SCGO Potatos in
On Friday 2018 May 25th, the SCGO Potato crop was finished planting. In addition to a few earlier types planets in VegBed6, the majority were put in VegBed4. The black…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 2018
Another year and another location for the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden. Yes.. they moved down the field from the previous few years location. The new main bed is approx…
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,…
spring is here?
The last two weekends (2018 May 5-6 and 12-13) have been the first warm and best of the year… now if only the black flies would die off (3 weeks…
ssd upgrade
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are one of the best upgrades you can get for your system (server, workstation and laptop). One of the issues they do have however, is that…
More Linux fedora 28 upgrades
It’s been 24 hours now and the first linux inplace upgrade from fedora 27 to fedora 28 is still working well. So well that I started more upgrades. The first…
Dirt! Earth!
Wonder how much dirt it takes to fill up this raised bed? 1. calculate out cubage in feet: 4’x16’x16″ = 4’x16’x1.3′ = 83 ft^3 2. One yard of dirt is…
Linux Fedora 28 locks up after upgrade
Executive Summary: Fedora 27 to 28 upgrade leaves desktop locked up. Linux Fedora 28 was released yesterday and I missed the note! So first thing this morning I sit down…
spring arrives and things run amuck
One of the “first” real days of spring yesterday (Mon April 30th 2018)… warm temperatures, no rain, wow. The greenhouse: outside the eavestrough was siliconed to help it stop leaking;…
Observatory Renos
This is the main work surface in the observatory, located on the north side. In the roof rebuild, the work surface was relocated to the south side, so as to…
SCGO roof 2
720x480p 7MB video clip made with ffmpeg (converting still image .jpg to .mpg video, handbrake (conversion to mkv to allow movie maker to open it), movie maker for windows to…
High winds, roof flies, RIP SCGO
Yesterday, Wednesday 2018 April 4th, Eastern Ontario had a wind storm. It’s not the first we have had. Back in 2003? we had the remnants of a hurricane roll over…
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…