Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / April 2006

First ran into this not long after I moved here when I came home from work
to find the burn can in the driveway flattened.  There was no delivery
ticket on the door (the usual procedure), but I did finally think to check
if the oil tank had been filled; it had been. Since then, ...

from readers' letters at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
READER: If you are running undercover operations in a country in order
to destabalize its legal government and doing so in order to set up a
situation so that you can drop a nuclear bomb on that country, does

Spanish 'Star-Spangled Banner' Draws Ire
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
The Associated Press
Thursday, April 27, 2006; 7:47 PM

When an Illegal Alien is hired to work, he can't pay Income Tax or SS
Tax or *any* other payroll taxes because he doesn't have a valid SSN.
The employer *can't* send in taxes without the SSN; not that he would
want to.

I live on a tertiary rural road, maintained by the state.  About 8 years
ago, they did the recycling in place thing ... without adding any new
asphalt.  It had potholes after the first winter and it's been downhill
since.  They've oil/chipped, patched, edge cut, cleaned ditches,

Maybe some of the great minds assembled here travel more than Yours Truly - who
hardly ever does.
The question:  what does one do for backup?   Suppose somebody robs you - takes
everything you have on your person and you're 3,000 miles from home?

I needed to have a culvert near my barn replaced.
Fercocktah culvert, rotted through and exposed:
http://i2.tinypic.com/t5p0cz.jpg
Can see how it's sunk,  almost entirely submerged... so during winter

Anyone,
Without long details explaining why, would it be a problem to leave the
(closed) top of a septic tank exposed?  In this way, dirt would not totally
enclose the tank, and some air may enter the tank -- but air is induced into

I am looking to purchase a back-pack type sprayer to keep weeds and
unwanted brush down on my thirty acres..  (mostly for infrequent
spraying of glyphosate or 2-4D)  Anyway I am faced with a bewildering
bunch of choices, sources and prices..  I have a few questions...

I am working on moving to rural Ontario and will have the power line
from the companies pole in the road buried in a trench and run up the
side of our driveway to a permanently installed meter. I understand
from Hydro One (the power company) that I can then run 2  separate 100

greetings, looking to repave our driveway+extension next year (just
can't afford it this year), however we're looking to digout the
extensions this year and prep so it has a year to settle in.  what's
the correct procedure and materials to use?

I want to build a detached garage. Garaj Mahal, I guess. There are
constraints with setback, power lines and leach field from septic tank.
How do I find where the leach field is?
I have a rough sketch (2 actually) "as-built" drawings, and they seem to

             I have a 1975ish Ford 3000 gas tractor. I ran out of gas
the other day. I refilled and now the tractor runs like it is starved
for gas. It will bounce between 1600RPM and 2200RPM and usually will
just eventually die, especially under load like a brush hog. I'm

"As with many alternative fuels, it takes more energy to produce a
gallon of ethanol than the fuel itself produces when burned in a car

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Goo wailed: