I made my first bread warmer and covered the inside with pieces of brown paper bags, and also the cover, then brushed on varnish to seal. Lillie, here we go again, I, too, made the rice bag and then made a square to cover the bag and inside. The outside I did in ivy and cut around the ivy BUT I noticed I got offline and there was a gap between the bottom and top so I used polymer clay and made ivy to cover the gap and continued the ivy up and onto the top where I used 4 pieces of the ivy pieces for the handle and then painted the ivy pieces. I then painted ivy on the square inside so that it matched. I used a bandana from Michaels for all the pieces; cut into fourths gave me enough for the bag and square. As we mentioned before, I've got the Harbor Freight tools, too. I also have a proxxon which I use for my cutting. I do love having the drill and the mini sander for a lot of my smaller stuff like jewelry. It's well worth the $25.00 for all three pieces. Sandra

10 years ago, I really wanted the water/ice dispenser so we got it. I will never get another one. What a big mistake. There was alays ice dropped on the hardwood floor. It was hard for me to get the ice without having some drop on the floor. With 2 kids, these are type of things that are hard to "teach" well enough to avoid the problem every single time. It actually died once and had it repaired. Then it died again with the flap in the open position. We disconnected dispenser and closed the flap so the air would not get into the freezer all the time. I think a problem with these is that everytime you use it, it lets in room air into the freezer compartment. This causes a large amount of humidity (it has to do with the relative humidity difference between room temperature and freezer compartment) and the water freezes out and causes freezer burn to the food. It's like briefly opening and closing the freezer door everytime you use the ice dispenser. Many people like them very much but not for me.

dadoes I think thats what I'll do, maybe just incase for now on REALLY cold nights I'll just use space heaters [I have 5 all different types that work fine], plus heat pumps REALLY don't work all that well in environments below like 20F-30F anyways, but I'll tell you anything above that it works great. I also have Central Natural Gas Heating however gas is a bit pricey not that bad but I mean in the winter it may cost nearly $100 for gas, so I figure setting the Central Heat for like 65 or something so it don't get to cold and then using the heat pump or space heater to keep it comfy [I know if I use more than 1 space heater at a time it'll run the bill up more than gas for the whole house so I only run 1 at a time]. And this heat pump if its say 45 Degrees will work real well and quick. So I think I'll just take your suggestion and run it with 2 hoses I doubt it will fail.

How many plants are you planning on putting out. If it is not a whole lot of them I would suggest the ones that are the stand up ones. They cost about $20 or so. They work to protect things in a light freeze. If it super cold then bring them in for the couple of days. My thing is it gets cold here at night early on. So I have a low tunnel. Most of my annual flowers survived in it till the temp stayed below freezing for 2 days. When the time comes for me to put the seedlings outside in the low tunnel they will be outside by day, and inside at night. If temps are expected to go below the mid 20's I will bring them inside till it warms back up. Oh and with the smaller shelf type ones you can keep things warmer with a single heat lamp running at night.