More Jupiter & Venus
Here are two images from Sunday night after 21:00edt from our backyard, looking west at Jupiter (left) and Venus (right). The left image is a 15 second exposure and the…
Sheffield Conservation Area
Lennox and Addington County is considering setting up an observing area in the Sheffield Conservation Area, just off highway41 between Erinsville and Kaladar. We went up to check the place…
Fun with Plumbing!
Last weekend came a long procrastinated task… replacing the bath/shower fixture. It had been corroded for some years, been leaking for some months and we went out and bought a…
Three planet conjunction
Ok.. at least a two planet conjunction with Jupiter and Venus very close together in the Western sky. Going from left to right, Jupiter is first, Venus is second, Mercury…
Prep for Spring
It’s that time of the year… time to prep for spring. The greenhouse took some minor exterior damage in the windstorm of Saturday 2012 March 3rd. That will be fixed…
Seedy events upcoming
SEEDY SATURDAY and other events http://www.seeds.ca/ev/events.php Seed Sunday in Perth Ontario Canada Sunday March 4th 10:00-3:00 Royal Canadian Legion, 26 Beckwith St. E. Free Admission, gardening related talks and presentations,…
Eco Farm Day 2012
The Canadian Organic Growers Ottawa Chapter hosted the Eco Farm Day 2012 Conference in Cornwall this weekend (Feb 25, 2012). We drove up to Cornwall (normally a 90-100 minute trip,…
Conjunction
Last night, Saturday Feberuary 25th, 2012 we got home late, could not drive into the driveway due to the too high snowplow created ridge and had to stop outside on…
Venus and Jupiter
Monday evening 2012 February 20, it was not too cold, it was clear, and we were not too sick from colds and flu. So outside we go to find Venus…
Sweet potatos anyone?
Growing Sweet Potatos presented by the Tamworth/Erinsville Grassroots Growers. Tuesday February 21st, 7:15 pm at the Tamworth Library Brian Burt of Burt’s Greenhouses on propogating sweet potatos from cuttings and…
Sun Column
Saturday was a good day .. not only did we get to see a nice aurora, we also came across this sun column near sunset on 2012 feb 18th. “These…
The Walking Dead
We watched an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead for the first time last night and were reminded of it by this photo of Dora. She’s a dead ringer for…
allsky operational again
The allsky laptop computer had a drive failure Friday around midnight. Since then we’ve been running drive diagnostics and repair attempts until just this morning it is back up and…
L&A HortSoc, the County’s Garden Club!
L&A HortSoc (code for Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society) met last night (Wednesday February 15th, 2012) at the new location, the Napanee FireHall Training Room. We set up the room…