Wow! This is awesome! I never expected this to be such a long thread on the name that plant forum. It's great. This is good information to know. Yeah, I pretty much dont buy anything from Lowe's or Wal-Mart if I dont feel like I'm getting a deal. The plant that started this thread (Moses in a Blanket) was on clearance for $2.00. I bought two of them. Most of the other stuff I get in the fall and winter because they're Palms and Tropicals. That stuff is dirt cheap then. Another thing I just hate is when they put a Majesty or any other palm that would be $10.00 from Oct-March in a large pot and charge $70.00 to the unsuspecting "brown thumb". Then a month later I come back and get one for 10 bucks. Lowe's has had A $40 Bird of Paradise thats all torn up and brown since June. I wont even go back to pick up that mess. I get all my bananas and stuff like that from a tiny little place called Spring Rise Horticulture Center here in south central PA. They have the same size Bird of Paradise (about 6ft tall) for $20 and it looks great. She has never charged me more than $22 for anything. The banana tree on the right in the above picture was $19.99. The dwarf banana tree on the porch was $22. The largest on the left with all the pups she gave me for free because I bought the other two there and she was just going to throw it away. My whole point is if you're going to the big box stores go in the fall/winter or just find you're own special little place. Lowe's, Wal-Mart, K-Mart etc. are designed to get you there not make you happy.

We adopted kitten sisters about 2 1/2 years ago. I knew that they were coming from a home where the owner worked with my daughter. I was told that they were 6-7 weeks old but later found out that they, actually, had been adopted by another co-worker but her other cat didn't like them so they were returned. They had stayed at the original home for another week before we took them. According to the vet they were just 6 weeks old when we got them so that meant that they were four weeks old when first adopted out and then five weeks old when returned to the owner and then six weeks when we got them. So much turmoil for such young babies! One of the sisters (Lucy) was friendly at first and now is rather aloof but will come for cuddles about twice a week. The other sister (Lola) comes daily but had the habit of always nursing on herself. When we first got the sisters Lola would try to nurse on Lucy but that only lasted about a month before she would have none of that. Lola will do this every time she is on a couch, chair or bed. I know it is a habit but we have not been able to break her of it. Believe me we have tried! If she was quiet about it that wouldn't be so bad but she is just noisy and wakes us up so she has to leave the bedroom. I feel badly because she would like to stay in our room but we wouldn't get any sleep. I hope that this behavior stops for you but there is no guarantee. Obviously, my kitten sisters were taken from Mom way too early and this has manifested itself with this behavior. Robyn

Whirlpool gas range-oven Model #WFG510SOAT2. Sometimes the electronic igniter on the oven fails to ignite the burner. When I start the oven, I can hear it spark but do not see it when the kitchen is dark. After some time, I found that the spark noise was coming from the broiler burner inside the oven at the top. That tells me that both igniters are receiving high voltage when trying to start the oven. The same with the stove top. All four igniters fire with only one gas valve opened. Cannot figure out why the stove igniter fires intermittently, while the broiler igniter fires every time. Tried making the spark gap smaller, but did not help.

Make sure you have covered angled vents (kind of like this https://www.amazon.com/Ventilaider-Deflector-Low-Profile-Non-Adjustable-Sidewalls/dp/B09CZL59WZ/ref=asc_df_B09CZL59WZ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=532423223930&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16860139863354245117&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016908&hvtargid=pla-1485715464394&psc=1) where it shoots the air across the floor instead of straight up in the air. It mixes with the cold air as it casually rises. The air will rise any ways, but you also want to have atleast and 1/8th to a 1/4 of an inch thick glass windows, and then tungsten oxide or pure silicon dioxide for storm windows, they're very strong, they can be thin and still very strong but they will cloud or freeze. You can also roll mylar plastic and glue it on the walls and plaster over it and then paint and it wont let any heat out, or in. If you don't want thick windows mylar works too well lol. Sometimes they don't suck fresh air in through the furnace and they try and recirculate it through the furnace to minimize heat loss or rise in the gas or electric bill. But less oxygen in the house lowers the furnace's flame's burning efficiency. And then no pollutants will get pushed out through the pressure relief vents. If there's no pressure relief vents it can be hard to open the main doors. In some other really large houses and I would just leave the furnace running because of having suction fans on for smoking or because of methane, carbon dioxide build up, other pollutants. And it would cool the house down and the furnace would stay on I almost just put a little heater on a vent sucking air in and a suction fan sucking air and smoke out. Smoking sucks if you cant light and take a few puffs where ever you're standing. But air purifiers do get rid of smoke. You may need air flow restrictors on your vents so that it allows pressure to build up in the duct at the vent and shoot the air down the longer ducts to the vents that are further from the plenum (place above or below the furnace where all the ducts intersect). Measure all the ducts from the plenum to the vent, and add the length together. Divide each duct's length into the total of all the duct's length's from the plenum. Say the total is 100 feet, one duct is 45 feet, one is 25 feet, one is 20 feet, and one is 10 feet. The shortest duct needs the most resistance to cause a pressure build up 10 ÷100 is .10 so it's 10%, subtract 10% from 100% you get 90%. You want 90% restriction on the vent. Say the vent is 40 square inches or you might want to put the restrictor on the duct. The duct is 20 square inches you want to only let 90 percent of that air through so you want to block it. You would only want 2 square inches or circular inches in total size of the hole or many holes if you want to drill a bunch of small ones in a metal, wood, or plastic plate. And you do this calculation for each duct and then you put the thermometer for the thermostat in the coldest part of the house. The furnace will run longer but it will be evenly heated, if you have hot spots or cold spots you may want to add more vents, You could do the same type of calculation if you want to add multiple vents to one duct. HVAC systems can get very sophisticated especially if we start trying to monitor humidity, pressure, drafts, oxygen levels, pollutants, and stuff like that. Furnaces almost became like computers, but there's a lot of methods or a different kind of engineering that isn't mechanical, or electrical. It's also possible to heat the duct without burning anything by having two magnets close together or moving back and forth. One of my old furnaces wasn't electrical or gas. I used two air hydraulic lifts (like the car lifts in garages) to spin something, one goes up and pushes the other one down and then it goes back up and pushes the other one down and it just keeps going on and on forever, unless it's switched off. Nothing was electronic besides tvs, computers, and telephones. Even light bulbs were just heated crystals and we didn't mind wicks being burned regularly, it was just the oil that sucked, it started as whale oil, but eventually they started using petroleum and everyone almost died of cancer. I use to make records out of pure carbon, I was standing by a pile of carbon from burning wood and some one yelled something to me and then I would hear the same thing again a little quieter, and I said why do you yell it at me and then say it again quietly really close by. He said I didn't and I said whatever. Eventually I fell down and I heard myself fall and complain. Record players werent electric at first anyways and they winded themselves back up and you just had to switch the rolls. They kind of forced this whole electricity everything thing on us, but electricity was more simple, but everything became motors, timers, belts, sensors and then eventually microchips, instead of gears and pulleys, and all these other methods.