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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