Hi Cherryl, Well, this seems to be my day for making abbrupt and caustic comments, but shoot, why turn it off. I leave mine running too. Sometimes, if we're having an awful thunder storm I'll turn it off, but that's it. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT