Posted on

We’re Boiling

The operations is smoother, the kids are older. Sugaring season is liminal time between Winter and Spring sitting by the evaporator for hours on end. Often prompting discussions we wouldn’t otherwise have. I love this time of the year very much.

Now this Winter has been more more “normal” for Vermont, and sugaring season started the week after Town Meeting day which is tradition I hear, but not anything we’re used to. Sap hit hard these past few days and we had to start boiling it off fast to make room for more.

Posted on

Thermosiphons Everywhere

The initial thermosiphon I designed the house with has been such a success that I made sure to include such airflow in every new addition. I went through great annoying lengths to include one in the new tree house room but it’s well worth it. Placed on the edge of the house as it is, it would quickly become too cold in the Winter and too hot in the Summer if it weren’t for passive air circulation.

Posted on

Another Room Done

Tucked in a weird corner of a stair case.

It’s tiny with a tree house feel to it, we can barely stand in it.

We haven’t had an upstairs window facing this direction since the original tiny house we moved into, and now there is a an orchard to be admired.

It’s quirky as heck and we love it.