Embarrassing Obsession confession.

[greenpassion]

I got up this morning around 9. After I fed my dogs, I got my reverse osmosis countertop system out, and proceeded to spend the next five and a half hours making 16 gallons of RO water for my humidifier, which I run and my living area with 30 some-odd plants 27 of which are phalaenopsis orchids. I have a gravity-fed well, and absolutely no water pressure, about 3 years ago I got a pump for the small countertop system. That said, it takes exactly 15 minutes to fill one gallon of water.(No pressure) I have hard water here, a lot of minerals and so I want to use RO water in this humidifier. This is my one day off from work. I think about the insanity of spending so many hours filling up these gallons of ro water, and I realized that most people would think I'm insane. But I want to keep the humidity here at least around 50%. I live in Vermont, and it's getting very dry and cold out. Out of 27 phals I have 14 now in Spike. In my seven years of growing I've never had it so good! Don't know if it will keep up though. March 6th of last year, I woke up with no water at all from my Wells, and I went until the end of May without water. So while I am making this RO water I'm looking at the runoff that is wasted and feeling a little ashamed of myself in a way. And I'm worried.... About the cold.... And the water lines.... but loving the spikes and buds!