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[WILLIAM <billymegab AT yahoo.com>]

Hi mrie,
   
  Nice to hear from you.  
  Wouldn't have guessed you were in Illinois, but I guess as long as there is 
a bit of wilderness the deer and the coyotes will come.  I'm in horse country 
30 miles north of Toronto and we definitely have both.
  After a few years of unemployment I just got a job offer so cheese making 
is not really on the table.  It's just I love the country and growing things 
and living a healthy simple life style so that's where I get those crazy 
ideas.
  Sorry to hear about your loss.  I can imagine it is not easy to regroup.  
But, GOd willing,  you will make it work (with the help of a few friends).
   
  Take care and keep well
   
  William 

Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net> wrote:
  William wrote:

< 
Sounds like you're doing a great job.

Wondering if you are a working farm or rathar keeping a few animals. I
keep thinking cheese making would be fun (but I suspect you might need quite
a few sheep or goats) to get enough milk. But artisan cheeses are certainly
tasty and perhaps finacially lucrative if done well.>>

This was once a working dairy goat farm, but I lost my husband and partner a
couple of years ago and have been regrouping ever since.

Artisan goat cheese farmsteads are springing up everywhere. Don't even
consider it unless you are willing to work every waking minute and have a
good relationship with your health department. It's not impossible to
succeed, but it's damned hard. The most successful operations do not use
outside labor and are small and run with the greatest attention to
management possible. If you get serious about doing this, I will look up my
late husband's explanation of why you are out of your effing mind (and he
loved the work).

<< The sounds of the coyotes is ominous. Are you out west??>>

For people in Boston or New York City, I might be considered to be out West.
Actually, I'm in central Illinois, about 200 miles south of Chicago and 100
miles northwest of St. Louis. First came the deer, then came the coyotes. I
suppose we should be grateful that the coyotes must get some fawns each
year. On days when I go into Springfield early in the morning (before the
state truck picks up road kill) I generally see 3 or 4 dead deer.

Marie



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Anyone on the list know if the charging characteristics of Sealed Lead Acid 
Batteries are different from Flooded Lead Acid Batteries?

I am building an electric power assist bicycle that will be using 3 SLA 
batteries in series for 36 VOlts.  I would like to charge them directly off 
the trailer in a 12V configuration.  A switch to change the batteries from 
series 36V to parallel 12V and add stub off the house batteries is 
easy.  The question is what about the charging curves.  If the are the same 
then I can hook up and charge.  If not I will have to make a circuit to put 
between them or put up with the less than 50% efficiency of an inverter and 
the 36V charger.

Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up
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