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No, No, No! You folks are missing the most important step!! Get the dang egg(s) out of the refrigerator 1/2 hour before you even think about starting the mayo! There is no substitute for the instructions about "room temperature".

Aw geez! Don't talk to me about septic systems! When we called in the city to give us permission to install a septic system we got a gal who had just graduated three weeks before! She was terribly nervous because we are on the type of soil that was the front end of a moving glacier--part sand...

I have the perfect place to put a lawn--have been thinking about it for years! This place is where the old lean-to garage was and the soil took in lots of gas and oil--that was way back in 1982. Since then some weeds have grown over it and it is hard as rock. Last year I had it sprayed for...

Hello again: I just came from the lumber yard and was given these three different colors of plexiglass to use as a roof over the small seed shed my DD and her husband built for me several years ago. It is 8ft square and currently has no roof! The squirrels love it! I plan to put a roof on this...

Thanks for your support and encouragement--all of you! I will get this done this summer! Say prayers !

G'day you all in Australia. OMG! how we miss Australia and our friends there-it i good to hear from you! I am right now getting ready to buy my first birdies and to lay out the plan for several more in years to come. My biggest difficulty is that I live in Zone 4 USDA Map. We hit -40F just...

Good on you! Your optimism gives me encouragement! We had --40(F) last week for several nights!! We have almost no snow--maybe 2ft has fallen since October and most of that has washed away or melted in the warm temperatures we had before we had the extreme cold. Right now I am looking at...

Thank you both so much! I really appreciate your knowledge. I will take some quiet time in January to try to figure the amount of water needed and let you know what I come up with! In the meantime Happy Holidays to all!

We live in very cold country with high snows in the winter. I would like to build a half a greenhouse. That is to say, Birdie's large beds and put a glass roof over the top as if I was building the entire greenhouse. Put up the posts and roof and cover the roof with glass. This would work well...

Thank you. That helps to shed some light (no pun intended) on the subject and gives me something to think about! I just received this advertisement in my email--funny how those things are working now days! Here is the link to local advertising...

Thank you all for your comments. I know nothing about electricity. We are here in MT and my local electric company tells me to just "go ahead and do your thing--we don't bill and don't credit". That doesn't make sense to me, but we are so far away it might be easier for them to get rid of us ! ...

I am beginning to agree with you about renting. I am going to check our local rental yard and see what they offer. My hope is that I can find a two seater UTV that will have the proper type of hitch attachment! On another subject: you may be interested to know that we had a 3 day window of...

Thank you so much for your thoughts they are very helpful! I will re-read tomorrow and ask more questions at my local grain/feed shop. I think what is most bothersome is that I have so many smaller jobs that once I get them done right I won't need to do them again--but they are so diverse! I...

Dear Mandy: Thank you for taking the time to find this very helpful publication.

I am still getting rained on down here in western Montana. I have two questions for the readers here: Is it better to have a small tractor such as yours and try to rent the various attachments as needed, or is it better to have a UTV with a pin hitch? We have a steep hillside to deal with on...

I would love to do wood planters, however we have prairie gophers (prairie dogs) and I am afraid that they will get an easy foothold on the outside wood and just climb up into the bed. I have been thinking of doing 27 inch bed, or maybe 32. Do you think these little beasts will be a problem?

Hello All: Desperately waiting for spring here in MT. I am writing to ask about pumps. I have a small incline to reach my vegetable garden. It's length is about 60ft at a small angle. I can get the water up to the top, but then I have to move the water another 40 feet along the flat land to the...

What goes under the beds?

Re: American timber prices. Our prices went out of control on wood this spring (on all supplies also). Have a DSIL in the construction business and he tells me that our lumber prices which used to be over the top, but they have now come down. Today a 2 X4 that is 6ft long will be about $4.00...