The temperature outside was -5 when I got up yesterday morning and a cool 59 degrees in the house. The fire in the wood stove had died hours earlier. But the new day dawned with a cloudless sky. As an experiment, I decided against lighting a new fire in the stove in order to see […]
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The previous owners of our home, who built the house, said they weren’t trying so much to build a solar structure as to capture the views looking toward Vermont. We’ve discovered that these windows, facing south-by-southeast, provide all the daytime heat we need when the sun is shining. In fact, our comfort inside the house […]
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Ever since we started heating with a wood stove, we’ve become acutely aware of what the weather’s doing, and especially what’s happening with the sun. With a bank of windows on the south side of our house, we can go the entire day without burning any wood at all if the sun is shining, even […]
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