widespread power outage oct 27th 2015
Yay! The day before the remnants of Hurricane Patricia (from down Puerto Vallarta Mexico way) were scheduled to run over us, the city of Kingston Ontario and the surrounding area,…
Whats Up This Week?
What’s up this week? From the RASC 2015 Calendar Saturday 2015 Oct 24 Venus 1.7 deg upper right of Jupiter before sunrise Sunday 2015 Oct 25 Venus 1.2 deg right…
L&A Hort met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (meetings are normally the 3rd Wednesday of the month), at the Napanee Firehall Community Room, 7pm.…
Election day results vs forecast
The moral of this story… polls can be wrong, are most certainly wrong. In the case of our riding, they were off by 11% of the vote. —— Of note…
Election Day 2015
Of note today is the website http://www.threehundredeight.com/p/canada.html where they have the latest forecasts, updated yesterday, of all of the polls into a riding by riding breakdown. We are going to…
List of garlic planted in 2015
We’ve been asked by several people to post the master list of all of the various garlic types we plant. Below is the list of what went into the ground…
Latest frost data
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…
Morning Planetary Conjunction
Up early on the morning of Saturday 2015 October 10th, before sunrise, to see (from top to bottom) Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Moon. Mercury was coming up but did not clear…
garlic 2015
The results of 4 hours of planting out 74 types of garlic, over 500 cloves in all, for the 2015/2016 crop. It was a wonderful day, cloudy to start, sunny…
A visit with Paul
Last week we managed to stop in and have a visit with Paul at Beaver Pond Estates near Maberly Ontario. All of the garlic had long since been harvested and…
Holleford Meteor Crater
It’s been a few years since we last stopped in at the Holleford Meteor Crater, northeast of the hamlet of Holleford in the Township of South Frontenac north of Kingston…
Earth Moving
Seven yards of garden mix earth arrived and in the next week or two will be moved into various vegetable beds and maybe even some flower beds. It is garlic…
Vickis Veggies Tomato Tasting Festival
Vickis’ Veggies Tomato Tasting Festival was also on the weekend and we went down to lower Prince Edward County on Sunday Sept 6th early in the morning (another hot and…
Verona Garlic Festival
Saturday September 5th, 2015 saw the annual Verona Garlic Festival. It was another hot hot humid humid summer day and we are glad we went earlier in the daytime. It…