Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / September 2004

We have about 3/4 an arce for a couple sheep. Is there a grass seed
that can be used that will support sheep?
Thanks.

I bought the 15KW Guardian with ATS-100AMp Switch.  My house has two
main 150AMp breakers outside that feed two seperate panels inside )mpt
close to each other) that would be most difficilt to access.  My
question is could I just use the two breakers on the outside to feed

I'm glad to hear that Terri and the dogs are in good shape, but I was
watching the ag news this morning, and the whole SE quarter of the US
has taken a bath, literally.  Many crops that were still in the fields
are terribly damaged. Even if crop insurance takes care of the loss,

I installed a convective heat exchanger system to heat my domestic hot
water from my wood boiler system, per the boiler company's
instructions.  I have had nothing but problems and they are running
out of answers (never had good ones, really). I am getting very

We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore
By Garrison Keillor
Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party.  Once, it was
the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who

   "ARAs"/veg*ns very much want people to keep in mind  that billions
of animals die each year because people eat meat. When it is pointed
out that those very same animals *only* experience life because people
eat meat--some of those lives being good and some of them being

My favorite splitting maul has a handle that's loostened up. There's
about 1/4" of play in the head and I'm concerned it may eventually
become airborne!!
Will steel wedges snug it up enough or should I try and rewedge the

My garage needs new roofing and my house will someday, but not now.  I'm
thinking of steel roofing for the garage and do the house when it needs
it.  Is this something a fairly handy home-owner can do or should it be
contracted?  Anybody out there done it, or had it done? Thanks.  

Parameters:
3 bedroom house.
Clay soil. "Percolates" OK, not swampy.
The county requires 300 feet of leach line per bedroom for a total of

SUMMARY:
THREE YEARS of and continuing MENTAL TORTURE, TERRORISM, SADISM and
BLATANT human rights violations by FBI SADISTS and PERVERTS.
Please forward and distribute this to as many senators, congressmen,

I was at a friends place the other day and it was raining. My friend
grabbed the hay elevator to move it and was shocked. (He was OK.)
I looked at the wiring and didn't see anything which could cause this
problem, so I'm wondering if it was the electric motor which was slightly

I'm looking for a lightweight, reliable, relatively inexpensive saw for
occasional use (cutting fallen trees, cleaning up branches) to be used
several-->half a dozen times per year. I looked at the Echo saws at my local
dealer and like the lightweight, compact size. I'm ...

Well, I'm off on another toot, tho not far from my original plans for
my place...
I want to subdivide my pole barn, running an indoor wall from East to
West.  Straw bale construction comes to mind, as this should help

The last couple weeks, I have been gathering lush swaths of rye grass from
corners of my yard, for my cat to eat deep into Winter. My kooky cat likes to
munch on a handful of grass, each day. And in the dark of Winter, he really
misses not having his greens. The past few years, I ...

For those of you who havn't seen it......
http://tinyurl.com/6gccu
Here it is..... a little rural humour.