Rainbow, have fun with the autoharp! Public performance is fun, once you get past the initial fear. I had an autoharp a long time ago; Mom used to yell at me for hitting the strings with her knitting needles with beads on the ends. Then I found out about hammer dulcimers!! Sarajane
Sarajane's Polymer Clay Gallery
You'd have to check with the county about that, and maybe ASCPA or whoever would certify and/or license such a facility, too. She does realize that running a shelter isn't just playing with cute puppies and kittens, doesn't she? Keeping up with just four fairly healthy and happy poochies is a lot of work....
I'm sure the director of such a program would need to be a vet or otherwise qualified to deal with large numbers of potentially sick and/or injured animals, as well as be able to deal with the "business side" of running the place, getting donations, managing employees and volunteers... just FEEDING and cleaning up after all those critters.... There are feral cats around, and coyotes, and you definately don't want feral dogs, so you'd have to have a good, secure fence to keep what's in, in and what's out, out.....
I think you can get some sort of permission to create a refuge for some wild/endangered species (deer, antelope, etc.), but it probably requires getting some sort of certification, and not enanger livestock via diseases. My father had been talking about setting aside some acres behind the house for a "game birds" refuge-- some govt. agency (Fish & Game Dept?) program thingie that gave a tax break. Not sure what happened to that idea. Probably wanted him to fill out too many nosy questionaires. Kaytee "Simplexities" on
One door closes and another opens...
I'm so flighty that everyone we travel I decide that I want to live there! I even go as far as picking up all the homes for sale books you find for free in the grocery marts and the gas stations. They make wonderful bathroom reading. :=)
I think I could be happy living just about anywhere that has 4 seasons.
-- Margie
and kittens, doesn't she? Keeping up with just four fairly healthy and happy poochies is a lot of work...<
Oh yes, she's volunteered at one, so she knows that the work is hard and dirty. I think there is a good chance she'll become a veterinarian, so that avenue would be covered. We have four dogs and two cats ourselves, several of whom have medical conditions so she has a bit of experience caring for sick animals on a daily basis.
Carol in SLC
Greywater usage is severely limited in Calif., although my father did have a couple of drains directly to outside "flower beds", instead of the septic tank. He may have had to re-direct them to the tank-- I don't recall seeing them the last few time I was up there. The water running low problem is due mainly to the recent influx of "grape growers"-- with the SBA loans, etc., they got, they could afford to sink deeper wells than most of the ranchers have, and have more powerful pumps-- and they use so much water that the ground water levels have been depleted, so much so that in some places the land has actually sunk. Lack of dependable irregation water is why my father raised "dry crop" hays-- he used some to get it growing, but otherwise pretty much depended on the rain. He planned planting to mesh with expected rainfall-- and lost crops more than once when the expected rain didn't show.
Kaytee "Simplexities" on
My father was in the process of doing that, too.... Not having all that much luck, though, between the rabbits and the frosts killing off the fruit tree saplings, but he got a lot of shade trees going around the house and along the driveway. And one huge fig tree in the "pocket" in front of the house (U-shaped), between the garage and a bedroom extension.
His first attempt at "tree farming" was at another ranch in the area-- he was going to raise Xmas trees... had Dept of Forestry help... planted 3000 seedlings... then the drought started.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on
This makes me think....In 1962, Beulah was given 100 tiny pine trees. Tiny as in less than 9 inches tall. She chose the healthiest 50 of them and planted them in likely spots in her yard. She figured that she would be happy with the
7 or 8 that grew to maturity. They began cutting them down in 1985. I believe that 38 of them grew to maturity and sucked all the light from her yard, and made the raking chore tremendous. They finally ended up having to have 33 of them taken down professionally. (too close to the house, power lines, concrete....) Cost a fortune.The Use of Foul Language in Written Communication: The Tiny Rumblings of the Ineffectual and Stunted Thinker. The Inability to Think Beyond The Obivious and The Crude. ~~~Henry A. Byrne
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 9:54:06 -0500, KDK wrote (in message ):
And maybe we'd get lucky enough to get Becki for a while. (crossing fingers)
Kathy N-V
Yes. As in "This is interesting, I wonder what else there is to it." A statement of interest. And of course, there's always that element of curiousity. My own curiousity often leads me to ask impertinenet questions. At which point I have to back track and reassure people I won't take offense if they say it's none of my business.
Tina
I understand about water problems. Fairbanks is a "desert". It is also a bowl of ice (permafrost) with dirt on top, so waste water disposal is a major problem.
In my specific location, I also am on an ice lens, and have poor conditions for septic percolation, or for that matter, septic action within the tank because of the temperature. Because of this "ice bowl" there are many harmful elements in the water, like arsenic, so I'm not anxious to dig a deep well for questionable water which at best would require filters and softeners, and which always requires attention for the pump.
I have water delivered to my 1500 gal tank. We use about 800 gal of water a month, as opposed to the 4,000 average for a household of 2. And I go to town for laundry. Actually, the septic is an even bigger problem than the water use. I can spend more money if I want more water, but the land ability to process waste water is finite. I could put the septic system on ajoining property when I get it. But still, too much water will melt holes in the permafrost, forming lakes, or even swallowing houses!
Tina
"Kathy N-V" wrote
I simply moved to a smaller more intimate community.
Tina
"Sjpolyclay" wrote
No, no, no... she needs to come to Calif and try her hand at bead ranching.... There's enough of us here that we can provide her the seed beads to get the first crop in.....
Imagine... 40 acres of pressed glass flower beads... Becki could make TONS of necklaces.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on
I guess it's the reverse of the problem of draining water tables and having houses sink into the empty spots.
Actually, as a Realtor, I've seen houses that have had plumbing leaks that have opened a hole under a house about the foot print of the house and up to
10 feet deep. The house next door to mine has also had this problem. Absentee landlord adjusted the foundation/support, and the plumbing problem just kept eating into the ice lens.In some places, and for the pipeline, they used a sort of refrigerating pillar for supports to keept the ground frozen. The pipeline has wandered half a mile away or more in some places because of unfreezing the ground it's in. (Think of the action of a squirting, snaking garden hose). These "refrigeration pillars" are a very basic application of the change of state property. A liquid warms enough to become gas and rises (which uses calories and lowers temps). Then it condenses into liquid again and falls back down. That's how all refrigerators work, but this is completely simpliied and just continues this cycle without any need for power, producing refrigeration. Can't remember what element is used, but it's not the stuff normal fridges use.
Tina
really nice visual....
The Use of Foul Language in Written Communication: The Tiny Rumblings of the Ineffectual and Stunted Thinker. The Inability to Think Beyond The Obivious and The Crude. ~~~Henry A. Byrne
Sure. Like planting "seed potatoes" or "seed onions".
Tina
Kathy
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :
]My own curiousity often leads me to ask impertinenet questions.
official "me, too" post.
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Kaytee) :
]planted 3000 ]seedlings... then the drought started....
OUCH! well, if you want someone who would like to do that sort of thing, you know where to come . . .
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Kaytee) :
]Probably wanted him ]to fill out too many nosy questionaires.
**sigh** he sounds like a lot like me!----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "KDK" :
]Ok- picture this - you have 5000 Swarovski crystal AB 5301s. You could put ]say 5 in the trailer. :) You know for ripening!!
**snort** KEYBOARD ALERT!----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Kaytee) :
]Imagine... 40 acres of pressed glass flower beads...
now THERE's a picture!!!!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
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