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    Over due update

    NJ sounds like IL.! Idiots in office are doing everything opposite of what most of you and I would concider common sence. How do you stimulate job growth and hiring by raising corporate taxes???! Oy! don't get me started on this!!! While it's true, once we do get settled into a new place, one of...
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    Over due update

    I do have to agree with the school systems with ya! Today for example, I was doing yet another lesson on counting change. My daughter just couldn't do it. She insisted on having a "number grid" in order to figure out two different ways of making 43 cents using pennies, nickles and dimes (they're...
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    Flower Pot Smoker

    First time I seen/heard about this, was watching the FoodNetwork on cable...Alton brown did a show on it. If you check out youtube you'll find how to make one. jax
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    Over due update

    Hello folks! It's been nearly 6 moths since I've posted on here. And quite a bit has happened in that time... If you all recall I had lost my mother late 2009. I knew I was going to loose the home that she left me because of no will and that I was upside down due to the economy and lack of...
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    Asian carp fishing?

    If I ever get down there. Just comeing back a bit, before I move. Yes, I'm moving in iwth my fiance and our daughter....and her mother. While I'd still like to move out of the city, finace wants to hang on to her parents house. It's a nice house and all, but just the lay out and such, can't...
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    Update

    Been nearly 2 months since I posted. Have been rather busy and all. Finnally had the estate sale the weekend after laborday. Went well, made quite a bit, but had to stick it all into my truck, which is marginally working at best. Then, just when I thought I could start to straighten things...
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    oven controls turned "zombie back from grave"- Q for electronics folks

    Sounds like the board the LCD is mounted on is blown. Suggestion, if either you or hubby feel comfie enough, skip the repair fees, google the make and modle of the range. See if you can order that part, and print out a diagram of your unit. By printing out how the unit is assembled, you can...
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    Bow Huntin

    Stupid laws.... A few years back I ran into this situation. I was behind on my childsupport. Wasn't working, that's easy to do. So once I got back to work I called the state to let them know, and give them my employer's information so they can do automatic withdrawls from my pay check. This is...
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    Vodka (and other liquor) Question

    A simple wash can be made by using just sugar and water. Ferment with champaign yeast and that'll get you a high alcohol "wine" at around 17-19% once the fermentation is done. XPC's right, you can run this through a pot still a few times for a really clean "vodka". A reflux still, that does...
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    Safe rooms?

    Ya know I had asked a while back about a root cellar. And often I understand folks use rootcellars as a storm shelter too. Make sense, why spend the extra effort and costs building two very simlar buildings. Whether it's next year, or ten years from now, I'm thinking along the lines of buying a...
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    Safe rooms?

    Reason I mentioned which side, most of you your newer construction multi floored (even 2 story) apartment building have concrete floors and cinderblock walls. I know about cities being hit. I remember watching when I belive it was Memphis had a couple hit. Here, just south of me in the late...
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    Turkey story...

    Since I am interested in some day raising my own chickens for both eggs and meat, I read with fascination the thread that Curly_Kate started asking about which meat hybreds to raise. Someone mentioned raising turkey's and that reminded me of a story my grandparents told me. In 1977, my...
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    Safe rooms?

    I know I got a lot on my plate right now. But after reading lalaland's post about storms I'm wondering.... Where I'm interested in moving is well known for strong storms and tornado's. Oddly, Illinois isn't offically in "tornado alley". Yet our state holds the record of the most tornado's...
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    What to do now?

    This is rather embarassing to admit. They guy that was going to do the work on my truck and had offered me a job, was a conman. I lost all the money I paid him for parts for the truck and he conned me into accepting bad checks for various reasons, for which he wanted cash back. This guy read me...
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    What to do now?

    Try to make this short and to the point(s). When I joined this forum, I had asked about what I could do about the house I sort of inherited. My mother had cancer, passed away last fall, didn't leave a will and I wasn't working. Because of the economy, I'm way upside down on the home, not to...
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    Rabbit Butchering Question

    To answere you questions about why the meat had rough edges first. Muscle tissue is much like a rubber band. Because they streached and such. Once you cut them, they release the tension that is kept on them by the bone and tendons. Because they're different lengths that have different tentsions...
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    Anyone else shop at a dollar store?

    I don't shop there, but I'd love to get a job there. I've 20 some odd years of retail manglement, and they pay really well. (Dollar Tree) for managers. Just wish I had a working vehicle, somewhat of a requirment for a manager's position. Seems because of these hard times, these dollar type...
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    Garage Sale Ideas--Updates=D

    Not done yet, but gettin VERY close with the main sale. Last week or so I've been having "pre-sale-estate sale", by appointment for this or that. Have a guy buying all my canning stuff tomorro. Tried building a table using strips of ply wood for legs, didn't work out so well. Have to think of...
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    Best firestarter

    I have to mention this. I also belong to another forum. I'm not sure if I can post a link here becuase of the CoC I agreed to, to join here. But I can mention the video's that show some good examples of firemaking. Just do a google search for the Woodsmaster dvd's, made by Ron Hood. I can't say...
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    im going to try and quit smoking once again

    I'd like to quit as well... Two questions. Is there any suppliment or herbal or otherwise that can cleanse the system out so the withdrawl isn't so bad. And once you pass the 72 hour mark, is there another suppliment or something one can use to clean all the junk out of your lungs?
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