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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

This is the housing situation where I am now.
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/06/temecula-15-of-homes-reo-or-in.html
"Today, said Rich Johnston, Temecula's deputy director of building and safety 
and code enforcement, as many as 15% of Temecula's 22,500 single-family homes 
are bank-owned or in some stage of foreclosure."

It is exacerbated by the long commute to anywhere and a total lack of any 
sort of mass transportation.  Temecula is built around the I-15 Freeway that 
leads south to San Diego and North to Riverside and freeways into Orange 
County and Los Angles.  The only local jobs are service.  I expect to pay 
around $4.30 a gallon when I fill this morning.
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/06/oil-house-prices-and-exurban-lifestyle.html
"``It was drive until you qualify'' for a mortgage, says Robert Lang, 
director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, 
Virginia. ``You can't do that anymore. Your cost of transportation will spike 
too much.''"

Rural workers are hit even worse, some are quitting jobs they can no longer 
afford to drive to.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/09gas.html

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Walnuts, living with
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We use old chest freezers.  They last WAY longer than most things.  They
make bending less of a chore.  They are usually free.  They are a form of
recycling.  They are insulated and all I have to do is put an old window
over a couple of have cold frames to start plants.  And, believe it or not,
they can be quite pretty <g>

Youngest and I have painted them to look like stone or bricks.  Doesn't take
much time at all.  Just use that skinny masking tape to mark out your
"grout" lines and then paint.  Pull off the tape and voila.  When we got
bored, we painted on some ivy and flowers on a few of them.  We plant
flowers around the bases, marigolds and other flowers that bugs don't like
and bee balm and others that good bugs do like.  In the middle of the season
it looks more like an English garden than a veggie garden.

Oh, and we got most of the paint for free at the dump recycling place or
real cheap at the paint store's returns and "oops" section.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Walnuts, living with


>
> On Jun 8, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> This, on Google:
>>
>> _Black Walnut Toxicity_
>> (http://www.wvu.edu/~Agexten/hortcult/fruits/blkwalnt.htm)
>
> I've been looking for good sources; that appears to be quite good. Now
> trying to figure where to move apples to. My "clearing" here is
> surrounded by black walnuts. I have two neighbors that greedily
> collect the nuts. Years ago I left some squirrel-planted sprouts to
> grow, about a dozen of them are now big enough for small boards.
>
> I now have even stronger motivation to build raised beds. To prevent
> root penetration I am musing about solid bottoms in the ferrocement
> beds. For drainage, horizontal weep holes just above path surface.
> That would also preclude moles.
>
> A garden of really big containers. Who woulda thunk?
>
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