Comments on: Elemental http://www.farrfeed.com/2007/10/24/elemental/ John Hamilton Farr's Living Planet Mystery Tales from Taos, New Mexico Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:57:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John H. Farr http://www.farrfeed.com/2007/10/24/elemental/comment-page-1/#comment-125 John H. Farr Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:40:17 +0000 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2007/10/24/elemental/#comment-125 Actually, that wood fire doesn't contribute much to global warming. Trees like the wood I burn are still growing, absorbing and trapping CO2. It's a net wash. If I were burning oil, it would be a different story. Travis, a great deal of New Mexico is warm and toasty, mostly from ABQ south. Up here in the north at 7,000 feet, things are very different. The cold snap we just had has let up, however. Today we'll see a high of around 70 and a low around 30. That's how it usually is, pretty much during all seasons too, with a temperature swing of around 40 degrees every day. Even after 90 degree summer days (rare!), it gets down into the 50s and high 40s at night. We sleep under a down comforter 12 months of the year. During the winter it's much colder, obviously, but with the intense sunshine, you can tolerate morning temps in the teens with surprisingly little fuss. Actually, that wood fire doesn’t contribute much to global warming. Trees like the wood I burn are still growing, absorbing and trapping CO2. It’s a net wash. If I were burning oil, it would be a different story.

Travis, a great deal of New Mexico is warm and toasty, mostly from ABQ south. Up here in the north at 7,000 feet, things are very different. The cold snap we just had has let up, however. Today we’ll see a high of around 70 and a low around 30. That’s how it usually is, pretty much during all seasons too, with a temperature swing of around 40 degrees every day.

Even after 90 degree summer days (rare!), it gets down into the 50s and high 40s at night. We sleep under a down comforter 12 months of the year. During the winter it’s much colder, obviously, but with the intense sunshine, you can tolerate morning temps in the teens with surprisingly little fuss.

]]> By: K.J. Webb http://www.farrfeed.com/2007/10/24/elemental/comment-page-1/#comment-124 K.J. Webb Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:26:35 +0000 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2007/10/24/elemental/#comment-124 Fires in almost any form - including the kind that burn down buildings and forests - feel good for the soul (perhaps less so if it's one's own or the public acreage undergoing incineration). Even there in San Diego right now, my niece tells me there's a real sense of exhilaration. Maybe our nasty species needs calamity to unlock its frozen juices and help it get excited about being alive. Smoke and flame in however small a container have just that trifling bit of danger that makes them heady substances at any time. A danger to combat a danger - darkness, loneliness, rawness. We had a fire going on Padre Island back summer of '63. It helped us talk ourselves into having the guts to launch into the great world of adult miseries and triumphs that lay somewhere beyond the flames. Anyhow, Johannes, your own contribution to global warming looks right cozy. Be nice to stand vigil around it with you some tempest-tossed evening, knock back a few shots of Tequila and let things rip. Fires in almost any form – including the kind that burn down buildings and forests – feel good for the soul (perhaps less so if it’s one’s own or the public acreage undergoing incineration). Even there in San Diego right now, my niece tells me there’s a real sense of exhilaration. Maybe our nasty species needs calamity to unlock its frozen juices and help it get excited about being alive. Smoke and flame in however small a container have just that trifling bit of danger that makes them heady substances at any time. A danger to combat a danger – darkness, loneliness, rawness. We had a fire going on Padre Island back summer of ’63. It helped us talk ourselves into having the guts to launch into the great world of adult miseries and triumphs that lay somewhere beyond the flames.

Anyhow, Johannes, your own contribution to global warming looks right cozy. Be nice to stand vigil around it with you some tempest-tossed evening, knock back a few shots of Tequila and let things rip.

]]> By: Travis Stark http://www.farrfeed.com/2007/10/24/elemental/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Travis Stark Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:11:39 +0000 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2007/10/24/elemental/#comment-123 Why is it that I don't think of New Mexico as cold? Here in the northeast it's downright balmy. About 54 at the moment, but flurting with upper 60's every day for the last few. People here complaining that global warming is messin' with the foliage color (just not cold 'nuf!), and them leaf peepers is big bidness don't ya know. I was complaining to the wife the other day that it's cold here roughly 5 months of the year, November through March. She responded, "Ah yes, but that means it's nice out for 7!" Right there is why I love her. If we hadn't met I'd probably be dead or living in a cave. Travis <a href="http://accidentalwisdom.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Accidental Wisdom</a> Why is it that I don’t think of New Mexico as cold? Here in the northeast it’s downright balmy. About 54 at the moment, but flurting with upper 60′s every day for the last few. People here complaining that global warming is messin’ with the foliage color (just not cold ‘nuf!), and them leaf peepers is big bidness don’t ya know.

I was complaining to the wife the other day that it’s cold here roughly 5 months of the year, November through March. She responded, “Ah yes, but that means it’s nice out for 7!” Right there is why I love her. If we hadn’t met I’d probably be dead or living in a cave.

Travis
Accidental Wisdom

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