Potatos go in the ground
Our seed potatos from last fall were too eager to get into the ground… long long roots growing even when being stored in our dark cool cold room. Enough was…
Internet problems
For the last 5 days now, our automated routines for copying data from home up to this starlightcascade web server have failed. We are using linux fedora 15 and a…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden update
On Monday April 30th, 2012 7 of us planted 8 more rows in the community garden. Row 11: lettuce starts (chefs choice) plus spinach seed to complete the row Row:12:…
still too cold out
It is now May 1st, 2012. Last night’s low temperature of 7 deg C was the warmest we have had in weeks. The night before was -5. All of this…
International Astronomy Day 2012 April 28
It was International Astronomy Day on Saturday April 28th, 2012 and members and friends of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre were out in force at Confederation…
minor aurora 2012apr25/26
There was some minor aurora seen last night from our location today20120426.gif (38mb) from about 22:00-01:00 We of course missed it by sleeping on a Thursday night, resting for work…
cat stands-r-us
The cats got a new climbing stand built on Sunday plus access to another window to look out, all in one. We built the climbing stand (pictures will follow), out…
The Girls caught one
The girls, only a year old, caught a mouse yesterday… their first one. They cornered it live and were bapping it on the body a few times to get its…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden update
I stopped by to take a look at the operation on Sunday and took some imagery as well. Last year (2011) we took weekly images from the four corners of…
This is Spring right……
Plus 3C, winds from the North, and darn cold out. The peas started to come up after our short rain burst on Friday, and the radishes are slowly coming along.…
Growing Season update
We’ve been collecting temperature data from our weather station for some years now. We’ve analyzed this to determine the number of days our growing season is. Some crops can survive…
Transit of Venus Eclipse Glasses have arrived
We have received our allotment of elcipse glasses, or more aptly named, “transit of venus glasses” and will be distributing them at public events up to the Transit event on…