Upcoming Gardening events
1. ORGANIC VEGETABLE GROWING WORKSHOP by Janette Haase Explore how one can transform one’s diet to one that is local and seasonal without moving to the country. An efficient and…
Sustainable Kingston
Last Saturday January 28th, 2012 we attended the day long 2012 Sustainable Kingston Community Forum. The keynote address was great. Feature Presentation: David Miller, Former Mayor of Toronto — Toronto’s…
Observatory Network link back up
A couple of weeks ago we started getting intermittent network connectivity to the observatory and to the two data gathering systems running there. Yesterday the cable break was temporarily repaired.…
test cr2118
This is a test using Picasa v3.9 for cr2118 Success! So, the object is to easily generate a nicely laid out page of thumbnail images linking to the larger resolution…
L&A HortSoc
L&A HortSoc (code for Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society) met last night (Wednesday January 18th, 2012) at a new location, the Napanee FireHall Training Room. We’ve talked for some time…
summer gardens
Time to start planning the summer vegetable beds. Rather than micromanage this to extremes, we thought this year to rather just plan out the three major crops and fit the…
Radiojove back up
On December 16th, 2011 the laptop computer running the radiojove data logger had a hard drive failure. The Radiojove system continues to run but nothing has been logged or recorded…
wildview
We picked up an outdoor wildview trail camera, in an effort to see exactly how big the problem of deer wandering through the yard and eating everything out of the…
GPS Receiver BU-353
One of the christmas (2011) gifts was a USB GPS receiver, the BU353. As it turns out, for our intended uses of using it strictly as an accurate source of…
allsky cleaning
We had time to inspect the allsky camera dome for the first time since its renovation a month ago. Things are looking very good. The inside platform is completely dry,…
laptop failure
The laptop computer running the radiojove project failed on Friday the 16th of December. Specifically the old 30gb IDE hard drive now makes either no noise or a whole lotta…
Welcome Dora and Payton
Welcome to Dora and Payton! They came out of the Napanee SPCA branch on Saturday.
Fireball! 2011 Dec 12th, 18:04 EST
We were contacted by local media this afternoon about a possible fireball Monday evening. But with no information about time, location, etc it could have been any of a dozen…