Re: Another OT

Heh, heh, Melody, I have a few floor registers, too and that's what I
do, only I snag my roasting pans for the job.  Not exactly
decorative;-)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Melody <mhobertm@excite.com>
> 
> re: humidity in winter: I grew up in a very old house, the kind
that had
> the large ornate cast iron register grills in the floor and every
winter
> my grandmother had a collection of bowls she would sit down inside
the
> registers and each day as she went around watering her hundreds of
house
> plants, she would fill the bowls with water, too. Worked a charm to
keep
> the whole house humidified. I wish one could still get registers
like
> that today instead of these dinky things in the baseboards of the
> walls...
> 
> 
> 
> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> 
> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
> --Albert Einstein
> 
>  --- On Fri 11/21, Marge Talt < mtalt@hort.net > wrote:
> From: Marge Talt [mailto: mtalt@hort.net]
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:18:50 -0500
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Another OT
> 
> > From: Theresa <tchessie@comcast.net><br>> Marge-<br>> <br>> One
of the
> $35 warm or cool mist humidifiers from Target does<br>wonders.
I<br>>
> have one running in my bedroom constantly during the winter
season<br>as
> long<br>> as the heater is on. Make it MUCH more comfortable to
sleep
> and<br>breathe.<br>----------<br><br>I've actually got 2 of those,
but
> our water is so hard it gunks them<br>up and trying to clean them
is
> such a pain and I never seem to get<br>them right. I got them some
time
> ago to try to humidify plants;<br>worked for a season and then gunk
set
> in...<br><br>We don't run heat much in our bedroom, so it doesn't
get as
> dry in<br>there, but the rest of the house sure does - talk about
> static<br>electricity!<br><br>Marge Talt, zone 7
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