Castle
From 2013 December 23rd: We’ve recently started watching the Crime drama series Castle, starring Nathan Fillion, whom we first met in the SF series Firefly. We’ve been binge watching and…
Cold cold and more cold
Today is Thursday January 23rd, 2014 It was -30C this morning The previous three days have also been very very cold: Monday Jan 20: -26C Tuesday Jan 21: -35C Wednesday…
Newburgh Canal Bash Saturday January 25th
Newburgh Canal Bash Saturday January 25th, 2014 Enjoy a great day of winter fun at the 21st annual Newburgh Canal Bash! The festivities begin at 8 am with a pancake…
Ted Maczka – the fish lake garlic man
Ted Maczka, is the (Prince Edward) County’s legendary Garlic Man. He’s on a mission is to make Canada self-sufficient in garlic. He’s been called “the Johnny Appleseed of Garlic” for…
Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society meeting
Last night (Wednesday January 15th, 2014) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club) held its first Regular Meeting of 2014. 27 people were present to hear the guest…
Occultation of Regulus by 163 Erigone – 2014 March 20
General info from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/163_Erigone) On March 20, 2014, Erigone is expected to occult the first-magnitude star Regulus. This event will be visible along a path about 40 miles wide…
Laptop upgrade
A few month back we successfully replaced a toshiba laptop 2.5″ spinning hard drive with a 120GB SSD (solid state Drive). It was a simple single primary NTFS partition that…
Somewhat Clear Skies but no aurora
It has been cloudy or very cold for too many weeks now. We came home from an astronomy meeting and it was not that cold (-8C) and not that windy…
2013 departs
The end of 2013 came and went with one of our traditional bonfires and fireworks in the bitter cold. We did not last long with the cold and the wind…
Canon A2400IS bites the dust
This was our only digital camera, a Canon A2400IS. We got it in September of 2012 and up until 2 months ago, have been ecstatic about it. It was high…
ice storm 2013
Ice Storm 2013 ran from December 19th through the 22nd. We personally suffered a single 5 second power outage on the afternoon for Saturday the 21st. No tree damage so…
Castle
We’ve recently started watching the Crime drama series Castle, starring Nathan Fillion, whom we first met in the SF series Firefly. We’ve been binge watching and just completed season2. Lotsa…
Linux Fedora 19 to 20 updates a breeze
Linux Fedora 20 was released earlier this week and the operating system updates on all but one server went the smoothest, fastest and with the least issues ever. The standard…
the Hobbit – desolation of smaug
The Hobbit 2 aka The Desolation of Smaug – was released just over a week ago but we did manage to find the time to sit in the 2 hour…
Geminids 2013
This is the compilation image of 91 meteors imaged last night (2013 Friday/Saturday December 13/14) of the Geminid meteor shower from the Allsky2 camera system. North is down, east is…