Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / July 2005

I have read that it is best to apply herbicide applications in the
early morning on a sunny day to give it time to absorb well into the
plant.  I just wonder if that is true.  Yesterday around 4:00 in the
afternoon I went out and sprayed Roundup on a bunch of unwanted plants

Although I'll never allow a cat in my house (Google "crystallized cat
urine behind baseboards" and "disgusting previous owner"), I'm tempted
to install an outdoor cat to patrol the lawn and garden for mole
control and bird repelling.

How to deal with this ?
My aunt ( a very old person)  has a house in California...
She has had the home over 18 years now.
There are 2 trees whose roots are lifting the concrete pretty high.

Farm prices are being driven up, partly by people of money wanting to
buy a place to hunt deer and turkey.  "Base Camp" outfitters said the
average they pay around here is about $13/acre.  I guess that is for
all kinds of hunting at any time.  My uncle's farm appraisal said

CNN reports Congress has passed a bill to extend daylight saving time
(http://tinyurl.com/9ef6g).  The story contains a paragraph (sentence,
really) that reads:  "According to some senators, farmers complained
that a two-month extension could adversely affect livestock, and

I would have taken the offer, myself. The African bloodline would have
improved the breed, too.-Jitney
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13394619,00.html

Some of you might enjoy reading this interview with Michael Yon, a
blogger in Iraq.  If you also follow up on the links in the article, it
will take you to an article written by him last week on a weapons cache
find - pretty dramatic stuff.

How common is it for cabins to be vandalized or burglarized out in the
most rural areas?   Have any of you returned to your rural property
only to find some trigger happy nut decided to use your cabin as a
backstop?  Can I expect cords of firewood to go missing?  How about

Since the Indianapolis Star was suggested in this ng as an alternative to
the "liberal press", I took a look at its website.  It appears that most
(if not all) the national and world news is from the Associated Press
wire, which is as mass, mainstream media as one can get.

The house we purchased 1-1/2 years ago has two wells.  The plumbing is
setup such that the "main" well can provide water for all household
usages including the basement or the "shallow" well (which turns out to
be a drilled well in an old shallow well) can be used to provide water

Here's my situation:
I live on a piece of property that's more "up and down" than flat. When
you get right down to it, I'm basically hanging off the side of a
mountain. I want a small vegetable garden next year, so I'm starting my

Andy writes;
  I like misc.rural because it provides questions and
answers about living in the country.  I suspect that was
the original purpose of it...

I've got a strip of land that I want to clean up.  It was used as a
staging area during logging and is littered with branches, etc.  Are
there any 3 point attachments that are useful in "raking" the land.  It
will eventually be plowed but there is too much debris currently.  I've ...

Strange goings on in London. Attacks of some kind.
...Brock.