Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Hard Water

Aah, hard water - tastes great, makes you feel squeeky clean after a shower, it is the stuff manly men are made of.  The curmudgeon, ever trying to convince myself that I am one, insists on hard water.  Also, since a water softener costs a lot of money and entails toting around 50-pound bags of salt, the call I made to stay with hard water was an easy one.


But, there is a downside...well, a few downsides.  Lime and calcium deposits coat the inside of pipes (in a 70 year old house, like cholesterol in a 70 year old body, this is not necessarily a good thing), cling to faucets, make rings and other icky stains in toilets, etch clear glass shower stalls...all manner of evidence of being a stoic manly man.


And the lawn and gardens love it.  Who am I to argue with Mother Nature?

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