Re: Oil drain - parts price - bug killing & asparagus preparation

Ann wrote:

Jim wrote:
Ann wrote:
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lots of fun with tools produced the result
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after returning
from a coffee break there were still no leaks so I went and did some
chisel plowing and the temperature gauge never went anywhere near as
high as it had been running under that work condition. I'm giving the
glory to God for this repair because He did all that was needed to get
me through it.

Job well done ... both of you. And perhaps one lesson here is to - in
addition to changing the oil - flush the radiator and change the engine
coolant on a regular basis. Corrosion inhibitor does break down over time.

with the cost of that radiator being what it was and with the time
involved doing the repair, I plan to make sure a regular and timely
maintenance schedule is adhered to from now on.



On the plus side, the price of all field crops - not just corn - should be
up this year so you should be able to make the money back.

all preliminary indicators are at this time pointing to a market
willing to pay a bit more than last year for soybeans. biodiesel
is one of the things I feel is helping the soybean farmer.

I was thinking more the supply side. Any place where growing soybeans is
marginal, growers will be tempted to grow corn instead. At lease, that's
what's predicted for wheat and other grains.

I've read those same predictions. with corn having a production
base of over 200 bushels per acre and the current prices where they
are at, a lot of bean acres will be moving to corn in 2007. since I
do not have a corn head for the combine, I'll stay with beans.

http://www.agweb.com/get_article.aspx?src=&pageid=135159
the above URL links to an article providing some insight into what
the recent corn price surge has done to land values.



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the two nights of 28F zapped the azaleas and they had just bloomed.
I'm not going to complain about that because I could have been one
of the local fruit farmers who lost big time.

No North Carolina blueberries this year?

most likely a very large reduction in the harvest with huge
price increases for the few available.


Here, the forsythia had just
started to show yellow so I doubt there was much damage. But it doesn't
follow that there won't be a later frost that will.

I put a forsythia bush in my yard to use as an indicator since
they are always the first to bloom. kind of gets my attention
moved towards the idea of how planting is not that far off.



ps: how'd the chimney project turn out?

Very glad I did it because I'm using noticeably less heating oil. Some
of it is due to the higher average temperature, but otoh there has also
been less snow cover and some long stretches when the temp never got
above freezing.

Ann, I'm glad for whatever reasons that you are able to save some on
your heating cost.

I'm aiming to get to the place where I don't have to have oil delivered
during the winter, as well as save money. Although, since the REC
unloaded the heating oil/propane business, the new owner has been 100%
better about delivering oil when I wanted it rather than when they wanted
to.

it's believed how one of the local heating oil companies has
the ability to see into their customer's checking account. when
the funds are low, they run by and top off the tank and leave you
a bill. me, I'm so very happy to have been set free from that
after switching to a heat pump. when we built this house we used
enough insulation for two houses and qualified for the local
electric company's energy efficiency discount. that coupled with
participation in a time of use program keeps my monthly electric
bills in the area of 80 to 90 dollars. time of use is made possible
with the use of a micro processor based watt hour meter and then
clocking the day into periods of off peak and on peak. off peak
usage is billed at a lower rate.



tomorrow I'm going to attempt to replace the drive disc on my Snapper
lawn mower. from the owner's manual it reads as if it'll be easy to do.

If you mean one for a rear-engine rider, it should be trivial for you
because I've done it. <g> It was a really old Snapper that my mother had
left here. It slipped less but the lesson learned was that it's not an
adequate design for use on hilly lawns.

it's the 21 inch self propelled walk behind. the changing of the
two belts and the rubber drive disc had the result of restoring the
unit to a new like performance. well worth the 30 dollars in parts
though I did find out why the service center wanted 100 dollars to
provide this maintenance service. snap rings can be soooooooooo
much fun.
.

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