The leaves are really coming down. Suddenly the bareness is starting to show and I'm more easily seeing how close it is to winter. Did I mention it was breezy and 82 degrees today? I'm working on drying another batch of apples. I figured out that the cost is about 17 cents of electricity: 125 watts for 1 hour = 125; divide 125 by 1000(kilowatts) and you get 0.125-that's kilowatt hours of electricity used each hour. Multiply the .125 by cost per kilowatt[I used 9 cents(.09), but I'm not sure what we pay here in midwest-maybe less even] and you get .01125- that's .01125 dollars or 1.125 cents. So 1.125 cents for each hour X 15 hours =16.875 cents for a 15 hour run.

Sometimes one just wants to load the shotgun and let a paint can have it...maybe a couple of times: