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You're doing what I am on the verge of doing. Congrats! I will be watching your progress with unnatural interest because I like to learn from other people's mistakes... /forums/images/icons/wink.gif ...

It wasn't the one. Between the first time I saw it and the second, the neighbor had a survey done-- and the property we were looking at got a lot smaller, by magic. Ouch.

The search continues....

Hi,

Might be buying a farm this weekend. The house needs a new LP tank, as the old one was sold at auction.

Should I buy or lease? How much does one of those things cost? Where should it be...

Hey,

After months of looking I may have found "the one". Going out tomorrow with the family. I saw it Thursday.

The house needs some help, but is basically sound. It has a creek and pond, the...

I agree. I'm still looking for a place. One thing I notice the same between city and country is -real estate agents-. Difficult to deal with! Grr.......

I'll keep y'all posted on when/where I get...

Well, I read a 300 page book on the topic. I won't be building with bales. The ease and inexpensiveness that originally attracted me to the idea just aren't there if you don't live in a desert... it...

I was wondering if anybody had put one up, or lived in one.

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Thaddeus

Haha, eroding mountains away by accident in a computer model is nothing. I knew a guy who was modelling prairie biology. He got one of his constants wrong and, in a simulated 5 year period, covered...

Don't -have- to, but there's a conversion loss I wouldn't want to incur. Waste not, want not.

Hey,

I'm designing the house that will go on my land.

I want to be off the grid if I can manage it.

I am very intrigued by ground source heat pumps. These things run a big coil of...

IIRC, the Chaos model came out just about the time I was finishing up my minor in Environmental Systems modelling at the UW Madison. I read a couple of books on it and came to class, and asked my...

Pat, I'm tracking right with you.

And I'll kill a varmint if it's eating my crops. One of the things on my shopping list is a new shotgun. BoomBoom.

I was down in Harmony, Minnesota, walking...

Pat:

For an exposition of the theory, with weather as a prime point of discussion, see 'Chaos: Making a New Science' by James Gleick. Very readable.

For compact florescents (ballasts and all)...

I try to reduce my energy consumption by 10% a year. Not too hard... for the first 5 years in a house. I made it this year. Year 6 usually gets harder.

The technology gets cheaper and cheaper....

Homer Simpson: "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... Bark-y."

40 tons of free carbon a second are being released into the atmosphere. Up until the very recent past, this was never the case in the history of the planet.

No independant (read, not Industry...

The mechanism that is causing it is well understood: the intoduction of a lot of excess carbon in the atmosphere. You can test the mechanism in your own home.

Take 2 glass enclosures. In one, put...

It's pointless to argue. One of us is right and the other wrong.
Our great-grandchildren will know for sure. I hope for their sake I am wrong, because nobody's going to do a thing about it anyway.

Global warming is real. It's not a question of belief anymore. No responsible scientist believes otherwise. The Insurance underwriters acknowledge it and are factoring it in to their probability...

I hate tornados. I've always been fortunate enough to live in houses that have basements, and we and the kids religiously go there to the Southwest corner when the sirens blow. Wisconsin and...

There's a huge floor fight going on between the US and the European Union because a lot of the EU member countries make cheese from raw milk and the US won't let them import it. And apparently...

Frogs are pretty sensitive to toxins. Figures, because their skin is basically a mucous membrane, anything nasty in the water is going to be absorbed. I suspect they will shortly discover some...

I think the area around Reedsburg, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, is one of the most beautiful in the world. The soil there will grow anything and the people are the salt of the earth... none nicer. I'd...

Let's just say I'm adjusting my expectations around any potential income I might ever realize. And maybe the safest assumption here is that it will be a cost center for a minimum of 15 years, until...

Downloaded, and am reading, the Wisconsin Tax rules on Ag land.
Seem kind of convoluted. /forums/images/icons/confused.gif