You're the next Bill Nye!
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  From: Met History 
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  Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 08:49
  Subject: [BP] seeks its own level



  I finally got the siphon working under the Christmas tree.  I have always hated having to frequently monitor refill the teeny little reservoir at the bottom - especially because I have always imagined that, if the tree "goes dry" even for a few minutes, air bubbles will enter the capillaries of the tree trunk, and give the tree "the bends", so to speak.

  At any rate, I rigged up a large flat bucket - perhaps 20 times the size of the tree reservoir, which holds about a pint of water - and laid in an old articulated-metal shower-sprayer hose between the two (plastic or rubber flops around too much).   

  I got the water levels about equal - too much in the bucket and the tree reservoir overflows; too little and the bucket exhausts the tree reservoir - and now I feel like I really got something done.  

  Let's put the $$  back in Christmas,

  Christopher