Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / January 2008

"Although the US is home to the greatest experiment in religious freedom
ever, and the great majority of Americans support that principle,
surprising gaps in knowledge and understanding remain when it comes to
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this years drought has presented the governing class of raleigh
with the wonderful opportunity to raise the cost of water by 50%.  
it was always to inexpensive and somehow something needed to be
done about that.  

we want to monitor the temperature of the pipe on a wood stove.
Is it better to place the gauge above or below the damper?

Does anyone know anything abouy the Russo Glass-View Wood Burning
Stove.  I bought a house that had one, in the back it has a blower,
not sure if the blower works, I plugged it in and nothing,  I made
sure the Flu was open and in the middle postion, then tested it with

Anyone got any suggestions, short of killing the bird?
My Rhode Island Red rooster has frostbite on one side
of his wattle. The other side froze last year, turned black
and fell off. The poor bird shakes his head all the time --

Another blow for the panphobicists.
http://www.rdmag.com/IndustryNews.aspx
A major D'oh moment, actually.  A clone is nothing more than an identical twin
temporaly separated.

It is hereby decreed that you have a Happy and Prosperous New Year and that
the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl.

Recently someone posted this link to the Jersey Tomato
http://www.njfarmfresh.rutgers.edu/JerseyTomato.html
That put me to thinking and now I've decided to plant some vines next summer. I'm
looking for the old fashioned high acid firm flesh tomatoes like my granny grew in

Does anyone know what are the lowest temps small bedding plants like
cabbage,
collards,broccoli,lettuce and such can take with out damage from the
cold? Just wondering because I saw such plants in Wal Mart yesterday.

"Smart Dog Bites Dumb Man"
"A 47-year-old man in the northwestern German city had apparently had one
too many on Tuesday night when he decided to show his friend's dog who was
boss. He got down on all fours in his friend's apartment and, with the

I want to install a modern, clean woodstove in my house. Its a 2
story, 8/12 pitch roof. Because of the floor plan, the only practical
place to put the stove is at an outside corner, which will leave a
minimum of 8-10 feet of chimney pipe above the roof just for clearance

from the face of the earth tommorrow and all of the land used for animal
production was to be used for non-animal food production, what would be the
short and long-term economic, ecological, and social consequences (both good
and bad)? Has anyone studied this possibility and ...

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Scientists have recreated a good tasting tomato suited for the
northeast U.S.

                                   Dean

I'm considering getting a 3 point mounted snow blower for our 1/4 mile
gravel driveway and am wondering if I'll be fighting broken shear pins
with the 1" minus gravel we have.  Driveway isn't the smoothest in the
world and I'm pretty sure that I'd gouge it a few times.   Would a