Lee Love on sat 14 jun 08
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Lili Krakowski
wrote:
> Heaven knows I try to stay calm and rational. But then I read or hear
> stories ideas and my spine freezes, my mind boggles, etc.
>
Here is one for you! Haha!
I was having an algae problem in the three bowls (four, counting
the bird bath), I have outside for my Akita Kintaro. Recalling
the article about the hazards of drinking water in India, when people
switched from copper and brass water pots to plastic, I did Grandma's
old trick of putting a penny in the flower vase to keep it clean. I
put 3 pennies in 2 of the bowls and the birdbath and I left one bowl
as it was. Sure enough, the algae came back in the penni-less bowl
but not in the other three containers with pennies in them.
There are proven problems related to drinking algae water and I
am happy to find this solution works.
Made me realize that a copper liner glazes might be ideal for
inside flower vases. I will test next firing. I am guessing a
copper glaze releases far less copper than copper pennies do.
--
Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is
rounded with a sleep." --PROSPERO Tempest Shakespeare
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