Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / August 2006

We live in a small town and there is a small diner in the next town
over.  They do a good lunch crowd and a really large Friday night fish
fry crowd.  The fish is damn good and people flock there from miles
around.

Note: The following of course does not apply to *everyone* in small towns,
but it seems to be quite common in my small town.
Small town behavior of people...
I can't really put my finger on what is going on with this or why people do

It used to be that people would call me and say "Hi this is Fred calling" or
"Hi this is Jim", etc.
These days, especially with the younger people, they call and say "Hey". Or
say "What you doing?" Then I need to ask them who is calling or guess.

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Daher, a member of the civil defense for 20 years, has been photographed
with bodies of the dead in two wars now - first in 1996 and most
recently with the baby on July 30 - both times after Israeli attacks in

I've become hung up on amateur video ever since I got the satellite
broadband.  A really good one is at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-872124450700446493&hl=en
In case you were wondering, yes, it worked fine.

We have a considerable amount of Grey (Digger) Pine trees. They have
large cones, in which reside Pine-nuts. Does anone know an easy way to
release the pine nuts from the cone ? ANY help greatly appreciated.
Many thanks

Well, fall is approaching and the yellow jackets in the Coast Range of
Oregon have decided to make a last ditch effort to make life miserable
for us.
See this page for information:

New to composting toilet (less than a week):
The compost in my Excel keeps drying out in the back, yet i see fluid
in the drying pan.
Iam now spraying the top, of the "dry-looking" compost with very-warm

No, it's not our freedoms. Anti-Americanism isn't going
away until the U.S. puts some fairness in its foreign
policy.
By Julia E. Sweig,

Someone actually paid me for the junk pickup a couple years ago and,
today, the Honda wagon departed via rollback.  I'd figured if I waited
long enough the time might come when I wouldn't have to pay to have it
hauled off.  I was surprised they were so willing because there isn't a

"he's [Goo's] the most intelligent tutor available to me here on Usenet,
and I chose to take full advantage of that tutelage" - "Derek"
"There's no doubt that he [Goo] knows more about rights than ANYONE
on this forum, and only a fool would waste the opportunity to take full

I'm looking at, for example, flail mowers.
When they say "HP required", do they mean tractor HP or PTO HP (when not
specified)?
Also, when they give a min and max HP, will the implement really work well

Need to be able to move a large quantity of 24-28" diameter logs, during
cutting.  I don't have local access to a cant hook or peavey, to see which
one works better (just rolling/moving the individual logs).  Any preferences
for either tool, based on actual experience?  Note that ...

Hello to any experienced woodstove chimney people....
We have got ourselves into a very difficult position by having taken
bad advice and done all the wrong things with a woodstove.  Any
opinions & ideas much appreciated -  we are very despondent at the