Limes Should Be Yellow Not Green

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NyBoy,

I didn't have a photo but there was an old drawing in a book. I no longer know what book. These days, there are quite a few historical drawings online and I spent about 20 minutes searching and trying to remember what and where that drawing was. I was unsuccessful. It wasn't very attractive but it showed in fairly good detail how a coal furnace could be vented through flues running mostly horizontal within a brick wall. I guess that there doors at the ends of that north wall for cleaning out the soot. By the time the smoke made out through the chimney at the top of the wall, the smoke must have been not much more than room temperature.

Here is what I found and it is older (1737) than what I believe I was looking at 20 years ago. The flues are simpler, probably larger and they run fewer times, horizontally through the wall. The "forcing-frame" is also a little crude but it gives you an idea how these were built.

Steve

Dutch forcing-frame.JPG
you can click on the picture to see it more closely. there are actually 4 drawings of parts of the same building, from almost 300 years ago. edit, again: ya know! there are actually 6 drawings there! makes it a little confusing.
 
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My Bearss limes have turned yellow when I've left them on the tree to long. But usually they are used before that time. The yellow is not like a lemon though, more like a yellowish green.

Mary
 

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Still dropping a leaf now and then. :( There aren't too many more it can lose before it's completely nekkid!

Kid#1 stopped by last week and noticed it on the end table under a pinkish glow.
'is that a grow light?'
Yep.
'doesn't seem to be working too good'.
Haha. :rolleyes:
 
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