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Something I should have mentioned.

If these are pans she is fond of using, you'll want to be VERY careful with them. Most people have calcium in their water. The amount varies wildly. If you let the pans go dry, you're going to have a layer of the stuff on the bottom of the pan that gets as hard as concrete. And believe me, it will slip your mind sooner or later; or one will dry up overnight because you forgot to fill it before you went to bed.
You might want to consider going to a Goodwill or some other type of thrift store and picking a couple cheap pots. The ones I use were part of a 50 cent, auction box lot.

What kind of heat do you have?

We have heated exclusively with wood for 9 years now. Early on, I never gave humidity a thought until I picked up a weather station at an auction. I quickly discovered just how dry it was in the house. Like you, I was in the 30-35% area but I was too cheap to spend money on an electric humidifier.

We use a fireplace insert most of the time but when we have long spells of sub-freezing temps, which we've had for 6 weeks now, it can't keep up so we fire up a small box stove in the back room. I use the old tried and true method of a pot of water on each stove. They evaporate around 3 gallons a day into the air. That raises the humidity to between 45-48% in a 1200sf house. I just can't seem to reach that 50% mark.

I don't know if any of this helps you. If you use oil or gas fired hot air, probably not. If you have a hot water boiler with radiators, you could put a pot of water on each one and it should raise your moisture level to more acceptable levels.

We get winters like that ever 10-12 years. Last one was '07-'08 so I guess we're due soon.

13F right now. We're on the northern edge of Zurf's storm. Might see 2"

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Then I'll move to the hunting side of outdoor recreation.

9 rifles, 6 shotguns and 5 handguns and 8 bows.

One shotgun is a 12ga, 1918 Winchester 97 and one of the rifles is a WWII German Mauser in 8mm.

If you don't see one you like in that collection, you can go for this one.

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/40456095 … show-clips

Agreed.

I got my first 12 string in, I believe it was '87. For the next 2 years that's all I played when I wasn't touring.  I could never bring myself to taking it on the road.

I just pulled it out a few weeks ago when I decided to sell a few guitars. I was evaluating which ones I was going to keep. Just couldn't bear to part with my first 12er. Being 25 years since I last played it, I had forgotten how much difference there is. I have some work to do.

Do what you need to do. We aren't going anywhere.

Best wishes to you both.

Looks great. Hoping to hear it in the not to distant future.

Have they started jockeying for first chair yet?

With so many b***hin' at you mods lately, I thought I would try to inject a little ray of sunshine into your day.

Pics or it didn't happen!

Well that was interesting. Never heard that before.