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[Homestead] The place smells like apples.

From: Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>
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Subject: [Homestead] The place smells like apples.
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:43:58 -0400

As a neighborly gesture, the folks who hayed our fields brought some dried apples. YUMMY! Seems he has a dehydrator from Bass Pro Shops.

We got one today (the $40 one) and it's drying apples as I type. Like many projects, this one is a nice-to-do and not an essential do-it-up- all-the-way thing. So instead of getting the $190 one touted as the best, we decided to start modestly. This thing uses some 375 watts of electricity - about four kilowatt hours per batch. (60 cents or so?) In the process it adds the heat to the house. The expensive job uses a kilowatt.

The apples I'm using are free - they grow here.

Roy

Roy Morgan
k1lky AT earthlink.net
529 Cobb St.
Groton NY, 13073

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