Snowbound
What do we do when stuck inside for the winter? Revisit some classic video. We started with the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Trilogy, which took a little over…
oh2019 bindings and coils
Greetings this penultimate day! In any event, we received out RASC Observers Handbook 2019, a backbreaking 352 pages with narrow margins. As usual, we take it to Staples to get…
David Weber’s Harrington series
From Baen.com: FIRST NEW HONOR HARRINGTON NOVEL IN FIVE YEARS! New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international bestselling phenomenon David Weber delivers book #19 in the multiple…
And suddenly, The Roughriders are in 2nd place!
And suddenly, The Roughriders are in 2nd place! Amazing how that happens over the course of a few weeks. Saturdays game was recorded so we could watch it later.. and…
midsummer pause
It’s the middle of the summer. The garlic harvest is complete and is hanging to dry. That lets us turn our attention to other projects. We have started building a…
It’s a Beautiful Day!
A month of drought, heat waves, cracked soil, dead grass, dead plants and finally we have 4 days of slow rain. 69mm to be exact. And it is awesome! Plants…
garlic harvest 2018
Sunday 2018 July 22nd, the 2nd day of garlic harvest. Saturday was about 3 hours of harvesting just under 200 plants. Sunday was only about 1 hour for just under…
power rankings
Interesting analysis summary. Unsure of the detailed parameters but it looks pretty in the end. The only good news is: being at the bottom means you can only go up…
seti@home
I first joined the distributed computer project SETI@Home back on 1999 April 12th. That means early next year will be 20 years. Wow. Very few things survey for 20 years…
Squirrel!
Squirrels… the bane of bird feeders everywhere. We have two bird feeders on top of a 4×4 post, maybe 6.5′ above ground. Before the last seed dropped into the dish,…
Conjunction moon venus mercury
It was a rare event on Sunday 2018 March 18th, a conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Mercury in the western horizon after sunset. Taken with our old Canon DSLR…
Gardening Season has started at SCG
At the end of February we planted our onion seeds. Alisa Craig, South Port Red Globe and Red Wethersfield (2014) seed. So far only the Alisa Craig and South Port…
Kingston’s prison farms to reopen
Finally! What took them soooooo long??? Prison farms in Kingston had the best stats on prison programs reform. The Previous conservative government under harper aid they were not relevant… funny…
annual daylight saving time rant
Sunday 2018 March 11th, a day that will live in infamy! Yet another (@#%(*^%@#!! daylight saving time switch. Luckily, some with pull are starting to think about it now as…
2018
Welcome to 2018. Welcome to Mars. How do these two statements connect? With this image of the Dora cat with green laser eyes and a very nifty mat. We came…