Anything AND everything!

[Latestarter]

There were folks on here in the past that owned yaks. I can't remember their screen names but you should be able to search up the threads using the term.

As for the birthdays, if you click on the members tab it will open a window which has today's birthdays as well as new members over on the right side. Other than that, you'd have to check individual member's profiles to find when their birthdays are, if they have them listed.

 

[Mike CHS]

We can burn but you have to log on and give the time that you will be burning and contact info. It's mostly Volunteer Fire Departments here (and lots of them) so that way they can eliminate false alarms. They can also spot check but they have never came here and we have been doing monthly burns getting rid of all of the debris on the place.

 

[Baymule]

I can't believe the stupid restrictions ya'll have on burning. A permit for a campfire??? Really???? On your own land???? Size restrictions? Good Gawd, what a load of over regulation crap.

 

[Baymule]

Hello Fire Department? This is Baymule and I am going to build a campfire in my back yard to roast weenies and marshmallows. What? I need a permit? I have to go to the county office?

Hello County Office? This is Baymule and I need a permit so I can build a campfire in my back yard for a weenie and marshmallow roast. I need to come in and fill out an application? Oh, there is a size restriction on how long the wood can be? Nothing over 48"? OK, I got a chainsaw. No, I didn't take the county sponsored safety class on how to operate a chainsaw, I have been operating a chainsaw all my life and I don't need some pointy headed safety guru telling me how to run my own damn chainsaw, thank you very much. What do you mean I need proof of address and an I.D.? A driver's license, birth certificate, movie ticket stubs and phone or utility bill showing my address?

(at the county office) I gotta fill out all these papers? There must be 20 pages! Yes, I brought my identification. Here is my photo drivers license, passport, birth certificate, high school graduation picture, marriage certificate, a lock of my hair, house payment bill, phone bill, electric bill, water bill, doctor bill, car insurance bill, movie ticket stubs, house insurance bill, tax bill, credit card(s) bill, car note bill, truck note bill, yesterday's socks, DNA swab from Ancestry.com and a note from my neighbor.

It will take 3 weeks to process? And cost $20 processing fees? You will call me? No? What do you mean that anybody could answer my phone and it might not be me? Then you would need all the above before you could release information on my back yard campfire permit? Oh. You will mail it to me? That will take another week for special delivery? How do you send the permit, by donkey train? No I am not being disrespectful of your position at the county......

Baymule gets in car with kids and goes to restaurant and orders hot dogs.

 

[Latestarter]

We aren't there yet, but the idiots "in charge" are working on it...

 

[NH homesteader]

 

[lcertuche]

So glad I live where I do.

 

[Bruce]

As for the birthdays, if you click on the members tab it will open a window which has today's birthdays as well as new members over on the right side. Other than that, you'd have to check individual member's profiles to find when their birthdays are, if they have them listed.

Guess there are no birthdays today. Kinda odd statistically speaking.

I can't believe the stupid restrictions ya'll have on burning. A permit for a campfire??? Really???? On your own land???? Size restrictions? Good Gawd, what a load of over regulation crap.

I can only imagine it is because not everyone has a burn ring 50' from their house. Some people live in town on small lots. Probably concerned they would start a big bonfire and burn down 3 houses.

These are the people with short paved driveways and flat ground at the curb that didn't consider the rest of us when they voted for a 5 year contract with the hauler for "curbside pickup" and wheeled "cans" (that the hauler says do NOT roll in snow) instead of joining the solid waste district (like EVERY OTHER TOWN IN THE COUNTY) where we would be responsible for our own trash and could take it to the transfer station cheap (given how little trash I generate). At my prior house, different city, lot 44x100, less than the "riding ring" here, I had a trash compactor and went to the transfer station about once a month when my 4 recycle bins got full. Cost all of about $2.50. I'm paying 10X that now. Yes more convenient but I don't like paying a lot more because some people generate a lot of trash.

They could have contracted for curbside and gotten together with others for a group rate price. But no, 2/3 vote was "for". Stock "can" is 96 gallons. How many households can generate that much trash and recyclables EACH in a week?? There was an option for 64 and 32 as well, call to get those. I got 32s (trash and recycle) but of course there was no "rebate" even though I cost the town a bit less money.

They might hold 32 gallons of water but with all the internal "structure" for the truck lifting handle and "keeping plastic in shape" you can't get anywhere near as much in them as you can in a 32 gallon round can. They don't roll for sh1t on the loose stone path to the house so I carry them that 25', no carry handles of course. I sometimes roll them the next 30' to the road and try to find a place flat enough they don't fall over. Poor guy SW of us has a driveway that is probably 500' long, no truck, sure can't fit a 96 gallon can in the trunk. LONG drag to the road and I bet those wheels will be shot in a short time. I'm sure he'll have a great time dragging them down there in the snow. Maybe he'll just leave them near the end of the driveway.

The people in the 8 houses west of him (their private road is between my property and his) got sick of figuring out how to get their 96 gallon cans down to the public road REAL fast. The guys with trucks were OK and the FedEx guy too but the others, not having a good time. After the 2nd week I saw the trucks are going up the road. I'm sure they made a deal with the company to come up, for extra money.

 

[NH homesteader]

Wow no curbside here. We just run down to the transfer station down the road. The town I used to teach in you have to pay by the bag. You have to buy tickets and put them on your trash bags, and they do pickups once a week. No ticket and they leave it there. I guess it encourages people to reduce trash because recycling is free and also picked up once a week.

I imagine the burn permits here are more to keep track of the types of people who would be out there burning trash and furniture.

 

[Bruce]

Those people probably wait until a neighbor is burning with a permit and start their own fire. The vols at the dept won't notice there are 2 "plumes", not from miles away