sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015)
Starbucks etc. is too expensive, besides there are none in corn country. Some years ago we got a stoplight instead of the four way stop signs and us locals still refer it to 'the four way stop'.
I justify spending less on coffee and more on fountain pens. Besides, a caffene fix doesn't have to cost a lot of money in order for me to function.
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sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015)
Ditto.
The water is limestone well water with an ultraviolet light for killing microbes. The light failed for a year when we didn't know it; we all lived and grew stronger. The taste is great, and all other waters (stream, well, city or bottled) are judged against it. And it even cleans pens!
Fred
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sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015)
I have just drunk some! Water straight from the tap; to steal a line from a favourite song, "been drinking it all my life and I ain't dead yet" (same more or less, goes for the cigs actually).
My pens are lucky; they get cleaned in the kitchen in the same excellent water that I drink!
Cob
Crazyorange (August 7th, 2015), oldstoat (January 10th, 2016), sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015)
I grew up drinking hard old well water, minerals add some taste ever had Dasani? Thought IN water is not nearly as hard and limestone-y as KS. So I am understanding we increased our immunity as well then? Great! What would I have thought when I was a young adult if someone had told me the country would be buying bottles of water and tea to drink. Mom had that at home for almost free.
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Hawk (August 5th, 2015)
Sending Hawk a Death Wish coffee sample as a tuck-in....
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Hawk (August 7th, 2015), sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015)
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sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015)
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
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Lady Onogaro (August 8th, 2015), sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015), VertOlive (August 8th, 2015)
Bewley's Irish Breakfast tea. One of the worlds best teas. VertOlive needs to take a look at Kick Ass or 454 HP. https://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/store/coffee
sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015), VertOlive (January 9th, 2016)
To clean my pens? Nah, I go to the bathroom to do that, even though maybe I should have some water for pen cleaning.
But for drinking, there's usually a mug of tea or coffee and/or a pint glass of unsweetened iced tea or flavoured water. But at least I have never accidentally drank the cleaning water, so that's good.
sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015)
Found that baby food jars make excellent water containers and nib soaking containers. So we get a jar, my dog loves the baby food, and I keep the jar.
Sailor Kenshin (August 16th, 2015), sharmon202 (August 17th, 2015)
If I am sitting at my desk in my home office I usually have a cup of green tea with me ( usually Sencha ). Never clean my pens at my desk but I have a little round container ( about 2" in diameter ) with a lid that has a piece of wet sponge in it for those occasional hard starting pens or to wipe a nib on.
David
distracted_mom (March 11th, 2016)
I keep a 1 - oz. Nalgene jar with distilled water on my desk. It is for rinsing dip pens and for grinding sumi ink.
I use my fountain pens enough that cleaning is not necessary.
I never did, but not I am.
I have an old ink well that I fill with water, to dip the tip of the nib of a pen where the ink does not flow. The ink dried up in the nib/feed, and the dip liquifies the ink and gets the ink to flow, and I can write. This happens with pens that I leave too long between writing with them.
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scrivelry (March 9th, 2016)
Tell me more of this tea...
The only thing you might think about is that RO water isn't quite a pH of 7 so there can be issues with metal parts becoming corroded. At work we checked the mohs of the water and had all pvc piping for the process pipe.
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