Possible ice/frost quake
On a side note, it hit -27C at about 01:30 this morning… and the house did make some cracking noises. More interestingly, an apparent frost quake or icequake hit the…
Jupiter 20161208
Another morning forecast to be cloudy but turned out to be relatively clear. Temp: -1C Transparency: average (based on 40-50ms exposure time giving 80% histogram exposure and Seeing: poor (based…
Jupiter 20161206
Surprisingly, it was “clear” again this morning, against all predictions from last evening. Rolled outside around 05:15 EST to low level fog and -5C and a frozen stuck roll off…
next raspberry pi project
Now that the 1st Raspberry Pi Project has been up and running for a good and solid two months with the Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories Weather Station, it is…
Frost data 2016
We’ve been running a weather station here since 2003 and as a result, have local data for temperatures. This has been especially important as our vegetable and flower gardens really…
Continuing unstable linux kernel 4.8.x
Over a month now of seeing almost daily lockups and kernel panics and crashes of the 4.8.x series of linux kernels used in fedora 24 and now 25. The problem…
Jupiter 20161123
The first powerup of the 20cm meade lx200gps (circa 2003) after the operation showed a display full of garbage characters. The second powerup showed normal operation… yay! The first pass…
Unstable linux kernel
For about a month now, ever since we started using the linux fedora 24 kernel series 4.8.x, we have been having intermittent crashes and lockups of four of our linux…
meade lx200gps battery replacement
As it turns out, when starting up a Meade LX200GPS telescope (circa 2003), and it displays a few rows of “taking GPS fix”, this means that the internal battery is…
KAON Saturday 2016 November 12
Greetings partially clear skies! For the first time in awhile the skies were clear enough to set up on the observing deck! The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) open house…
Master Garlic List 2016
Here is our master list of garlic types planted on Fri & Sat 2016 November 4&5 The missing numbers are ones that we have decided not to plant this year..…
Fall 2016 Garlic planted
It took us two days, 1 hour after work on Friday and almost 2 hours Saturday morning, to get the approx 500 bulbs of garlic planted in Veg bed #5.…
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…
more gardening garage work
Prior to the garlic prep mentioned below, we had to clean and store the potato crop, to make room to work on the garlic. This is a sample of one…
garlic planting prep
Time seems to be in shorter supply every trip round the sun. This year we seem to have fallen behind so much so that it may be another couple of…