Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / August 2006

which screw head is better?  for a non-slip power driver's use. And what
type for shear-resistance?  outdoor/indoor etc?

This is the first year this happened but in the last week I killed 3
Scorpions in the house. I live in rural Arkansas and I've seen them
outside in the past but never in the house.My house sits on a cinder
block foundation and has a crawl space where the HVAC,etc. is located.

...unlike those sucky, safe Readers Digest quality hick-exalting jokes
some doofuses told a few weeks back.
A penguin was driving through the Arizona desert (as penguins
commonly do) one day in July, when suddenly his car breaks

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it's time to pad our cache.
I see in the paper that my local farmer's co-op is selling wood pellets
for $178.55 a ton.  Check your local ads.  Now is the time to buy,
because in mid-winter they will cost half again as much, if you can

Two bored casino dealers are waiting at the craps table when a very
attractive blonde woman from Northeast Tennessee arrived.
She bet twenty-thousand dollars ($20,000) on a single roll of the dice.
She said, "I hope you don't mind, but I feel much luckier when I play

EchoStar must disable DVRs, judge rules
By Paul BondFri Aug 18, 1:02 AM ET
A judge has ordered EchoStar to disable the digital video recorders used
by several million subscribers to its Dish satellite TV service because

I am looking for a good quality window fan.  WalMart does not have any,
nor does Home Depot or Lowes.
Any suggestions..............??

http://www.newsobserver.com/676/story/470628.html
if you value the rural in your County then you'd be wanting
to keep and eye out for those "back-slapping politicians and
executives" with their quadruple chins and their porker beast

LONDON, England -- Tony Blair's deputy John Prescott denied Thursday a
report he called U.S. President George W. Bush "crap" and "a cowboy."
According to a report in The Independent newspaper, Britain's Deputy
Prime Minister said Bush had been "crap" on the Middle East road map

My tractor runs on 2 batteries.  The positive terminal corrodes over every
days or so and needs to be cleaned to allow current thru.
Could there be a leak at the base of the terminal where vapors are corroding
the terminal?

Really.
About the only thing that will get the oil companies' attention is American
consumers shutting off the flow of money.
Growing up in Houston, and working as a young adult in corporate sales,

I have a tree that is about 30 ft tall.  It has shiny leaves and right
now it's getting berries that are real tastey.  The berries look like
black raspberries, but are longer and rather than be round, they are
oblong.  Several years ago, when I moved here, I decided to rish

For those laboring under the misconception that Canada, particularly  
European Mining dominated Ontario, is and environmental example.
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10990

My name is Peter McPherson. I am a fourth year Psychology student at
RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. I am currently conducting a
research study investigating community attitudes toward online therapy,
and I am looking for individuals that may be interested in being

Got a little gennie.
Got an electric blower in the furnace.
Blower, however, is hard-wired to the breaker panel.   It's the only device on
that breaker and there's a on/off switch back at the furnace end.