Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
Always good news to hear about local food markets adjusting and becoming more visible and hopefully more successful! From: http://www.frontenacnews.ca/index.php/south-frontenac-news/item/8349-two-new-locations-for-the-frontenac-farmers-market Regular vendors at the Frontenac Farmers Market (FFM) braved a…
Some random notes about May: * peas are starting to come up in raised veg bed #2 with the new pea stands * the grass went 3 shades more of…
What a difference a week makes! On the left you see the crocuses that were coming up on April 13th, beautiful colourful blooms were such a delight after such a…
Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in North America to fully eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation. The Thunder Bay Generating Station, Ontario’s final remaining coal-fired facility, has…
This is a 6 year old HP dv6500 laptop. It’s fan makes the most irritating noise one can imagine. So today, we took 2 hours to take it apart and…
It’s been a fairly quiet season here at SCGO. But the thaw is coming, the snow and ice are going and soon we will be able to be back outside…
Again, my annual plea to all, to stop this huge waste of time and energy, that continues on due to plain old bureaucracy and complacency. Cons: – labour involved in…
From 2013 December 23rd: We’ve recently started watching the Crime drama series Castle, starring Nathan Fillion, whom we first met in the SF series Firefly. We’ve been binge watching and…
Newburgh Canal Bash Saturday January 25th, 2014 Enjoy a great day of winter fun at the 21st annual Newburgh Canal Bash! The festivities begin at 8 am with a pancake…
The end of 2013 came and went with one of our traditional bonfires and fireworks in the bitter cold. We did not last long with the cold and the wind…
We’ve recently started watching the Crime drama series Castle, starring Nathan Fillion, whom we first met in the SF series Firefly. We’ve been binge watching and just completed season2. Lotsa…
The Hobbit, Part 2 aka The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug It’s here! Peter Jacksons’ vision of The Hobbit, based one of the classic Fantasy works of all time. It…
What’s your holiday must see movie list? The ones that you watch over and over and over again, without fail, every year? In no particular order, here are some of…
Our first major snowfall of the season… maybe 10cm, on the night of Tues/Wed November 26/27 2013. The local township snowplow had just gone by the house southbound about 06:00…
For once the TSN panel gets it right. A great game with a lot less of the regular stress of being behind and having to catch up. By halftime we…