BYC Café

[Shadrach]

It's that time of year again.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Good morning Cafe! It's been busy over here the last few days!

Time to pull out the home-raised turkey and potatoes from the garden last year. It's a nice quite lazy weekend up here in Grand Étang. Sunny for now, but we're suppose to get some strong winds later today.

 

[Sally PB]

Turkey was on sale last week, so I bought one. DH said there's no reason to put it in the freezer for sometime in the future.

Turkey for dinner tonight!

 

[bruceha2000]

And the house smells DEVINE!

My wife would be very NOT happy with the house smelling strongly of coffee.

One would have thought that it was within everyones long term interest to use less energy

Yes but (isn't there always a "but"?)

Prior to the "climate change" issue, efficiency meant replacing current electric devices with similar ones that use less electricity. Replace your electric dryer and water heater with natural gas or propane. Same with your kitchen stove (cooker for you Brits ).

But: we are supposed to get off fossil fuels due to climate change. Here people mostly heat with fuel oil, propane or for those closer to cities, natural gas. What do you replace the furnace with? Heat pumps and they use electricity. Substantially less electricity than resistance heat units but way more than oil/gas furnaces.

Vehicles burn gasoline or diesel. What do you replace them with? Electric or plug-in hybrids, both use electricity. I don't know how much electricity my Prius Prime used in the last 1,500+ miles (2,414 km) (since September) but I used only 8 gallons (30 litres) of gas. My wife uses between 20 and 30 kWh daily (seasonally dependant) commuting in her all electric Leaf.

So you end up using MORE electricity no matter how efficient you try to be with what you have.

So far the net connected solar arrays have annually covered the total electric usage for the cars and the house. Installed 2015 and 2020 (when we got the Leaf)

 

[sourland]

Good morning. I've brewed another pot of coffee.

 

[aart]

It's that time of year again.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Thanks for the coffee! It is a beautiful day here in the high country. Up near 50F, sun, and no breeze. Enjoy the day!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Supposed to rain all day here. We do need it. It will help the beans and peas germinate. There are always things to be done indoors. Fixing up another brooder so i can put the remaining batch of chicks outdoors. Then time to clean the studio and air it out.

 

[DobieLover]

My wife would be very NOT happy with the house smelling strongly of coffee.

Yeah. My sister is married to one of those weirdos too. He also doesn't like chocolate!!
Must be due to a genetic mutation of some kind. The poor things.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Cafe. Good day learned something new. Never heard of using coffee grounds.
Start saving them ask the coffee shop across the highway if they let me have theirs.