[TheForge] Re: MaiL

[Mike Spencer]

Yo Jim --

> Did anybody get any mail from The Forge today because I didn't. 

Nor did I.  For my part, I'm trying to cope with the terrible shock of
having a real winter-type snow storm in November.  One of our best
kept secrets is that Nova Scotia usually has a cool, often frosty
but generally pleasant autumn through to early December.  Not this
year.

Five inches or so of very wet snow, broken trees, 100,000 people in NS
without power and a freeze the following night.  And I don't have any
heat at all in my new shop yet.  Well, except the forge, which is now
installed with a stainless steel smokebox and 13" flue.  Draws real
good.  Got the stainless sheet cheap at a junk yard and fabbed the
whole thing myself except for a pipe section and weather/hanger kit to
go through the roof.

Well, with wood heat and a hand pump for water, the storm outages
don't much bother me except for loss of power to the freezer.
Reminds me: Gotta do a fall shakedown on the emergency generator.

There ya go! :-)

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
                                 
mspencer@tallships.ca            
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/