Telescope Mirror Cleaning
On Sunday October 27th 2013, 6 members of the Kingston Astronomy Club got together to remove, clean and replace the two optical mirrors in the 16″ telescope. The entire process…
Garlic planting 2013
Today, Saturday October 19th, 2013, looked like the last nice day this season before it got cold and wet and gross. Over the course of two hours prepping the signage,…
Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society meeting
Last night (Wednesday October 16th, 2013) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its regular monthly. The turnout was 21 people and we enjoyed presentations from the guest speaker: Nicolette…
Another aurora
For the 2nd time in a week, another good auroral display down at our 44 degrees of latitude on the evening of 2013 October 8th. The entire good display lasted…
Another Cat
This is Peyton, our other new adoptee. She is a little harder to get a glamour shot of. She does have a good camouflage pattern on her and often blends…
fall
Fall arrived this past sunday (2013 September 22) at 16:44 give or take. It’s been very cool at night for the last little while, with 2 or 3 instances of…
more about frost
I’ve been asked for more numbers about frost in our area… so he is the big picture overview The dates of the first light frost (-1 C) over the last…
L&A HortSoc aka Napanee Garden Club
Last night (Wednesday September 18th, 2013) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its first regular meeting after the summer break. The turnout was 15 people and we enjoyed presentations…
1st Fall Frost!
The 1st fall frost of the season occurred overnight Monday night/Tuesday morning. It went down to -1.6 C in the vegetable patch. This was close to our shortest growing season…
OS Upgrade success
The operating system running this web server was upgrade today from Linux Fedora 17 to Linux Fedora 19 in a little under 4 hours, including 1 hour to make a…