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Okay, upon rereading, I'm not sure if I made myself clear: I want something that handles the snow better than the typical automobile, and costs less to insure.

At the hopefully-new-location (made the offer today, fingers crossed!), the nearest bus stop is 1.5 miles away at a Park & Ride. This is where the kiddos will catch the big yellow limo to school, and where we can catch the big blue and white limo into town. (This fact of being deeply rural but...

Not exactly a how-to sort of book, though it is nonfiction. "The Dirty Life" by Kristen Kimball. Kinda a dumb name, so I resisted initially, but it's a beautiful book. It's the story of her marriage, what drove her husband to become a farmer, and how she got involved in that lifestyle through...

He sent me the pamphlet via email. It is fantastic! Thanks, Ed.

Yeah, same for us- it was internet or TV and internet won. Because the internet at least has the potential to be a tool, to whereas TV is really just a toy.

Heh. Wash-o-mania. That is true. I am good about rewearing clothes, so is DH to an extent (his work-out-of-the-home clothes have to be washed with every wearing), but man the little ones can't keep anything clean. The days that they are able to wear one set of clothes and last night's...

There is a lot in this subforum about hanging clothes to dry- which is fantastic- but less about washing by hand. I've only really read MamiPollo and Sunsaver as members who have consistently washed and dried in a non-electric way. And, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that they...

I am happy to have part of my taxes go to help the less fortunate, absolutely. But Laureli, I think you are right that the real problem is that modern life has gotten way too expensive and there just are enough wages that can be earned to pay for it. I don't think people want handouts, what...

Oh, yes. Disease is and will continue to fight science back. But the overpopulation problem won't last forever, or even very long when you look at the Earth's lifespan.

This is going to vary wildly by each locations building codes, but you could always go with composting toilets and a greywater system. You'd need a dry well (a deep hole filled with sand a gravel) for at least some of the greywater. Oasis design has some great stuff.

It is cool. There is huge windmill right behind their little rental cottage, which used to be a train depot. My stepson's stepdad (got that? LOL) has to travel for work, though. Ain't much to support a family in Parma, I'm afraid.

Well, here's the thing about the U.N.- they are trying to say the sky should be blue, stay blue, and what can we do to make it blue? They aren't wrong, the sky IS blue, after all, but they are missing the point that they aren't the cause of that. The U.N. can continue to contribute to the...

SSDreamin', you're in Parma! Get out! My stepson (when he isn't here, of course) lives on the old LeFere plantation.

Hehe! I'm canning pears and putting the finishing touches on costumes right now, so not yet, but I was thinking I'd ask about it when we go trick or treating on Monday.

Yeah, I'm with Marianne on this. Obviously, you don't need internet to live. But you don't need a house to live, either. I think it's tool, and it makes life (for everyone- we all benefit from lower prices, less traffic, and fewer imported fuels) more efficient, so it only makes sense to try...

Well, there is one that my neighbors have had on their porch for an age... it's a huge porch, on a giant Victorian house (and I mean GIANT, the owners are a judge and a nursing professor, and they have eleven children) so it fits in with the decor and is protected from the elements... for a...

We don't have an upright fridge. We have three chests that, altogether, use less electricity than one energy star upright- one very big freezer in the basement, one medium chest fridge in the basement, and one small (dishwasher szed) chest fridge in the upstairs kitchen. The stuff in the...

Okay, I spent pretty much this whole morning on the phone with AT&T and Verizon, and they both said that coverage was "spotty" out there. And the prices they quoted me were INSANE! $110 per month after all taxes and fees, with data caps and a two year contract! Yah, thanks but no thanks...

I have a friend, he's 66 now. He recently retired. It's a long story, but he had to claim unemployment for a couple of months, go back to work, and then retire. He could not do unemployment stuff at the library computers, because their browser stores passwords and our state's MARVIN system...

You know, I'm starting to think that maybe we will get a smartphone or a MiFi. If I can a 1 year contract, it'll be up around the time DSL (hopefully) becomes available. I'll really need to investigate the coverage, though.