Baymule
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When you get ready for a pig, just watch craigslist. We bought our last pigs as 4 month olds for $50 each. That was a deal we couldn't pass up. Usually a weaner piglet is $50.
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Pastor Dave
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I totally understand. When sustenance farming was the main type of farming, folks weren't rolling in money and their ambition may have been to achieve to the level of the rich and prosperous farmer.
We now seem to want small farms and homesteads like those small family farms, but now it takes more money to do than sustenance living of today.
I heard someone say the other day that in the past everyone had a horse, and to have an automobile, you had to have money.
Now, everyone has a car, and to have a horse, you have to have money.
Everything in its season
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OMG isn't THAT the truth?! Very good post Dave!
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So it finally cooled down enough that I got to use my now working, freshly cleaned & refilled, jacuzzi. Gives me one more reason to be happy that cooler weather is soon to be here. I actually had the house opened up and AC off for most of the day. By dusk, it had gotten up to 80 in here and was a little humid, so I closed the place up and used the AC to get it nice again. We got a few sprinkles today... you could barely feel one when it hit you, and the dots they left on the ground were very spread out and didn't last long. We really could use a couple of days of light steady rain. It's really dry here.
As an aside, I have no idea where they are coming from and hence no idea how to eradicate them... These little tiny gnats... like fruit flies. They are quick and hard to smash and have a habit of committing suicide in my drinks, or flying into my mouth or up my nose. They do seem attracted to light and land and skitter all over the computer screen where I try (mostly unsuccessfully) to smash them. They are all through the house, not just in the computer room... very annoying. Maybe it's time for a major house bug bombing...
Past couple of days I've had bees on my mind... Kinda goes hand in hand with planting fruit trees and a garden next spring... Guess I have a few months to ponder it.
There's an electric company, (not public utilities type) that I pass quite frequently and they have one of those telephone pole bucket trucks with the auger and lifting boom. I think if I can catch the driver, I'm going to ask how much he'd charge per pole to plant the main outline posts for a pole barn... Might be worth the price in manpower/hours saved. Like if he'll do it on off hours, under the table so to speak...
As an aside, I have no idea where they are coming from and hence no idea how to eradicate them... These little tiny gnats... like fruit flies. They are quick and hard to smash and have a habit of committing suicide in my drinks, or flying into my mouth or up my nose. They do seem attracted to light and land and skitter all over the computer screen where I try (mostly unsuccessfully) to smash them. They are all through the house, not just in the computer room... very annoying. Maybe it's time for a major house bug bombing...
Past couple of days I've had bees on my mind... Kinda goes hand in hand with planting fruit trees and a garden next spring... Guess I have a few months to ponder it.
There's an electric company, (not public utilities type) that I pass quite frequently and they have one of those telephone pole bucket trucks with the auger and lifting boom. I think if I can catch the driver, I'm going to ask how much he'd charge per pole to plant the main outline posts for a pole barn... Might be worth the price in manpower/hours saved. Like if he'll do it on off hours, under the table so to speak...
CntryBoy777
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A bug bomb would be a waste, if ya continue to raise the windows. We have swarms of those over here too and truly are annoying, but here shortly they will be gone with the onset of cooler weather.....
....we call them gnats.
....we call them gnats.
Bruce
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Perhaps some fly strips placed in strategic places with lights might cut them down a bit.
goatgurl
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get a few small jars or glasses, put about an inch of acv in it, next put a couple of drops of dish detergent in it and set them around the house. gnats love vinegar and will go in and drown themselves.
Mike CHS
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I need to file that little tidbit away.
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Thank you! will do that right now.
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OK, I didn't do it "right then"... but shortly after signing off, I took 6 small preserve type jars and put white vinegar, apple juice, and some liquid dawn in each. I didn't have any ACV, so figured that ought to be close. Then spread them around the house. 2 in the kitchen, one dining room, one near my recliner, one MBR bathroom and one on top of my computer. I'm still seeing the little things zipping around, but there are at least a dozen dead in the bottom of the jelly glass here at the computer (& none presently on the screen), a half dozen in each of the 2 kitchen ones, several in the one by my recliner. Haven't really looked at the other two but I think that's a good summation. Indeed it works! 
Might have to give some more of these old "country solutions/remedies" a try.
Thanks again GG!
On a sadder note, I wasn't able to finish watching my team lose this afternoon. My blood pressure could no longer take the strain of screaming at the TV
Still love them, but am very displeased with them. 
They've got a lot of issues and they better get a grip on at least the worst of them pretty quick here as the season is now 1/4 done and they're sitting at 50% 
I will admit that I am quite spoiled as they've won 5 super bowl rings over the last 18 years and played in two others that they unfortunately lost. In other associated news, there were several very surprising upsets today. Just goes to show, those of us who thought/think we know who the better team is, really don't have a clue... Guess that's why they still have to play the game. Kudos to the winners.
So, instead, I went back to my hay guy and purchased more hay. This time I bought 6 bales of alfalfa and 2 bales of coastal. As soon as I finish the last of the previous alfalfa, I plan to put some coastal out and see how they do with that. $7/bale compared to $12/bale... I sure hope they like the cheaper stuff... especially since there's virtually no stems, it's all long leaf, and there should therefore be a fraction of the waste as well. I'll let y'all know.
Might have to give some more of these old "country solutions/remedies" a try.Thanks again GG!
On a sadder note, I wasn't able to finish watching my team lose this afternoon. My blood pressure could no longer take the strain of screaming at the TV
Still love them, but am very displeased with them. They've got a lot of issues and they better get a grip on at least the worst of them pretty quick here as the season is now 1/4 done and they're sitting at 50% I will admit that I am quite spoiled as they've won 5 super bowl rings over the last 18 years and played in two others that they unfortunately lost. In other associated news, there were several very surprising upsets today. Just goes to show, those of us who thought/think we know who the better team is, really don't have a clue... Guess that's why they still have to play the game. Kudos to the winners.So, instead, I went back to my hay guy and purchased more hay. This time I bought 6 bales of alfalfa and 2 bales of coastal. As soon as I finish the last of the previous alfalfa, I plan to put some coastal out and see how they do with that. $7/bale compared to $12/bale... I sure hope they like the cheaper stuff... especially since there's virtually no stems, it's all long leaf, and there should therefore be a fraction of the waste as well. I'll let y'all know.
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