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The stick on squares that were in our cabin started to stick to our feet and a bunch were missing.. I installed the cheapest laminate I could find.. $0.69 a square foot. Looks great, wears like iron even with 2 young boys. We love it! Looks like wood wears like iron and was cheap! Yes I...

Hi the link did not work? It is my understanding you do not get infected with lyme until the deer ticks starts to feed. The first 24 hours the tick is just getting settled in to feed. Also the lyme is in the ticks gut. Yes get the head if you can but do not squeeze or molest the tick in order...

A lot of the above info is a little over my head.... We do live in a high lyme zone, and have have very high infection rates locally. (Several family members have tested positive.) We check completely for ticks every day in season to catch them before the 48 hours required for infection. If...

I can not chat long know, but I use a chain saw most every day of the week. Look up a "swedish roller guide" It is a couple dollars and you just use a file with it. It is cheap, fast easy and accurate. curved cuts are uneaven sharpening on each side. Do not forget to file your rakers too...

I love this thread... No wonder ya all are on the internet were no "normal" people can see ya..................:lau Yes in summer when it is "hot" over 60 F ............. I like to wear my birthday suite with a old T shirt and my old croc slippers outside. (Thankfully, I can do that..However...

Speaking of insulation... My new chicken coop is tighter than our house...:hide No way can I let the fire go out for 6 hours in winter....... I started insulating the basement, but need to finish... ON Oh on burning hot but short lived wood, consider adding lots of thermal mass to soak up...

Ya I wear that outfit when I sleep too. But slip into my PJ's aka.."house cloths" when I wake up. So in winter my "house cloths" are whatever old sweats, or fleece (Talking some 20+ years old) and some kind of old thick thermal shirt, very thick wool socks and crock sandles in the house our...

Congrats! We have 3!!;) Only use them just about every day.... ON

freemotion :thumbsup Very cool! I am not quite as far along as you. Still have organic store bought feed as free choice in the coop. (50 lb sack lasts 12 birds nearly 2 months) I feed a high protein mix with their mash: Which has an apple, or squash or milk/yogurt base where I add the 27%...

-12 F last night, basement back up furnace went on once. (Set at 60 F) We heat with wood and the basement furnace only kicks on at -10 or lower outside temp. Usually only once a "cold" night. (I will wake up and put more wood in..:D) We keep bed room doors closed at night so it is cold when...

Wished I had time for books.. I used to enjoy reading. Having two young boys makes it hard to concentrate on reading. (I can not help but fall asleep when the kids do... (Too much fresh air and hard work...;)) Some day again.. ON

Some one mentioned "fresh" above.. I watched the trailer and liked it.! I also am very aware of the Growing Power project highlighted in the trailer. Real cool impact they have made in Milwaukee WI.. Anyone interested should google Growing Power and see what it is all about. ON

Thank you!!!!! Yes, Just what I was looking for. Yep off to the library we go.. BBH, Here is a link to King Corn. This is what I found: http://www.kingcorn.net/ Looks like a hoot. ON

OK I have seen suggestions scattered but really after a must watch list. I am looking for pro-organic, pro-local food, pro-small farm stuff also success stories. Also Anti- Monsanto, Anti-GMO, anti-factory farm, anti-mono agriculture, anti-corn syrup, Anti- unfermented soy propaganda. I...

Hi, I suggest aknowledging them and accepting them in your mind. Even talk out to them. "Hey be quiet, I am trying to sleep!" My first house was like that, at first very creepy, over time it became a warm lived in place. On the subject of bad/weird dreams.. I have had my share. I do not...

We do not use perfume stuff in our home we have be come very sensitive to it. I work outdoors in the woods, I can smell when someone with perfume is coming from a long long way off when the wind is right. Also we can smell if someone with perfume touched our children at school. I personally...

What kind of wood is that slab wood? $20 is pretty good, I would get a bunch if it is hardwood. on

Thanks for the tips freemotion.. Will try that next time. For now I just got a big batch of Pasties while in Ontonagon MI. The diner at the end of main street makes a fine Pastie! ON

Better be careful...Before you know it you will be moving up to the snow belt... Hushed whiteness is a good description. The monocrome world, all white and grey has a stark beauty to it. When you live in snow country, you don't try to fight it. You design your structures, roads and life...

TTs Chicks Me too.. Born on the Ides of March for me in '67. ON