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Who needs to own a cat to feed, shelter and pay a Veterinarian when it becomes ill, when I have seen 14 feral cats on and near our lot. I recently evicted 5 of them from under our house. :idunno

When we lived in central Cal. , we had house mice here, there, and averywhere. Now, we live in SW Wa., and we hardly see a mouse due to numerous feral cats. This past week we had morning temps in the low 30's. And what did we find this morning . ? ... 3 mice - grey with a whiteish...

I was hospitalized for a couple days 2 weeks ago in Vancouver, Wa.. In the admitance area, the staff was kind of stressed and said that they were working overtime. One said that the nurse in charge of this area quit to take a higher paying job as a on call uber taxi driver using her car. I...

I already had 23 ( 5 types of ) Japanese maple trees along with 4 prairie fire crabapple trees as well as a river birch , also 6 of mugo pines , and a dozen dwarf mugo pines, and 5 dwarf conifers. Also a couple dozen of 4 types of ferns. Last week I met a retired accountant that about 3 years...

4" since the barn water lines go overhead to automatic horse waterers in each corner of each stall in my barn ... i converted to 3 /4 " copper pipe, whapped in heavy insulation then covered within 4 " black plastic pipe. On the end of each overhead run at each stall ( 18 ) , I installed brass...

I installed double insulated PVC pipe for automatic waterers in my horse barn in high desert area of central Cal.... one night ALL of the PVC lines split the long way up to 12 feet long. The only reason that there was no flood was because water in the lines formed to ICE at 14* F . Even a...

Plumbers in SW Washington are now charging on average ... $ 170.00 / hour. First, our water heater died a watery death, so we called American Home Shield ( a home insurance company for working parts of the house. A nightmare in dealing with this company ... they only said that they will...

If anyone or anyone that you know are thinking of repiping your home, and see a TV advertise for this service from " repipe specialists " ... " we repipe your home in one day with copper or pex pipes at half the cost of a plumber ". RUN as fast as you can if you value your sanity, your money...

the prices not only scooted up a bit ... our water heater died suddenly ... plumbers in our neck of the woods in SW Washington are charging at $170 / hour ( or more). o_O:ep:duc:th

Marie ... I dispose of a dozen or much more coyotes per year. My neighbor across the street does the same. The cattle ranch owner that owns 5,000 acres (just a mile from our ranch ),invites 10-15 of his buddies for 2-4 weekends in January every year. They harvest between 75-100 coyotes per...

I used to get 10 feral cats for for free for pest control for my ranch. However, in our area, the life span of a cat in the country is much less than 30 days due to them being coyote snacks. After a couple of years, the bleeding hearts took over the county pound and things changed. They...

Jack Frost was quite busy last night ... frost on the pumpkin and roofs ! :hu

Anyone have recomendations for the BEST electric , cordless leaf blower to roundup tons of fallen leaves that blow onto our yard from every tree from 3 blocks forward every fall . I used to use my trusty rake for several years, but these days rhumatisim in my hips is catching up to me. :old...

The South of the US does NOT have a monopoly of lard and cracklins.... We , that hail from the far North of Europe prepare almost every meal with lard. We ate cracklins until we couldn't eat anymore every time my grandmother or mother rendered pig fat. :drool Now, I render pig fat...

NO I live about 20 miles from Portland , Ore. where the left wing RADICALS are having their " peaceful protests " for every day for months on end with NO end in sight. Destruction of Public and Private buildings, fires, grafitti , bodily injuries, and even a MURDER have occured ... all because...

In our neck of the woods ( about 10 miles away ) is Portland, Ore.. The news reporters have been touting that this town had and still has the WORST AIR QUALITY IN THE WORLD for this past week. Oh boy, it is bad... so bad that we can't see the SUN and the air smells of heavy smoke.I wear 3...

Glad that you are finally are recovered enough to be going back to work. With a profession like looking up a black hole all day ... you better have to have a GREAT sense of humor ! :lol: .... on a lighter side, Astronomers reported the collision of 2 black holes 2nd only to the BIG BANG...

45 Cornish Cross ...... :drool:drool:drool:drool

Guess who is back in a hospital again ? :th I had a sudden increase of fluid retention on my lungs, so the doctor ordered another layup in a hospital. Took 3 hours for the doctor to find a hospital bed, this time in Washington with a 14 hour waite in their emergency lobby before I got a...