Posted on 05/26/2009 4:07:01 AM PDT by saganite
OSU...Oregon State?
Ed
i know huge tracts of California farmland are out of production because of the court decision to reduce available water for irrigation to protect that fish.
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Ed, you may have been added last year and some on that list may have been lost due to a computer problem. I was keeping a duplicate copy on my own and I am sure I missed some of the additions that were made by the orginal owner of the list.
Ohio
So climate change has brought us to peak oil, peak soil and now peak sun — mounting despair, so many hobgoblins to fight, so little time...
I used to help tear down older homes and had a large trailer that had a genset on it with 2 planers on it. Used to rough cut the scavenged wood check it with a metal detector, run it through the planer and stack it on the open part of the trailer. Did this for about a year and stored the wood on good pallets in the barn .
Built my house with it.......:o)
Lots to salvage from an old home being torn down. We used older cast iron sinks and and bath tubs , had em acid etched, cleaned and enameled again. new hard ware or restore the old even. Oak floors in the home are from an old roller rink. Bought part of that at auction and with the same planers and joiners we covered almost 1200 sq ft of the homes floors with it.
Working a deal to trade a friend who owns a line x bedliner business . I have found some cheaper metal roofing and it is not color or long term guaranteed etc like better stuff so I told him I’d trade him a some EBR’s and some fodder for em if he would line x coat all the metal and trim after I cut and fit it and transported it to him. A line x coated metal roof in hail country is best one can get per my observations.
Line x coated my old toyota 4x4 after fixing the last hail storms damage that had super sized baseball hail stones and that was 4 seasons ago and many hail storms later. Tennis ball size hail cracked the windows on it last year but didn’t ding the body at all......
I use that truck for work from April till July 1st when our worst of the worst is pretty much over.
Lots of farmers , 4x4 owners with work and play vehicles and folks fed up with hail damage are getting the line x paint jobs according to my buddy. There was even a older BMW in his shop getting a light grey line body coating.
I’m reading up on Line X now. I didn’t know about it, but we’ve been thinking about getting SP’s truck bed lined with “something”. There’s a plastic liner in it now, and it’s definitely tough stuff... but junk gets behind it and I’ve been taking it out twice a year to clean. Thanks for letting me know about this! :-) ...and you say you’re basically going to end up with a Line X tin roof?! Sheesh! That should stop a LOT of stuff from coming through the roof!
Thanks for the pings. :’)
I’m going nuts about gardening, but probably not in the same way as most of your customers. I’ve had a big garden every year since I was 12, and for 2 years now I’ve been too sick to plant. I even have 5 acres waiting for me now!
Talked my dad into letting me start a container garden in this big ugly gravel patch that’s in front of the house. Even on a bad day I can crawl that far. And once in a while mom and I go out to the land and do something. Last weekend we planted some mint, and marked a few of the trees I’d planted just after buying the land, the were so short they get lost in the weeds.
I was hoping to have my house built and my garden and orchard set up by now, but this year I’m just trying to survive.
It stinks though, gardening is in my blood, and this year when it could count the most I can barely walk.
I know, Sweetie. I’ve had seasons like that, too. Either a sick kid, or my back was in terrible shape, or like now when I have to work full-time, etc.
Do what you can to keep yourself healthy and eventually things will fall back into line.
I REALLY miss my garden (I logged 98 hours last paycheck at work!) but Husband has everything ready for me to plant when I can. It’s going to be a late garden this year, but that’s OK, too. The plants are getting good care and nutrition in the greenhouse...just a few more days for them to wait.
I was going to work on it today, but it’s too wet. Grrrrr!
I just came back from a mini-vacation in Wisconsin the last 5 days, and let me tell you ..... I didn’t see very many farms along I-90, I-94 or I-43 planted yet. That’s not a good sign.
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