Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / March 2008

According the the Capital Press, Oregon's agricultural sales in 2007
totalled $4.89 billion.  That's up substantially from 2006.  With the
commodity price runup in early 2008, the year might be even better.  
Maybe.  Some of the price runup has been from speculators pumping money

I got ten staw bales, nice fresh firmly packed staw bales from a
farmer.
I have a garden. Despite using it as mulch, do you have another idea?
Helen

Did you get washed off your Mozark mountain top?
Been watching the flooding on the news.  Awful mess!
Steve
southiowa

I'm thinking about buying my father a new chainsaw to replace his worn
out old Craftsman.  I don't know anything about chainsaws to be
honest, but I have gathered that Husqvarna and Stihl are two top
contenders.

.................."and reset your system time to GOOTIME!!"

A couple of the windows in the new place need replaced eventually but for
now I'd just like to fix them enough to keep the condensation out.
They are the old aluminum frame ones. There is a guy on the craigslist
who claims he has a way of doing it but he wants to be paid for the

Is this "Reverse Mortgage" thing a rip off?
High set up fees. Limited qualifications threshold
Have you been rejected and you're thankful?

.....that the minute Himself leaves the place, the toilet/garden/washing
machine/stock water runs out?
He drives out in my truck for 2 nights away.  I wave goodbye and decide to
go to the toilet.  I flush and the cistern makes that funny noise that means

It's a mad scramble to get some orchard pruning done in between rain
storms to beat the spring and getting the interior done enough to move in.
We've ripped out the carpets to find some sub-floor rot so we've been
cutting out the bad pieces and patching it. Fortunately the joints ...

Hey, all.  This will sound like a strange situation, and it is a bit
odd probably.  My family of 5 (total) are finally in a position to be
able to save a bit of money, and it so happens that her cousin and her
family want to do the same thing as us, buy some land in the country

Why do barn cats eat corn?
It's bad enough they eat it from the feed bag, but they always manage
to rip the bag.  Then they sh.t and out comes whole corn.  And yes, I
DO feed them cat food daily.

Hi, you all.
I didn't pick up the many leaves on my property last fall. After the
snow melted, I discovered that they are all still there. It is such a
mess!

I'm new in here.  I saw the "rural" banner, and since I live in a rural
part of the state of Michigan, I thought I'd come in.  Is this a forum
for "rural" residents?
Jack.

I have a Stihl chainsaw which takes 50:1, a McCulloch which takes
40:1, and a string trimmer which takes 32:1.  In the process of web
research to find a way to avoid having to keep three premixes around,
I learned of an oil type called 'one-mix', which apparently can be

Someone told me this is the website where farmers hang out.  I just
bought a 5 acer farm.  Ive been living in the city all my life and AI
want to be a farmer.  The farm came with a barn, some kind of machines
and the guy said the one with the big tires was a trackter, whatever