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    Have I gone overboard on Recycling/Reuse?

    I've2 for seats out around the chicken yards , 3 with strawberries in them out back , useing 4 kitchen sink discards for nest boxes in the hen houses ,,and a couple of old bathroom sinks also . Have an old bathtub in the duck pen. shucks recycling is a way of life around here .
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    pain relief ??

    has anyone here heard of or tried the , raisin/gin , mix for joint pain
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    Does your garden ACTUALLY save you $ ?

    Last year I spent about $50 in my 50 x 125 ft garden space - got i small cooking of snap beans and nothing else , the year before that it was worse , I built chicken yards in the garden spot and pay my son's seed bill and supply the tiller / planter / chicken compost and he does...
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    College students leaving town

    I do real estate repair for a living in a college town , and you wouldn't believe the things they just move out and leave in the house at the end of a quater . Lots and lots of kitchen stuff and clothes text books that the college bookstore will buy back , beer caigs ( deposit)and the...
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    WHO has converted to CFLs??

    We use them here inside , they won't work on a dusk till dawn switch in the outside fixtures , and the idiots in washington have outlawed regular bulbs after 2014 or so ,, so then what will we use to keep the pump and chicks warm in winter , I'm tired of this NANNY syndrome...
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    Wind or Solar?

    I'm just across the line here in south Ga. and neither will work here ,, got too many shade trees for solar and wind enough to do any good for power only happens during storms . Even back in the 'good old days ' there were very few windmills around here they had to use hand...
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    55 Gallon Barrel

    You could make a plywood lid for it with a 2x4 nailed to the bottom side to keep it on and use it for feed storage .
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    "plastic" feed bags

    I just built 2 connected chicken houses here in South Ga . and used old deck flooring for the walls with 1 inch spaces between them and am going to open up the plastic bags and staple them on the sides this winter .
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    tried to make my own mayo..... :(

    been readin for several hours but I just have to ask this ,,, what is a stick blender ?? will my sunbeam stationery mixer work ?
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