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Wednesday, February 15 2012
February-15th2012-Sunrise Howdy and good morning. This isn't how I started out thinking I'd be doing my newsletter this morning. It actually started with the title BMN Still Seeing Double? I can still address this double BMN issue, but I don't wish to be a nuisance. I'm certain there are as many people who get one or two BMNs in their mail, but don't open it, as people who get two and will write me back allowing me to clean up the mailing list. I'm sayin, it's just as easy for any of us to let it all go on the way it was, as opposed to making something better. I'm still hopeful some of the doormouses will drop me a line and let me know what they are up to, or tell me to piss off, or whatever.
February-15th 2012-Sunrise-Parents-yard. Yep we got a little more snow out of these storms
February-15th 2012-Sunrise-Buddy. This dog likes it out in the snow far better than in the hot old house.
February-15th 2012-Sunrise-Windturbine. I had to plug the Christmas lights in to burn off some of the energy from the wind this month as we are not in our home to use the power from the inverter for our entertainment system.
February-15th2012-Sunrise-Buddy-close.
February-15th 2012-Sunrise-Modular-home. This home has plenty of trees. I'm considering dropping some trees along the south side allowing more solar energy to strike the home.
February-15th 2012-Sunrise-laundry. Whoops, left the laundry on the line. I won't beat myself up too much, I did some house cleaning, split firewood and brought another trailer load over and stacked it in the porch. We also brought the older of our two cats to the veterinarian for Valentines Day. I know weird, but that is what my Valentine wanted. He told us that Isabel is not suffering and probably has a thyroid condition. Nell felt better knowing it was not painful for the cat, and we can let her clock run out naturally (the cat's clock, not Nell's clock. Nell we're gunna fix and keep.)
February-15th 2012-Sunrise-north. All right then, what I started to do this morning but got side-tracked again. Hey you should try writing every morning rain or shine and see how well you stay on course, grin.
Anyway I was reading what someone else wrote and I got engrossed. I'm not great on book reviews, mainly because, ashamedly have fallen out of the practice of reading. I'm here to tell you that this book, of the three that I recently bought, is I think absolutely perfect for the place I'm in mentally and or spiritually. The title is: Earth Sheltered Greenhouses, by Mike Ochler
Anyway I was reading what someone else wrote and I got engrossed. I'm not great on book reviews, mainly because, ashamedly have fallen out of the practice of reading. I'm here to tell you that this book, of the three that I recently bought, is I think absolutely perfect for the place I'm in mentally and or spiritually. The title is: Earth Sheltered Greenhouses, by Mike Ochler
Earth-sheltered-greenhouses. Mike's apparently an old hippie like me. I can totally relate to his greenhouse building and research progressions over the years. He is a fine story teller, which is what happened to me when I went looking for a diagram to photograph so you might know what these unheated quasi-all-season underground greenhouses are all about and why I intend to build one.
Earth-sheltered-greenhouses-losses-gains. Quite eloquently, the author shows that the problem with most greenhouses is the heat losses through the glazing is nowhere near balanced with the natural heat gains found by submerging the greenhouse in a south facing hillside.
Earth-sheltered-greenhouses-cold-sink-theory. Speaking of eloquent, everyone knows that cold air drops to the lowest point right? An issue with the author's early sunken greenhouses was the cold air sat on the Spring seedlings which is counterproductive in a greenhouse made to extend the relatively short growing seasons of northern latitudes such as ours.
The author talks about the damn gophers and mites and grasshoppers, yet still tells an interesting and informative story. It is nice to have humility while at the same time keeping an audience interested.
I wrote to a BMNer yesterday after he suggested I buy a Mac and enjoy life:
It is just that you made me wonder if everyone thinks that because I mess with Linux it doesn't work well. My goal is to be an inspiration, not an example of tire spinning. It is a fine line. Brian
I wrote to a BMNer yesterday after he suggested I buy a Mac and enjoy life:
It is just that you made me wonder if everyone thinks that because I mess with Linux it doesn't work well. My goal is to be an inspiration, not an example of tire spinning. It is a fine line. Brian
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Not yet, next week we hope, for Nell yes I am super stoked about the sunken greenhouse concept. Rand offered the use of his backhoe, maybe we’ll get the greenhouse dug soon
Re Macs. BAH humbug. Had one at work two years and hated every moment. Expensive too. My dad has an iPad now and I don’t like that either. Heavy and clumsy. I’m PC.
Who’da thunk that little sink could make such a difference in the greenhouse heat. Looks like a great project.
Hooray! I vote we fix and keep Nell too. Is she on her feet yet?