Jupiter 20260404
Last night was a good example of the downside of rolloff observatories. Yes it was clear but it was also very windy and gusty and…
The Drive is done
The system was shut down, the new WD Green 3TB drive (about $130 from amazon.ca) was installed and the system restarted. Linux fdisk does not partition greater than 2TB so…
new roof wheels
A four hour job on Saturday morning led to the removal of the observatory roll off roof wheels (they were low profile 1″ rollers that did not roll well) and…
The Veg is In
The last of the vegetables have been planted. By my count (which is almost certainly off), 55 heirloom tomato plants of 12 types were planted in the ground this past…
Drive failure terror
This is a Seagate Barracuda Green 2tb sata hard drive with a date code of 12181 (which is 2011 October 31). It is a model # ST2000DL003. It failed Sunday…
Rabbit Season
Yesterday we completed the new rabbit fence around our outside-the-backyard-fence vegetable gardens. It is made of 160 feet of 4′ chicken wire, standing about 3′ high with a 1′ bend…
Gardening Season
It’s gardening season and there have been a lot of gardening related events of late. Here was an entertaining 2 hours with Mark Cullen at the local Napanee Home Hardware…
Peas please
The peas are coming up strong this spring. This image of the peas in raised Vegetable Bed #2 is from this morning (Tuesday 2014 May 13th). Note yet another experiment…
Farmers Market changes in the local area
Always good news to hear about local food markets adjusting and becoming more visible and hopefully more successful! From: http://www.frontenacnews.ca/index.php/south-frontenac-news/item/8349-two-new-locations-for-the-frontenac-farmers-market Regular vendors at the Frontenac Farmers Market (FFM) braved a…
Damien Peach
At the Astrocats trade show in Hamilton this past weekend (2014 May 3-4), one of the guest speakers was the foremost amateur astrophotographer in the world today, Damien Peach. His…
April Showers? May Showers!
Some random notes about May: * peas are starting to come up in raised veg bed #2 with the new pea stands * the grass went 3 shades more of…
Rogers. hmmpph.
Earlier this year, Rogers Communication notified the Township of Stone Mills council that Rogers would be putting up a 106 metre tall guyed cell tower. About 400 metres away from…
peas and lettuce
It’s April, it’s not freezing as much as it did, and the ground has thawed. Yesterday 300kg of composted sheep manure stopped by and we started putting it into the…
Now you see them now you don’t!
What a difference a week makes! On the left you see the crocuses that were coming up on April 13th, beautiful colourful blooms were such a delight after such a…
Ontario – coal free! since 2014 April 15th
Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in North America to fully eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation. The Thunder Bay Generating Station, Ontario’s final remaining coal-fired facility, has…
L&A Hort club met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 April 16th at the Napanee Fire Hall community/training room. The guest speaker was member Judy Bullock who…