Seed Sanctuary Workshop reminder
WORKSHOP Sisters of Providence Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop Sat. Feb. 18, 1-4pm – Seed Saving Basics All are welcome, refreshments included, no fees but donations are welcome. Heirloom Seed Sanctuary…
KAON Feb 11, 2012
The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) held an open house/public observing session last night at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory. It’s always a good night when you are on…
Thursday observing
For the first time in simply ages! we had time and weather and temperature and no clouds all at the same time.. enough to go outside and take a quick…
$@#$ hard drives!
So I have a new machine at work to setup. It came with windows 7 on a 1tb drive. We ordered another smaller drive (250gb) to have the operating system…
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,…