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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Oct 23, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Roy Morgan wrote:

> 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.

Keep writing. We can't find anything to criticize so far.