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Clark, try getting a warm mist vaporizer and letting it steam near the plant. I've had better success with that than just misting. The mist evaporates in a very short time. Another thing I have done is plastic wrap (even Saran Wrap) over it along with the vaporizer. With smaller plants you can put them into an aquarium but this plant is so big. A challenge!
This is OK if your house is warm and well lit. If it's dim and grim cut back on the water, way back. A grow light is indicated here. Add some incandescent bulbs as well to the area to provide red light.
I was curious about what you call winter weather. It didn't seem bone-chilling cold, just miserable. The temperature here was about twenty degrees higher, low fifties. However, the forecast from Saturday into next week is for highs in the low thirties, far more seasonal for us.
In other news a stray neighborhood cat - an orange female - has been hanging around. She's very friendly and likes to be petted. Now I find myself buying cat food and feeding her on the porch. Can't let her in because Professor Robert is very allergic to cat dander. I suspect she's owned by a neighbor because she looks very healthy, clean and well fed - which begs the question: who would let their cat outside to roam around the streets of a big city with cars, buses, trolleys, etc.?
Arrrggghhh! Don't get me started on people who are irresponsible pet owners.
Several years ago, my former next door neighbors went away on a snowy weekend and left their poor cat outside during their absence. I looked outside one morning, and the poor thing was lying on a chaise lounge on my porch with snow on its back. My kids begged me to let it into the house, but I couldn't...I had two other (indoor) cats at the time. So I dug out a large, clean, hooded litter box that I was not using...put a blanket inside and put it out on the porch for the cat.
I wound up leaving the litter box "house" out on the porch for the rest of the winter for the cat to use when it visited my porch.
Our Nor'easter has passed, finally. I can still hear the wind although it's reduced to a lower howl.
No houses slid into the sea but roads are flooded and I hear that there are power outages.
Wondering what sunshine looks like though. It's been dark and rainy forever it seems.
Arrrggghhh! Don't get me started on people who are irresponsible pet owners.
Several years ago, my former next door neighbors went away on a snowy weekend and left their poor cat outside during their absence. I looked outside one morning, and the poor thing was lying on a chaise lounge on my porch with snow on its back. My kids begged me to let it into the house, but I couldn't...I had two other (indoor) cats at the time. So I dug out a large, clean, hooded litter box that I was not using...put a blanket inside and put it out on the porch for the cat.
I wound up leaving the litter box "house" out on the porch for the rest of the winter for the cat to use when it visited my porch.
I agree completely. When I moved into my last house my cat was a feral living under the porch, but he almost certainly had been a house cat. People who do this to animals are scum.
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Our Nor'easter has passed, finally. I can still hear the wind although it's reduced to a lower howl.
No houses slid into the sea but roads are flooded and I hear that there are power outages.
Wondering what sunshine looks like though. It's been dark and rainy forever it seems.
Cape Cod in the winter is great. I was there once in the wind and the snow. You live in a very special place.
I agree completely. When I moved into my last house my cat was a feral living under the porch, but he almost certainly had been a house cat. People who do this to animals are scum.
Cape Cod in the winter is great. I was there once in the wind and the snow. You live in a very special place.
Thank you. I don't live on the Cape, although sometimes I wish I did. I live on the North Shore up near New Hampshire. It's desolate here right now with the ocean waves crashing and cold wind blowing in. I go to the Cape in the spring or the fall because, as you say, it is special.
Whew, power came on at four yesterday, internet and phone this morning. We had about fourteen inches total snow. Lucky me the oil man decided to deliver yesterday instead of Friday.
Bless my neighbor, he is coming over with his big Caterpillar front end loader to plow us out.
Here's to being warm and dry, y'all! That beach scene sounds beautiful, in_ne.
Our generator is not generating like she used to. It won't power the boiler so I was running the bathroom heat fan just to keep it at sixty two.
DH was looking at generators when he realized we would have to drive it up top and slide the giant box down the stone steps to the back porch. So that plan is on hold. I could do it if I had to, though.
Whew, power came on at four yesterday, internet and phone this morning. We had about fourteen inches total snow. Lucky me the oil man decided to deliver yesterday instead of Friday.
Bless my neighbor, he is coming over with his big Caterpillar front end loader to plow us out.
Here's to being warm and dry, y'all! That beach scene sounds beautiful, in_ne.
Our generator is not generating like she used to. It won't power the boiler so I was running the bathroom heat fan just to keep it at sixty two.
DH was looking at generators when he realized we would have to drive it up top and slide the giant box down the stone steps to the back porch. So that plan is on hold. I could do it if I had to, though.
Thank goodness for helpful neighbors in times like this. You are very lucky. Poor Vermont. Over 30,000 without power--and it is COLD, freezing cold with no power. Some of us are already sick of winter--thoughts of heading south for a while or for a long while, like permanently.
Thank goodness for helpful neighbors in times like this. You are very lucky. Poor Vermont. Over 30,000 without power--and it is COLD, freezing cold with no power. Some of us are already sick of winter--thoughts of heading south for a while or for a long while, like permanently.
I would assume that people who live in Vermont and other places with similar climates are generally prepared for such events. They probably have a wood stove for back-up and/or a generator. I know that doesn't make the outages pleasant or without considerable inconvenience, but it makes them survivable without terrible suffering.
There is no need for a 'shelter' here in our small town, although I'm sure if someone needed help they could go to the firehouse for warmth and a cup of coffee.
The learning curve is a faily quick one. I remember our first generator, it was about the size of a small air conditioner. It would run a TV and the fridge.
Wanting more than basic comfort we sprung for a 6500 watt one on wheels with a fuel tank large enough to run twelve hours. It would run half the electrical panel and also the barn. So we had everything, all the computers, TV's, fridge, well pump and furnace.
The jaunt into town was madness today. It's really the first day since Tuesday where you could get around easily, and people were out in droves.
White Chrisstmas is on tonight on AMC if you need a Christmas movie fix.
I feel for those that got the snow. Crossed fingers for us in Minnesota. So far there have been only a couple of bad days.
Escort, it's like everything else in life. You feel you are prepared but sometimes Mother Nature reminds us that she is the boss and we are unprepared. Life happens.
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So that plan is on hold. I could do it if I had to, though.