Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / September 2004

Does anybody have experience with long term storage of oranges?
The fruit on our trees are ripe now, and we'd like to get them off
before the weather gets them, until now we never had enough of a crop to
have to worry about long term storage.

Hallo..
Does anyone have any ideas for getting rid of rats..have them running behind
drywall, and scurrying over grape arbor.
Many thanks

My wife and I were walking the dogs in the lower property the other
day all the dogs went down and started pawing their noses. Little
black wasps were stringing them. Ran half way to the house and some
followed so we ran the rest of the way and got inside. The dogs were

----- Original Message -----
From: "CusMarsh" <cusmarsh@aol.com>
Newsgroups: misc.rural
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:29 PM

Hi everyone! I am looking for an oil lamp for power outages. Anyone use the
Dietz? If so please give me your impressions as to how much light it gives
and model number to get. I have a cheapo now that barely gives off enough
light to navigate with at night. The lamp will be used ...

I'm thinking of buying a freezer trailer (again).  I quickly outgrew my
other trailer with chest freezers in it, not to mention all the freezers in
my garage.
The insulated freezer unit is 5X9 and costs $6000, plus freight from WI or

Hi, all
We're first time posters here but read the group often, so we're
sorry for the Hensler's too.
My wife and I are building a modest retirement home (20'x20')

We were hit with the remnants of Ivan here in PA over the weekend and
had flooding that many people have not seen since Hurricane Agnes hit in
1972. I received some relatively minor problems of several trees down on
my lane, my pond overflowing on the dam, some washed out section ...

my dad is looking to buy a sickle bar mower for his 33hp Massey.  he wants to
be able to do ditch banks near his farm in western Va.  any body have any
suggestions on where to pick one up?  we have access to all of NC, most of
southern or western Va and eastern Tn.  not many of the ...

Any suggestions what works best for hay fever?  Ragweed seems to be the
one that gets me.   We had a wet summer and now it's hay fever time
until it freezes which won't be for month and a half yet.  I'd like to
get something over the counter that works but won't make me sleepy.  I

My agenda is mowing an acre or so of lawn, snowblowing,  *maybe* some brush
cutting, and maybe 120v AC backup power for a house.
I've looked at used Gravely's, but am intimidated by the size/weight (about half
the lawn mowing is on a steep slope - works with the 48" commercial deck ...

the thread about sickle bar mowers seems to have veered away from this
topic, so I'll start a new thread.
The county doesn't do a darned thing to maintain the ditches along the
county road.  I have even had to dig out the culverts after watching water

I just had a new well drilled and the well guy recommended getting a
generator to power it when the electricity goes out. It's a 2 horse
220V pump. So I'd like to also power parts of the house too if
possible. I've been reading the thread of the transfer switch thing

I hope this subject is not too much of a stretch for this forum but it
seems consistent with certain types of threads here.
I just went from a "poor Microsoft why are they persecuting it" to a
"Microsoft is really really dangerous and something needs to be done"

I grew up in a home near the Catoosa Wildlife Reserve.  My mother is
now selling the home, so I thought I would post this info in case
anyone is interested.  This is the home in which I was raised.  It is
a beautiful one-story home that sits on a little hill and is adjacent