Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / August 2006

I have two tickets to a Kenny Rogers-Oak Ridge Boys concert for sale.
The concert is at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia Saturday evening of
August 26th.
The tickets are $44.50 each (just what I paid) and the seats are in row

New to the group, but wanted to pose a question regarding S.D.
property.
I see with regular occurrence listings for 160 - 640 acres of property
in South Dakota. The property is usually situated North of the Black

Ran across these articles today and, since it had been discussed before,
thought they might be of interest.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,430164,00.html
"A Close Call with Catastrophe in Sweden?

Should we boycott BP fuel?   They are shutting down a major alaska oil
pipe line due to their faulty maintenance.  They say this will increase
the price of gasoline about 15 to 20 cents per gallon.
They have made billions in profit recently.  How dare they make us pay

There are some retailers that we have had repeated bad products or
services from.  The three i refuse to use again are:
1.  JC Penny.  The large mall store I went to has no return desk. No
stated return policy. You are at the mercy of some clerk at a cash

everything looks good.  any hints? maintenance?
type of "filter">?

Be patient, I'm new to this or any newsgroup. Thanks.
I moved into an older home on what used to be a family farm. The house
has water supplied by a drilled well ( who knows how deep), the pump is
submersible (how big?) The system worked well when we moved in, but

My house has a 4' crawl space with a dirt floor and a heck of a mold
problem. I've increased the size and number of vents dramatically.
I've installed 20 mil plastic to protect the foundation wall and run
the plastic 3' out from the foundation wall to a french drain. I've

What Big Business Big Business gets. It's only a a percentage of the
population that would die from Mad Cow, after all. They aren't worth the
cost. Since the disease might not develop in people for 8 to 10 years
all the evidence would be gone and Big Business would deny it knew

Any suggestions for a tree that can tolerate wet ground, but not have the
problems associated with willow trees, such as spreading out, growing
downward, growing sideways, leaning/falling, etc.?

I came home this evening to find my house void of water.
I checked the voltage at the tank relay switch ,I indeed had voltage
there.
I guess my next step is to check the power at the top of the pipe that

All farmers need a PHD.  This is just something we can not live
without.  You can see my PHD here:
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/images/products/mid/MM040211517C.jpg

OK, using the wind chill and heat index numbers are more dramatic, but imo
it's stepping over the line when the heat index is referred to as the
"real deal".  And, this one of the two local tv stations is becoming more
the evening weather with news rather than the other way around.  ...

I was recently tagging out some evergreens for digging. Naturally I had to
walk the fields.
We had tagged from early morning, to almost night fall. My co-worker told
me the next day, he found a tick on himself that night. He said it didn't