Recent content by rivka

New question: Is there anything I can do, put in my pool etc to run the pump less? Is there a good, inexpensive solar power pump available?

Ok Annie...is your yard DOA yet? I am about ready to call it quits on watering. My grass looks like twigs. So while hubby is out of town, I moved mattress downstairs with fan. I turn on Window unit too 79 energy saver mode during day since I got cutie pie dog and two hens inside while at work...

Thanks for all the replies. I am from Houston/hubby from NY. I am fine with the fan on, he has to have it cold, so we will keep working on this! I hate turning on AC or heater. In winter I just sleep with heated mattress pad and elec blanket. Don't think we turned heat on but 1 or 2 times last year.

Miss the North.. Thanks. It was just the way I was raised...we never write out the name due to the fact that it might get tossed in trash etc. But I really don't know how cyber writing is treated!

I should have been more detailed..sorry about that... It is an in ground pool. I pay to have the chem work done weekly as I was spending more on trying to get it right than just having it done. My costs are the running the pool pump. I even have an energy efficient one. I guess what I am...

Bigbrown: we live up in Spring. The wind was insane and we have those massive pines and oaks, which only by G-d's grace did not fall on our house. We give credit to G-d , our constnat non stop praying, and the fact that we are one of the few on the block who have NOT cut down trees only to leave...

We moved into our house 11 years ago with small pool. Kids were little then and we used it often. Now it seems like a money pit pond. We only go in a bit over the summer, but have to maintain and run pump all year, esp in summer. What can I do to save money on this that does not involve just...

VT-Thank you so much

How do you store? I bought a bunch of rice and it was in plastic bucket. I went to use and it was all weevils or bugs infested.

We had done FFA 26 meat chickens. I am down to about the end of them. I had got a small chest freezer to keep them in. I can now fit them in my second fridge freezer. Question: how do your turn off chest freezer but not have it smell bad?

My light bill last month was 325 already. I am North of Houston. Here is my Q: We have 2 story. All bedrooms upstairs.With kids all away at camp for a month, I am trying to convince hubby we should just move mattress to our TV room downstairs that we have a Energy Star window unit and sleep in...

Thanks Mark...read about your Ham radio hobby. My dad was (is?) a huge radio hobbiest. He used to have a big gray radio with all kids of dials and gages. He talked to people all over the world. then he got the CB/radio that you could dial home phone! he did have the license and used to tell us...

I found my way here from Backyard Chickens! I survived Hurricane Ike and two weeks of no power. I learned a great deal from it. Here are a few things i learned. I am looking to learn from others too. 1. Don't count on the government to help you at all. 2. Don't listen to your friends or family...