Pier adieu
You know its going to be a bad day when you see a reciprocating saw in the observatory This is the 2nd of 2 piers that have had to be…
December?
Wow.. another December already? Already three months plus past our first total solar eclipse, out in Southeastern Wyoming. We continue on experimenting with Raspberry Pi model 2B microcomputers and have…
Fireball sat 2017nov11 00:10:15 EST
Reviewing allsky camera events overnight with coffee this morning and found this great big fireball in the north, heading north at 05:10:15 UT 2017nov11 -5 hours puts it at Saturday…
RadioJove system repairs and mods
Last week we noticed that the cable connected to the southern dipole antenna of the RadioJove system was broken/disconnected. Not a surprise as it has been up for over six…
Garlic Bulbils planted
Another garlic related project… bulbils. They were planted last night, Monday 2017 Nov 06, in vegbed#7 and covered in straw. The plantings are complete! For more information about garlic please…
Garlic planting Sat 2017 Nov 04
This is the dibbler. It has 6 dowels on the bottom spaced at 6″ apart. Spacing between types of garlic is 8″, with spacing between rows of the same type…
Garden signage for garlic
Three years ago, we printed off the names of the types of Garlic we had and had them laminated at Staples. They were cut apart and stapled onto 1×2 stakes.…
Allsky2 Updates
The Allsky2 computer system suffered a drive failure a month or so ago. Luckily it was part of a software RAID setup, so there was not a lot of lost…
L&A Hort met last night
The Napanee Garden Club (aka The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society) met last night at the Napanee Fire Hall Community Room at 7pm. The guest speaker led off, Mick from…
Killing Frost
That time of year again… -3C and falling this morning. This is cold enough to kill off any garden plant still standing above ground. We harvest peppers the day before.…
LED lighting
Another major light fixture has bitten the dust. Our kitchen light fixture had 3x60watt incandescent bulbs. It was really never enough light for the kitchen and so when we came…
Potatos 2017
It looks like I forgot to post back May the type and numbers of potatos we planted. Since I am about to talk about what we harvested, it would be…
Potato harvest 2017
The potato patch in Veg4 was dug up this past weekend. It took us about 2 hours to dig up 6 hills each of 10? types. Will have to check…
Aurora 20170928
Just before 02:00 Thursday morning we were outside and imaged some aurora stuff. It’s been *ages* since we saw aurora stuff! This is a 30sec exposure on the 13 year…