Good Friday
Really! It is a good friday! Tonight at 21:00 Eastern is the first CFL football game in two weeks for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Calgary. After Saskatchewan tromps on Calgary…
New WordPress theme test
Our standby wordpress theme has been “aspire” for quite a while. One of the drawbacks is that it was fixed width. As monitors have gotten wider and wider, there was…
North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve
The North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve sign as seen from Road 506 looking south onto the site. The large parking lot with onsite toilets Awesome! Cleanest toilets around! Then again..…
L&A Dark Sky Viewing Area
The Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area (37km north of Napanee on highway 41) can also be used in the daytime! Many often forget that a lot of astronomers…
They’re back!
Two of these wonderful little beasties (tomato hornworms) were found on the tomato plants on August 5th, 2013. Last year they made an appearance on July 18th, and the year…
linux fedora 17 to 19 test
We still have two systems that run on linux Fedora 17 and as you may have read earlier, Fedora 19 came out a few weeks back. We ran into some…
Garlic harvest time
Its that time boys and girls! Harvest time! A lot of the garlic was ready (some not) for picking so we spent most of Saturday morning and some parts of…
HSGeo Bean Project
The Heirloom Seed Growers (of Eastern Ontario) (HSGeo) got together this spring to plant beans. All of them. More than 10 types.. more than 20 types.. more than 30 types?…
In the veg beds
This is a shot of the garlic beds, before we start major harvesting this weekend. Approx 1/2 of the bed with the other half running fallow this summer. This is…
Local critters
Still well before sunset on Thursday July 25th, 2013, this local critter was roaming around the backyard… apparently eyeing up the vegetable beds. I walked up within 10m of it…
early morning conjunction
This is one of many things you can see if you get up before Sunrise! Or at least what Kim sees before sunrise because I was still asleep 🙂 This…
garlic time
It’s that time of year again… garlic harvest time! We’ve already pulled some of the earlier varieties and hung them up to dry in the leaky-roof greenhouse leanto. That’s got…
piers and the earth moved
This is the wooden pier (four 2×6’s in a square with sand on the hollow inside) inside the observatory, built 10 years ago. There is a gap in the floor…
meade lx200 hand controller woes
This is the hand controller for the Meade LX200 GPS telescope. It is approx 10 years old now and the buttons have become a real pain to use. One must…
flower gardens
We had rosebushes that were planted in the corner gardens in 2012 but they did not survive the winter. We finally gave up and pulled out the dead plant material…