Dalian Cutting wood outside today I found it colder than any previous day in the whole winter – even though it was 19 degrees, a good 15 degrees warmer than the coldest days we’ve had so far. The difference was the wind – a bitter, terrible wind. Not even chopping wood could warm me in that wind.
purchase cenforce online I’ve ordered some taps for my maple trees, and I’m planning on making some syrup this year. I may not make much – the universal opinion is that making syrup requires stupendous and ultimately undesirable energy inputs. The most efficient (but least sustainable of course) warming method puts the ratio at three gallons of fuel oil to produce one gallon of maple syrup. Boiling the sap on a wood fire of course results in a great deal more heat waste. An entire cord of wood – about as much wood as I burn all year – I am told can produce fifteen gallons of syrup if it is efficiently applied, not an impressive ratio, and there is no real way I can efficiently apply the heat. I have been considering building a pizza oven onsite, and perhaps the right thing to do is to find a way to have the same oven be usable to boil sap as well. An oven of course greatly increases fuel efficiency.
But I may be able to simply drink my sap. I like soda, which is sugar-water, and sap is the same. So I’ll be trying just drinking the stuff straight, or perhaps boiling it down slightly to increase the sugar content and flavor. I may also get a home carbonator. We’ll see. One way or another, I’ll have the taps and a little hobby for February and March.
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