We’ve been watching an excellent crowdfunded documentary series called Woodlanders. It brought to our attention a guy working to reintroduce the chestnut tree to American forests. We couldn’t believe it was even possible to acquire young chestnuts so we pretty much had to place an order. It arrived this week and to our surprise it still had leaves from the season previous. This is when it hit us what it meant to be planting this.
We’re moving the garden to an area closer to the house and with much better soil
Found a few carrots from last season 🙂
Added 18 blueberry plants to the ~40 we have now; 18 more to come in 2 weeks.
I threw the last logs in the stove and promptly went after a couple more small ash trees. For a brief moment, we were all out of firewood.
We’ll take all the drying we can get
This is the greenest we’ve burnt, literally minutes between tree to firewood. Ash is seriously impressive.
The solar instrumentation has been lacking for a couple of months since the solar panels’ current sensor blew up. It took 2 months because there has been a lot mistakes and learning along the way. It should have been simple, replace the 30A sensor by a 100A one right?
Well it wasn’t. First I ordered the wrong 100A sensor, meant for AC use. Then I had a myriad of issues around calibration.
All these little things I could have picked on their own, but together they conspired to make me thoroughly confused and left me seeking support from the Phidgets forums. I was once more impressed by Phidgets, the help I got was fast and efficient. Phidgets are more expensive but I was proven once more that they are worth every penny. They have many other advantages, I have nothing but good things to say about them.
Calibration, I really need to tidy things up in there
I’ve learned a LOT of lessons with this one. Not the least of which is to be ok with the imperfections of analog data. I’m a discrete data type of guy, it doesn’t come naturally to accept skews & variations.
Winter is clinging on this year
The blueberries which showed up in the mail will have to wait a few days in the greenhouse.
This has been an amazing year for sap flow but we did not make the most of it. I was doing the heavy labor by myself, wood was running out, Winter had been long, boiling days unpleasant. So we pulled the plug being satisfied with 6 gallons which will suffice for our yearly consumption.
Shiplap shipment
This little guy is about to get a very nice bedroom
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