Napanee Community Garden Stats 2016
Despite one of the driest summers on record… a level 3 drought condition was decalred by the local Conservation Authority, on site irrigation helped to produce one of the better…
Farewell Dog River
Farewell Dog River Saskatchewan. We visited the set of Corner Gas on August 30th 2006, located in Rouleau Saskatchewan (south of Regina). It was great! The image above is one…
tesla powerwall
Today (Friday 2016 Oct 28) will be an announcement from Elon Musk about the Tesla Powerwall. This is a very interesting concept of storing power in your home and trying…
Greenhouse leakage
The new poly roof went up on the greenhouse 12 months ago, and has had since day one, a water leak whenever the wind is blowing while raining. That happens…
Drought continues
Water levels remain extremely low in the area and the local Quinte Conservation area is still declaring us to be in a drought situation. We have had and are getting…
Before Sunrise
For those astronomers and others who do not get up before sunrise, just take a look at one of the spectacular views you are missing! This was taken on the…
Canadian Football
A couple of weeks later and things do not look nearly so bad. I’m talking about how the Saskatchewan Roughriders at 1 win 10 losses, last in the league then…
Electricity Costs in Ontario Canada
Looking at our summer rates of electricity her in Ontario Canada provided by the Hydro One Network (as it is a big political issue of late): cents/kwh Low 8.7 Mid…
Quinte Airshow 2016
Good news, bad news, the Quinte Airshow has returned after a 10 year absence. I’ll start by saying, all-in-all, it was good news. The airshow itself was great and the…
New Adirondack Chairs
We had a 10+ year old swingset here on this spot for the last few years. The top had disintegrated and broke, the seat was bad and we finally got…
Jupiter 20160524 UT
It’s been 10 days since my last imaging run, mostly because of being away for the last week and then prepping for the last week. Went outside and discovered that…
Ontario Canada Electricity rates, highest in North America?
A news story today from http://www.640toronto.com/syn/104/88985/hydro-rates-climbing-ont *** It’s now going to be just a little bit pricier to do your laundry or run the dishwasher in the middle of the…
Mars 20160319
After a late night of imaging Jupiter, I was up early on Saturday morning with a coffee, brain not yet engaged, when I looked outside to see it still dark…
Even more conservation
Our electricity rates in Ontario I believe are the highest in Canada. We use time of day with 8.3; 12.8 and 17.5 cents/kwh at offpeak, midpeak and onpeak demand. The…
Daylight Saving Time is a bad idea
Another semi-annual rant against changing time. It is amazing how much inertia this has… created to save energy costs 100 years ago and people still think it is applicable and…