Just shopping today and making the rounds in Alpine....interrupted Bennett Jones while he was working on the installation of his super-duper evacuated tube solar hot water system. I stayed long enough to get a fantastic vegan lunch. Didn't get home till almost 6PM - unpacked then just basked in the silence that is the Field Lab. 69,90,40! ,0
Saturday, October 24, 2009
a day in the big city
Just shopping today and making the rounds in Alpine....interrupted Bennett Jones while he was working on the installation of his super-duper evacuated tube solar hot water system. I stayed long enough to get a fantastic vegan lunch. Didn't get home till almost 6PM - unpacked then just basked in the silence that is the Field Lab. 69,90,40! ,0
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Getting cool. Cold weather is just around the corner. Hope Benita has enough fat on her to make it another winter.
You more than deserve a day of leisure. One of the things I love most about Terlingua is basking in the silence of it all.
I'd seem one of the evacuated tube systems being installed a couple of years ago and decided to try something along the line. I bought a bunch of the poly carbonate florescent light tube covers and used them to cover 1/2 inch black pipe. I had quiet a few lengths setup in the back yard and used a 12 volt pump to circulate the water through them and through a radiator I made out of CPVC in one of the bedrooms. With the heat vent sealed off in that room it kept that room about 8 degrees warmer than the rest of the house. (when it was a nice sunny day) Problem was that in the DFW area there just wasn't enough days that weren't partly cloudy to cloudy to make it work out. I wound up scrapping it, but wish I'd have saved it for down here now.
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