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Strategic shadow

[Today’s run: 3 miles with the dog]

We bought our trees for some strategic shade.

The west side of the house gets tremendously hot in the late afternoons in the summer.  And, that is where the air conditioning unit is installed.  So the poor box ends up trying to do an uphill heat transfer over a 50+ degree temp gradient.

We get the same effect on our front porch.  The remote reading thermometer there will show numbers like +118 in the late afternoons in the summer.

So I worked out where I thought the trees would do the most good and that is where we put them.

This picture was taken on a recent afternoon, after the fall equinox, so the shadow is a little north of what we need.  But as the tree grows and fills out it should do a pretty good job on the A/C box.  I think in a couple of years these trees will have paid off their purchase price in saved electricity.