Garden Weather

Current weather in the garden
temp: 58.6 F (14.8 C)
humidity: 57%
wind: Calm
pressure: 29.38" (994.8 mb)
station: KILWHEAT3
Last Updated on March 11, 4:59 PM CST

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  • just reserved a landscape camera lense and picked up a belt system for my camera gear at Calumet for CoD stormchase next month. I'm all set! 4 days ago
  • anybody played with one of these? http://j.mp/ahZR3h possible 'dash cam' for storm chasing? Mentioned by Cris Novy at Dupage svr wx conf 4 days ago
  • Heading to DuPage severe weather conference to speak on must have technology for spotters/chasers. What's your must have tech? 5 days ago
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2008 Begins

I snapped this picture early this evening as a light snow fell. My camera, nor my photography skills do justice to the beauty of the trees covered in a light dusting of fresh snow.

A new year has started and I have at [...]

Water as a cold frame heat sink

I happened to be out taking pictures of the family making a snow man and took the opportunity to snap a couple pictures of the garden in winter. Man is it ugly.

You can see the 3×8 (roughly) cold frame still hanging in there.  I’m having problems getting a steady signal from the wireless temperature gauge [...]

Seeds – It’s that time of year again

I don’t know if I’m getting anxious or what, but I have this feeling I should have received my seed catalogs by now.  I thought for sure Seeds of Change would have sent them by now, but it doesn’t look like they are out yet.  And my Park Seeds catalog just arrived a few days [...]

Get out in nature!

My wife and I have decided to take a family trip out to California to see the grandparents (my mom/dad) and the extended family.  My family loves Yosemite National Park and I’ve been going there since I was a kid.  I’ve only been to the "high country" or "high seirra" a couple times, one of [...]

Shadow Casting

[warning...math makes my brain bleed so I take no responsibility if the information below is completely wrong or calculates the shadows in effect on the moon instead of my house. Use at your own risk]

So I got to thinking of how to use the southern side of my house for growing plants.  I had thought [...]