MONDAY, JANUARY 30th, 2023 Good Morning! It looks like it will be another quiet morning here on Mt LeConte. The temperature here is 38 degrees. The low temperature last night was 30 degrees, so the snow has melted down to a depth of about two inches and is turning into slush. If you’re planning on getting out you should carry a raincoat as rain is predicted. Now that I’ve finished washing the breakfast dishes this might be a good day to wash lamp chimneys and refill the lamps with kerosene. When I was a boy growing up on the farm fuel for the lamps was called “coal oil “—now it is “kerosene “. Now I’m wondering what changed? And why? And when? Here on the mountain I have plenty of time to ponder important matters such as this! Well—I suppose that it’s time for me to get to work and take care of the lamps! I hope that you have a marvelous Monday! HAPPY TRAILS!! WILDCAT/Bert 
2 Comments
Paul M Clark
1/31/2023 11:09:31 am
You were wondering - The difference between kerosene oil and coal oil is the source from which the fuels are derived. Kerosene is refined and produced from liquid petroleum, while coal oil is extracted from a type of bituminous coal known as cannel coal.
william rush
2/2/2023 07:49:03 am
very true on kerosene-prior to using kerosene, whale oil was used in the lamps. I remember my Grandparents talking about this-I still have some of their lamps. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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