The joys of the “heat pump” in a cold snap…
AccuWeather says lunch time temperature is 12° outside, after dropping to zero overnight.
Thermostat set at 63
Living room thermometer reads 57
(Dressing in layers.)
Adding a third humidifier has brought the living room relative humidity up to 36% after an overnight drop to 30.
Oops, temperature rose to 58 while I wasn’t looking and humidity gauge dropped to 32 again.
Next, replenishing the damp-sponge style humidifiers inside all of the musical instrument cases… except for the two instruments that are made of metal, mostly.
Good wood deserves more moisture. Skin, too.
Maybe I should just put all of the instruments in an upstairs closet with a bucket of water and a circulating fan. And climb in next to them in my down sleeping bag until the temperature is back in the 40s.
mild-mannered reporter who found computers & the Web in grad school in the 1980s (Wesleyan) and '90s (UNC); taught journalism, media studies, Web production; retired to write, make music, photograph sunsets & walks in the woods.
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