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Pitkäkoski, Finland

Jarmo Juntunen

Well-known member
Hi guys! I hope everyone's fine despite the horrible year of '20! I myself have been absent from this forum and many others due to a work assignment that took me abroad for a while. So, without further ado, here's one from yesterday. I should be colder up here this time of the year, but at least there is some snow.


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James Lemon

Well-known member
You folks make good winter tires !! Where did the color come from in the water stream is it the lighting?
 

Jarmo Juntunen

Well-known member
You folks make good winter tires !! Where did the color come from in the water stream is it the lighting?
Hi James, good to hear from you! I hope you and your close ones are well. Well, we better make them good with our climate, right :)? That brownish colour is very typical for waters in Finland. It`s humus, a mixture of woodland residues and peat, quite discusting looking but harmless. An hour later I used that same water for coffee:

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James Lemon

Well-known member
Hi James, good to hear from you! I hope you and your close ones are well. Well, we better make them good with our climate, right :)? That brownish colour is very typical for waters in Finland. It`s humus, a mixture of woodland residues and peat, quite discusting looking but harmless. An hour later I used that same water for coffee:

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This is a very interesting coffee mug must work for hot chocolate too!
 

Jarmo Juntunen

Well-known member
I believe it`s called a birch burl. It is essencially a deformation on a tree trunk, but the ones in a birch are considered to have some value. They are used widely in Nordic handicraft to make very pricy artefacts. Here`s what the Great Internet`s got to say about it:
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I was thinking, “How useful to have Nordic cups one can keep hot like that!”

A silicon-based tree could do that!

Asher
 
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