Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / February 2010

Article in the Grand Island, NE newspaper.
  http://tinyurl.com/ylhxa8k
  Corn planting here generally starts around April 15 or so.
 There are a couple farmers in my area who never seem to get harvest

Siren of the Silent Screen,
Ex-Patriate Chanteuse of Chansons Francaises,
Mon Amour Eternel,
Mon ami   . . .

Obama meets him in the Map Room, not the Oval Office, and when the
meeting is over, ushers him out the BACK DOOR of the White House.
The "honeymoon" is over. Whereas decent people everywhere have been
giving this President the benefit of the doubt, continuing to like the

Usually, the peak burglary season here is in the Fall, after hunters have
provisioned their cabins but before there are staying here during hunting
season(s). But this year, there has been an uptick in post-season
burglaries.

dh said:
" That might be the stupidest thing anyone has ever said, Goo. "
Goo replies with:
" It *is*, Fuckwit - it just is. "

I remember the dead silence at Grand Ma's house. The only sounds were
the distant railroad or the train engine idling at the depot miles away
occasionally.
The bell, of the elementary School, that rang at noon , signaling lunch

Need about 10 more days of 30 degree weather in the Glades to get rid of
all those snakes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-fla-pythons15-2010feb15,0,392
0772.story

When I was a child, many decades ago, there were still a few structures
around on various farms that dated from the time of the Depression and that
were largely built out of a substance called petrified hessian (hessian
being what Americans call burlap).

"We need to price our product based on the risk associated with this
market and allow the customer to make the decision whether they want
the product or not,"
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/108839/issuer-of-79 ...

Learning how to stand in line. They wonder why we live in the hills.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250946/They-havent-got-queue-Government
-teach-immigrants-British-art-lining-up.html

Maybe OT, maybe not...
Does anybody who uses the Weather Underground maps know how to
tell the diff between rain and snow on the NEXRAD overlays?
The Wunderground map page is  here: http://tinyurl.com/yj579xs