Newburgh – art among the ruins
It was the 10th anniversary of this great local artist event in Newburgh. It seemed there were more artisans than ever and the weather was nice and so were the…
Colebrook Dam Repair
We went to a town hall meeting event hosted by the Quinte Conservation area, regarding the repair of the Colebrook Dam. Since the last major repairs in the early 1980’s,…
Ganonoque Ribfest
This was our 3rd ribfest in two years and this one was one of the top two! A nice open space, uncrowded (EXCEPT for one thing), not a lot of…
The things nightmares are made of
When we left work early Friday morning (2015 June 26), we had no idea what would be awaiting us upon our return. We spotted it some kms away.. wondering what…
Tomato wrangling
The Heirloom tomatos came out of the greenhouse, spent a few days outdoors and then went into the ground on May 30/31. Stakes and or cages went on them right…
colorado potato bug
It is that time of year again. Colorado potato bugs have arrived. Since we started checking on Sunday (June 14), we have handpicked maybe 20 adults so far and squished…
Radiojove & UPS
Funny how the thing that is supposed to save you from troubles (an Uninterruptible Power Supply powering the RadioJove receiver and computer) is the thing that fails and gives you…
linux fedora 22 issues
We have successfully updated from Linux fedora 21 to fedora 22, 5 systems now, all without any issues whatsoever. The 6th and final system however had failed, 10 times now.…
Potatos 2015
Potato Crop 2015 We planted on Tuesday May 19th and only had the first ones come up (Yukon Gold and Kennebec) on Tuesday June 02, or 15 days later. *…
Heirloom Tomatoes 2015
Its time to put the 2015 tomatos into the ground.. and so they did this past weekend (2015 May 30/31). We have moved past the last killing frost of the…
Linux Fedora 22 released today
Linux Fedora 22 was released this morning and two servers have been upgraded without issue… the smoothest upgrades yet. Total time to complete the upgrade has been about an hour.…
Observatory renovation
After 12 odd years, we decided it was time to renovate the SCG Observatory. It had been going through constant minor modifications from year to year, but this time was…
Garden pathways
We have walking pathways between various vegetable and flower gardens. Last year we laid down a layer of weed cloth and some cedar mulch. The grass went through it like…
building a video finder
We have a large telescope that we are in the process of commissioning. One of the items that popped out of the process was the need for a relatively low…
Bridge building
On one of the days off this month, we needed to replace and or rebuild the small tractor bridge that goes across the creek in our backyard. It was built…