-8 magnitude Iridium flare
This is what a -8 magnitude Iridium flare looks like (brightest point in the south south east sky). Pretty neat and pretty bright. The brighter they are the shorter duration…
CFL-3 days and counting
Friday June 29th, 2012 is the first game of the regular season for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the worst team in the league last year. Things can only get better, right?…
A walk by Kingston’s Inner Habour
Some impressive clouds over the Canadian Shield, just north of Kingston
Another day at the NapFBGarden
Yesterday was Thursday June 21st, 2012 and again we visited the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden and spent some time weeding and watering the four rows that we look after.…
L&AHortSoc meeting
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society aka The Napanee Garden Club, met on Wednesday June 20th, 2012 for a pot luck dinner that coincided with the summer solstice (at 19:09…
Food Bank Garden Harvest
And already, only in mid-June, the Napanee Food Bank garden is producing produce. This morning (Tuesday June 19th) 1/2 bushel peas, 1/2 bushel onions and 1 bushel of lettuce were…
Two more mice caught – good and bad
Two more mice have met their ends. The most recent last night was seen making great squeaking noises as Dora bounced it around the house with Peyton looking on from…
Telescope cover modifications
On the left was the existing state of the 20cm LX200gps of the RASC-KC. The wooden cover had to be slid off from left to right and then manually dropped…
Napanee FoodBank Garden week of 2012 June 11
We were assigned rows 5-8 last week and showed up for our first regular, weekly visit to weed and water and otherwise tend to three rows of peas and one…
Nothing like working the holidays
There is nothing quite like working through your holidays. We took two weeks off, started a daily garden log of getting up at sunrise and working as long as we…
Transit of Venus 2012 June 05
The Transit of Venus 2012 has come and gone. It was a great astronomical event. We had lots of equipment and things in general went well. Some preliminary images: Kim…
The Peppers are in
Today finished the planting of all the items started in the greenhouse. The peppers have been planted, the extra tomatoes from the plant sale, and the Batchelor buttons and marigolds…
stupidity run amuck
Copyright board to charge for music at weddings, parades The Canadian Press Posted: Jun 1, 2012 9:33 AM ET From http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/06/01/music-tariff-recorded-copyright-board.html >Money can’t buy love — but if you want…
Summer Gardening Day 5
Friday. Light rain. We need this but it is preventing more work in the gardens. We have completed two flower beds but still have another ten or more to go.…
Summer Gardening Day 4
Thursday. Errands to run later in the day so all we had were about 3 hours to finish weeding the driveway north flower bed and cover it in a dozen…