Shhhh....

The town is about 50,000, and the total surrounding county about 95,000. Relatively very prosperous community. Low unemployment throughout recession.

FOUL!

Careful trying to revise recent history. Sequestration originated in the white house as a dare to cut everything, even the military. The house and senate took him up on it. End of story...

Thanks for the political commentary. Maybe next time learn about the constitution. Budget and spending bills must originate in the House. Ted Cruz is a Senator. Or are you talking about the sequestration cut that was proposed by our President?

You got me, I can't argue with that.

Without it you would be starving.

Interesting that agriculture still leads the field in good graduate jobs. Feeding a more affluent and growing world is really the most satisfying and important work we have.

The electric one I have is not too big. maybe 15x15" square and 12" high (estimates). It has 5 trays, so you can do a lot of stuff at once if you want. You can really improvise to make them yourself. A piece of screen wire over and under the food to keep bugs off and just set in the sun is the traditional way. I heard…

Good info and I love frozen fruit. However, for all my leftover, very ripe, or cheap in season fruit, I prefer to dry it with a dehydrator. Almost every day I eat a few pieces of last years peach, pear, apple and tomato crops. Just today I decided it was time that the three very ripe bananas on our counter had to go…

For many years I have used the free Faststone image viewer/editor. www.faststone.org/ It is so easy to do all of the things you mentioned* and so much more. Lots of editing tools, plus batch processing/resizing/renaming, simple clone and heal, text, etc. Plus easy "2 click" from anywhere screen capture that loads…

My grandfather used to say "when you wake up, get up". Works great for me. Usually if its before about 5:, I sometimes take a little walk thru the house, maybe out on the back porch a minute. Usually after a couple of minutes the bed looks inviting and I fall right into a sound sleep. If not, some quiet reading will…

The article gave five points to consider. Add 5 more reasons to stay on the farm.

Sorry, but my logic is that over 50% of the vehicles on the road are pickup trucks, large SUVs, and Semi's. When there is the inevitable collision or sideswipe, you want your son in a little light car, or one with it's own mass and energy?

timgray - I also had a VW van with leopard skin print window curtains in my hippy days. It also had a beetle engine from the junkyard ($35). Everything worked except the radio. Had to carry an extra 6v battery and hooked the 12v radio to both batteries to use it. My heater 'worked' but still needed to use that little…

Get the kid the biggest heaviest land yacht you can. They will have a wreck and will need the protection. Bonus #1 - It will use so much gas that they can't afford to go far or often. Bonus #2 - It will be cheap enough that you won't have to buy insurance for it, only liability.

Back in the early 60's our football coach "made" us eat lots of steak. Steak or bacon, it's amazing that science rediscovers what we used to know.

I noticed the same thing, and elected to not enable compression.

Or, a two dollar kitchen timer...

All the more reason to build up resistance. The very poor, people that live on farms and households with pets have far fewer problems with these than the average population. Let your kids play in the dirt, snuggle with animals that spend time outdoors and maybe not be too anal about clean hands before eating. All with…