Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / December 2003

I get Stihl's e-mail newsletter. The latest edition arrived today.  In
it they address winter storage of saws, etc. I was bored, so I read
it.  Saw a statement that surprised me.  Does anyone know why they
say:

My 15 year old son suggested I watch the movie "Bowling for Columbine".
He's a thinker, my son.  He said that the movie had a profound impact on him
and he wanted me to watch it, so I did.
It was thought provoking.

Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!
Walmart has gotten too big and it uses its power to exert over us. No
one can blame Wal-Mart for being abusive afterall, it's us, the
consumers, who gave the power to them! We are irresponsible and greedy

anyone have any info about this, heard it mentioned in a show on the
science channel, did a google search.
sounds interesting, potential uses, but seems to be a "weed" like Kudzu
in many respects.

getting in the garden planning mode....Anyone grown siberian pea?
Anyone actually eaten the beans/pods/flowers?  Recipes?
If picked early enough, can it pass for a shell pea or snap pea?  Or
is it more like a black-eyed pea?

It is said that if it was easy, somebody would already be doing it.......
Anyone made Walnut or Hickory syrups?  Bitter?  Need to be cut with corn syrup?
I suppose the trees would be tapped similarly to maples?  
Another one of those "finds" I come up with poking around on the web!

My husband's birthday is right after Christmas.  He is the most impossible
person to shop for.  He has everything.  He is always appreciative of gifts,
but then he'll never use/wear them.
I was thinking of getting him one of those weather station things, but I

My husband is telling me the pigs have to go in the basement (NOT!).  It's a
big basement with lots of hidey-holes.  What if a possum or something is
down there?  What if it eats my babies???  No way.  They are staying in the
kitchen for now.

ok, now I am wondering if my pole barn is adequately ventilated...?
The soffits, running East to West, are open, being covered with
expanded metal mesh.  There is some air movement through the
guillotine dogdoor fittings.  The gable appears to be closed.

Sent to me by a cousin in Philadelphia who received it
from his cousin in Atlanta.
Situational Issue:
You're walking down a deserted street with your wife

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2003/120503.asp
PRESIDENT BUSH CONGRATULATES NASCAR CHAMP CLETUS DICKEY ON
HIS STUNNING VICTORY IN THAT DRIVING AROUND IN CIRCLES THING
THE YACHTLESS RABBLE SEEM TO CARE ABOUT

Rat & Swan wrote:

Show it, liar.

In a mountain area subject to death of pine trees by drought and pine
bark beetle infestations, my family has a Choose-and-Cut Christmas Tree
farm.  It provides some retirement income -- enough to pay the property
taxes, and maybe the utilities -- definitely not enough to make a ...

I had been awaiting a large heavy shipment via UPS.. Until this week, I had
routinely been recieving UPS delivers several times a month..
Today, when I went to my rural mail box, about 1/8th mile away, on the
county road, I found a parcel pickup notice for the local rural post ...