Saturday, December 10, 2011

Season's First Hard Frost

Well, it is official. After one or two very light patchy frosts, a hard frost has descended upon us. All the paulownia leaves fell off the tree to make a carpet of enormous leaves below it. Yesterday it still had a full crown of green, this morning I watched the leaves drop off seemingly by light pressure as the sun's rays hit it.

-4 C ! (-4x9=-36/5=-7.2+32=24.8 F)
The carpet of pawlownia leaves
The Nasturtiums are maybe down for the count this time.
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2 comments:

  1. Dan R-MDecember 14, 2011 at 10:44 AM

    Hey Eric - I love reading your blog, and so I'm naming you as one of my five Liebster Blog recipients. And I eagerly await the Testening and Cookening. I hadn't ever really given much thought to trying to create a parabolic cooker, but the most recent issue of the Solar Cookers International newsletter has me thinking, and your post on the topic makes it seem much less intimidating...

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  2. EricDecember 14, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    Thanks Dan! I like your blog a lot too! I talk the talk, but you two walk the walk.
    It was a lot of fun making the cooker, and I am eagerly awaiting being able to test it. Hopefully over winter vacation when I have some time off.

    One thing I realized already, is that if it is a windy day, that cooker will parasail away in no time..

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