
Souffle Tradition
In honour of Doctor Who in general, Jenna Coleman (the actress portraying various Oswald characters) in specific, we decided to try and make a souffle on Christmas Day in 2013.…
The SCGO Science Library – update
This is actually our first shelf A second pass of the master index vs what is on the shelves was completed. Duplicates have been removed and we are sitting around…
The SCGO Science Library
(not our library shelves) After twenty years of knowing it needed to be done, and about 3 months of doing, and about 2 days of intensive time dedicated to it,…
winter is coming? winter is here!
And every year we have told ourselves we will complete the Library Project. For ten or more years now! But this winter, we have started. We have even completed some…
2023 arrives with cloud
Welcome to 2023, the year that is one older than the last. 2022 ended with a 2 or 3 day blizzard (we lost track inside the house). and now, in…
2022 Seed Saving -Tomatoes
The seeds were all dried and put in their packets today. Nine types of tomato seeds were saved out this year. Anna Russian (mid-large Red), Tiny Tim (red currant) ,…
UAP 2022 June 19 06:13-06:26 UTC
**Updated 2022June20 – other astronomers at the Lennox Addington Dark Sky Site also saw this visually and captured a couple of images. Way to go! Well.. that was a really…
Time of use electricity in Ontario
The province of Ontario installed timeofuse power metering some years ago. The current government has given the option of consumers to go back to a flat rate system as well,…
Waiting for the Sun to come out
While waiting for the sun to come out and too warm up a bit, I did one of those jobs you always say you will get around to , and…