That sounds idyllic, Dean.
I was looking at Jøtul stove yesterday, an Ild3. We will refurbish our Annex
in a couple of months’ time and we want to replace our Morsø Squirrel with
something more modern. But madame wants to stick with a British stove, the
Charnwood Cove I. In our main house we have a Charnwood Island III, a large
fire pushing out a max of 12kw (over 40,000BTU), helped with a Caframo Ecofan –
a lovely gizmo for our old house.
For your measurements of the sun’s position at rise and set, are you on flat
ground?
Chris
On 5 Jan 2014, at 18:27, Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris Trask recently posted about the upcoming nasty weather for much
> of the eastern US. We live just east of St. Paul, MN. I'll try to get a
> photo of our large dial-type outdoor thermometer tomorrow--it may well be
> in the minus 20s F. But we love it here.
> It was minus ten F. outside when we got down for breakfast. And plus
> 75 in our closed-off living room with the Jotul wood stove slowing eating
> through the remains of the ten full cords of red oak I cut to length and
> split a couple years ago. Happiness is reading the Sunday paper in warmth
> and comfort, with the sun pouring its own BTUs through the south-facing bay
> windows. (Contrary to the energy stored in the red oak, these BTUs were
> produced, what, 8 1/2 minutes before?)
> And spring is on its way. A few years ago I pounded in four steel
> fence posts near the top of a hill. The one to the east is my "standard."
> About 30' away to the southwest is a second fence post. Using the dark
> filter from an arc-welder's facemask, I can look at the sun as it sets on
> the horizon, and I have the top of the standard and the top of the SW post
> aligned to mark just where the sun sets on December 21. Yesterday at
> sunset the sun was a whole two sun diameters to the north of its
> southern-most setting. So spring is coming, right? The two other fence
> posts mark the sun's setting position on the Spring and Fall Equinox and
> the Summer Solstice. It's my own little "Fencehenge," so to speak. If
> you're curious, at the time of the Spring and Fall Equinox, the sun moves
> an entire sun diameter to the north or south, respectively, on each
> succeeding sunset. Someday I'll try to capture this with a 24-hours-apart
> double exposure. (There, my OM content for the post.)
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