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Happy Mothers Day!

Commentary © 2008  Richard Chandler & Bonnett Chandler

A Mothers Day Thought from from Prairie Home Companion creator and host Garrison Keillor... “I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.” - Garrison Keillor (1942- ) ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~ .		. Barbara Bush Barbara Bush is the wife of the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush and mother to the current President, George W. Bush. She is perhaps best known for her work in advocating literacy. Here are three quotes by Barbara Bush: “And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!” - Barbara Bush (1925- )   “Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.” - Barbara Bush (1925- )   “I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.” - Barbara Bush (1925- )   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~
~   ~   ~   ~   ~ Bonnett & Richard’s Solar Project – How We Lowered Our Carbon Impact Along with Our Utility Bill In a nutshell, we wanted to do something more. While our florescent light bulbs were in place throughout our entire house and we just finished converting our outdoor light fixtures to accommodate the new fluorescent floodlights, we wanted to do more… something more dramatic. The idea of preheating the water with the sun before it entered our natural gas hot water heater had been percolating for sometime. It seemed simple enough… find an inexpensive way to route the water out of the house and into some kind of solar collector, and then back into the house a whole lot hotter than it left. Have it leave the house just before entering the hot water heater and then back in and directly into the gas hot water heater at a nice hot temperature. While this type of solar heater works well for the months that don't get below freezing temperature, it can’t be used in the colder seasons, so any system we constructed would have to allow us to easily switch it back to a direct route into the gas hot water heater as well as to drain the water out of the collector. Even for us Minnesotans, limited as we are to only 7 months when water doesn’t freeze, it seemed to us that if the system was easy to build and install, and didn’t cost us too much, it would pay back the cost of it in a few years and give us some savings from then on. In the next entry, to follow soon, we will describe the project for you.

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