Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / December 2003

If anyone has ever sold steers to kids for 4-H, what did you charge?  Sale
barn price?  More?  Less?
Hubby says to charge more, but the buyer is the silo man's kid and I really
like the silo man.  His prices are always very fair and reasonable and he

You won't have to go to a foreign extremist country to do this, just
saunter down to your local Dollar General store.
Enemy Commandos are a collection of GI Joe type dolls.  Among the
collection of other objectional characters these people are trying to

I have really blown it.  Major mistake.  I'm falling in love and I know I
shouldn't.  It's going to end up badly.  It will cost me a bunch of money
and I'll probably still end up with a broken heart.  I know this, but I
can't help it.  Why'd god have to make baby pigs so darn ...

I start getting short day depression,the blues or what ever it's called
this time of year? I've noticed it comes every year like clockwork when
the days start getting shorter in the fall and is especially likely to
show up right around the time we change from daylight savings time ...

Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I couldn't find a closer NG or good info on
the web.
I'm thinking of springing for a Bobcat-type loader for clearing snow. A
track loader - though pricier - would be more useful for summer landscaping.

I put a couple pictures up of my brooders and baby pigs, if anyone is
interested.  The brooders are all the way at the end of the "My Bird Stuff"
gallery.
http://www.pbase.com/jenamartin/root

There was some chemicals left on my farm when I bought the place.  One
bottle was broken.  The garage still smells from this stuff.  The
seller (who is very old, and senile) told me it's a (pour on) cattle
grub killer.  He said the name began with a "T".  He cant remember the

Back in 1998 I bought a generator, figuring it might come in handy
someday.  I gave it a run-in, changed the oil, fogged the cylinder,
bagged the exhaust and put it back in its shipping carton.  It has been
sitting in the barn ever since.  I beat the Y2K hysteria by about 6

We've had so much rain lately that my backyard is a lake and the
ground water level is rising near my house.  This morning I noticed
that the pipe inside the house that receives waste water from the
washing machine was making a lot of gurgling sounds whenever I flushed

I heard through the grapevine that they guy who owned the brooders I got
lost lots and lots of chickens.  The neighbors blamed it on the "weird"
stuff he was feeding them, but I don't know.  Whatever his problem was, I
don't want it.

"Limbaugh: Keep my med records private"
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Embattled radio talk show host
Rush Limbaugh is asking a Palm Beach County, Florida,
court to keep his medical records sealed from

JMartin wrote:
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The sow decided to have her pigs this evening.  It's seriously cold out,
snowing, etc.  She was in the middle of having them when hubby got to her.
One was dead, one died on the way to the house and three were darn near
froze.  The shelter I set up for the earlier pig (who is doing ...

One of the things I enjoy most about having my 15 acres is reading the
farm supply catalogs. I am sure that I do not know all the catalog
suppliers out there, so what are your favorite catalogs for all the good
little pieces and gadgets that are needed in rural farm life? Web ...

Woodmaster's 1,340 pound model 3300 stove has a 20"x21" door and a draft fan
and a water jacket with R38 insulation around it. Its $3,600 price does not
include a circulating pump nor 1" PEX pipe ($1.19/ft) nor pipe insulation nor
the recommended unperforated black corrugated pipe ...