Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / November 2006

Oh my, how my heart bleeds for the greedy corporate farm tycoons. And
just how did America harvest the crops in WW2 without illegal aliens?
Somehow it was done. Restore the family farm.
ted

New York - American chocolate lovers in growing numbers are discovering
how to pander to their
addiction and simultaneously help the environment by buying organically
certified chocolate.

I need to bring in firewood up to 11x13" (my furnace door size) through
an 18x26 basement window, which is 6' higher than the basement floor.
I was planning to buy a pvc tube around 14-16 inches diameter, but they
cost a fortune, so I am open to suggestions. I need to bring in ...

Howdy!
I'm considering the purchase of a saw mill. I have 69 acrea in SE TN
and want to build on it. There are plenty of trees.
I am thinking of a timber frame house with conventional walls in

I live in northeast Massachusetts and am building a two story 572 sq
ft. addition to my 1,100 to 1,200 sq. ft. home. I plan to install a
high efficiency non-catalytic wood stove on the ground floor of the
addition. There will be one floor/ceiling vent in the ceiling where the

if you have any of these cheapo electric tools always keep an eye out for
"parts" at yard sales . I got an almost complete unit for $4.

I am asking this question for a neighbour who has the above machine. He
is having trouble with the oil breaking down in the pistons on the
forklift.(The arms I guess) (Bubbles, etc.) He wanted to know which oil
is best for high compression.Thanks

Republican Senators Lugar (Indiana) and Snow (Maine)
comfortably win re-election in landslides.  Republican
Senator Santorum (Pennsylvania) loses in a landslide.
What's the difference?  Lugar and Snow are conservative

Yeah, I know, not the heart of "the big empty". However, we're having no
luck.
We've got 30-odd tons of hay coming in via semi in a couple of weeks,
and need a 16+ foot long hay elevator to get it into the barn. 16 feet

What is the best BB gun nowadays?

When I was in the military, someo0ne rigged up a box and when the lid was
slid back or removed (I can't remember which) a fake mouse or (other small
animal) that was on a string and I think it was attached to some kind of
spring which would "snap" the creature out and scare the whey ...

This is the first time I have seen a fox this close to our house. A red
fox with a distinctive white tip on it's tail (never saw that befor
either), was in our back yard and went off into the woods. A few
minutes later we saw it in the front and down the hill where it was

He (Bonner Motors} did in fact get an Army SBIR Phase 2 award of $727,569.
"Low Fuel-Consumption, High-Altitude Capable, Heavy-Fuel Internal
Combustion (IC) Engine Concepts for Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)"
https://www.armysbir.com/awards/abstracts06/A05-054.pdf

What does one do to discourage white tail deer. It's not the first time
that we've been bothered by deer, but this year it's starting earlier.
The big attraction this year seems to be my wife's Hosta plants. Motion
activated lights don't seem to work very well. Any suggestions?

Republicans lose the monopoly on redneck culture
Tim Reid, Washington
THEY wear cowboy boots, chew tobacco, love hunting, hate abortion, want
less government spending - and some voted for Ronald Reagan. Now they