The elm tree we had to have taken down was, by my count, 59 years old. About 10 years worth of rings on the outside are much narrower, telling me that’s when it started to become less healthy.
Author: doug
Cookies
We had a dead tree taken down today. I asked them to leave me a couple of wood cookies, 6″ thick slices of trunk. I’ll make a couple of rustic outdoor tables from them. Currently they’re wet and the larger one weighs more than I do, and they’re bound to split as they dry. But I think they’ll make nice outdoor tables.
Bonus picture: the trunk these came from.
Nice rack
Solar installation proceeds! Yesterday they installed the racking system and the receiver units for each panel. If you count you’ll see there are 24 spots. All that’s left is to install & connect the panels themselves (scheduled for Monday) — and then wait out the bureaucratic processes to allow us to turn the system on. When done it should produce 7200 kWh annually, enough to supply our entire house.
Solar part 1
A lot of coin
Puddle
Hyper Local Beer Festival
Zim
Lift
OK, it’s not Throwback Thursday but I had to post this one. This photo of a photo is me, at New England’s first chairlift, in about 1977. I am told that my grandfather (my mom’s dad) saved opening day one season by fixing the lift — he worked for Gates Rubber Company (which made industrial belts), and was able to repair the main drive. Can anyone name the ski area? (I do know the answer).