From: gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com   
      
   Jasen Betts wrote on 1/12/2018 5:28 PM:   
   > On 2018-01-12, rickman  wrote:   
   >> terra wrote on 1/12/2018 3:36 PM:   
   >>> On 01/11/2018 09:32 PM, Jasen Betts wrote:   
   >>>> As is seasonally traditional, we recently had a dying tree in our house   
   >>>> the tree had  no roots, the base of the trunk sat in a vesel of water,   
   >>>> and if the water is not kept topped up the tree dies before the end of   
   >>>> festivities.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So I decided to instrument the plastic vessel to confirm water level,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> but am I doing anything dumb there?   
   >>>   
   >>> All of it.   
   >>> I just watched Yule Log on TV. Pretty good.   
   >>   
   >> I'm not sure why a gadget is need to measure the water level.  A live, cut   
   >> tree needs to be topped off every day or even twice a day.  Just set an   
   >> alarm...   
   >   
   > I'd rather do it at my convenience, and I'm learning stuff, and   
   > justifying the pile of junk.   
      
   Do what at your convenience?  Just add the water every day rather than when   
   an alarm goes off.  Isn't the tree going to use water at a pretty constant   
   rate?   
      
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