How It Used to Be

[smweaver]

Thanks for posting those photos. They brought back memories here too. I had two 1000 watt metal halide lamps in one of the bedrooms, and during the winter (they weren't needed in the summer) I'm guessing that night-flying pilots could use the light glowing from that room as a navigational landmark. I also had a lot of fried orchids, and tried to bring them back to health by lowering the pH of the water while using--although I didn't know this at the time--a faulty pH meter. So between providing the orchids with a miniature version of the Sahara Desert along with showers of acid rain, I'm a little ashamed to admit all of this now!