Napanee Community Food Bank Garden work
We dropped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden on Thursday June 28th, 2012 and again on Thursday July 5th to do some work, mainly weeding and watering. It has…
Canada Day in Bath Ontario 2012
So we were walking down Main Street in Bath Ontario, around 10:30 am on Sunday July 1st, 2012. And in a quick second we were in the middle of a…
conjunction pleiades, jupiter, venus
On the morning of Sunday 2012 July 01 (Happy Canada Day!) we were up and outside at 04:00 to observe and photograph this conjuntion of the Pleiades star cluster, the…
July 4th, Happy Holidays to our friends to the south
It was a very restless sleep overnight, very hot and muggy. We got rain that we needed, and in the transient sleep I saw lighting flashes, strange squeels and the…
observatory network recabled
After years of bad, intermittent and in some cases no network access from the observatory at all, we fixed it. The original cat5 cable was laid down almost ten years…
5 weeks and done!
The many flower beds are done. After being mostly left alone for a few years, we tackled them all, pulling grass and weeds and covering in mulch for 5 weeks.…
-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…