The big wood stove in our basement is an important source of winter heat--we
use
much less oil than our neighbors. It's also energy efficient and takes longer
logs. Until this year Johan got all the logs free from fallen trees and split
them himself. This year we paid our neighbor for some of them. He's a friend
and
did not overcharge.
Barbara van Achterberg
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From: Ilse Burch <[email protected]>
To: "Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society; postings copyright by
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Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 7:30:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Alpine-l] Spring is just around the corner (off topic)
We always boiled ours outside. Also, it isn't really economically feasible
unless you can use wood heat, and you have a wood lot. It takes quite a
lot
of BTUs to evaporate all that water!
Ilse
On 2/18/2011 3:25 PM, Barbara vanachterberg wrote:
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>The 30 gallons of sap required to make one gallon of syrup
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>release a lot of moisture into the air and I was urged to turn
>the stove off pronto when the wallpaper started to peel off.
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> That's why we cook the sap in the basement. And we have no
>wallpaper.
>Barbara van Achterberg
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