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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Last month - learned about shortages of chicken wire.
 
Yesterday, getting LP, learned that there are shortages of LP gas equipment 
parts - same reason stated as down at the feed farm supply store about 
chicken wire........  manufacturers bankrupt, and dealers going out of 
business.
 
If anyone is out shopping at small businesses, please start making inquiries, 
casual conversation.  Suspect we need to know if shortages are getting 
widespread or are localized.
 
Anyone finding out about shortages please post.
 
 
 
 


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and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. 
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder 
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” ~ George 
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OK, my find of free old glass turned into a disaster.
 
I spent countless hours removing the various types of materials holding the 
glass in place in the frames, as I needed to remove the small panes to use in 
my cold frame project.
 
Only the slightest pressure on the glass caused small cracks which grew into 
large cracks.  Glass was probably 1930-1940 era...  brittle.
 
Went to local glass store.  Wow - glass is super expensive.  Everyone I 
talked to was thinking $10-$20 each for 2 panes needed.  Wrong, $120 each !!!
 
Coincidently, I noticed used broken panes in the back and asked if they could 
just cut down some of the broken store front windows.  Yep.  Total cost?  
Labor only. $20.  (48x35 panes, time 2 of them...)
 
So.......... anyone needing glass ---- check local window shops and let them 
know you'd be interested in broken panes.  They cut them down to size - takes 
about 10 mins, including sanding off the sharp edges.
 
 
 
Back to swinging hammer, screwing in screws, digging.
 
And hopefully, will get a chance to catch up on the posts....
 
 


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One more thing...skip if not interested in what is going on economically.
 
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/andros/2009/0130.html
 
 
highlights: Pinnochio Bush increased Fed budget by 60% in 8 years,,, Obama is 
increasing it an additional 25% in his first 3 months.
 
US citizens are financially illiterate, and basing their decisions on phoney 
numbers/statistics produced by a government who knows the citizens are 
financially illiterate.
 
Chinese & other foreign investors - purchases of US Treasuries dropping off 
the cliff.  Only buying 1-3 year maturity dates.  (FYI - this is potentially 
a financial nuclear bomb for the US - as all they have to do is not rollover 
at maturity.)
 
A quote from Ayn Rand in the article:
 
""You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out 
of freedom.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for 
without receiving. 
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not 
first take from somebody else. 

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because 
the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets 
the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get 
what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You 
cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
  John Gault/Ayn Rand"
 
UK on its way to follow Iceland.
 
And just how bad things are getting at the banking level,, how close to 
collapse.
 
Stuff like that.
 
 
Ciao
 
 
Been having fun building things.
 
 
 
 


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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder 
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Orwell



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> http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/Make-Biochar-To-Improve-Your-Soil.aspx

Bob,

Thanks for that article. Interesting, I'm out to do some work, but
will read later.

Tip for saving MEN articles:

Click on print.

Article will open in another page, cancel the print window.

Highlight the entire article, copy and paste to your word processor, save.

Saves a lot of time trying to find the article and load it later,
especially if you are on dial-up.

Rob - Va