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Well, would never thought it would happen. Yesterday afternoon, my wife was working at home with the back door open so our kitten could come in and out. She looks up from her desk in the study to see the kitten and a skunk in the study with her. The sleeping lab, which both the skunk and...

Hello All, Back in November I put in a water line from the well to my barn and a couple of outside water hydrants. I asked for advice at the time on TBN. To make a long story short, bought a 2' bury water hydrant from Tractor Supply, last week came back from the lake and found the...

Hello, We want to insulate and panel the dressing room of our gooseneck horse trailer. I have a pretty good idea on how to do it. But one question: We have a A/C unit installed, should I try to do some kine of vapor barrier??? If so what material to use, a thick plastic sheet between...

OK, after a year and half paying for caller id service, the wife decided to harrase the phone company (Sprint) to see why it wasn't working. After 2 calls and about 2 hrs on the phone they said they would send someone out to take a look. The repairman showed up, did some magic at the box at...

Hello, We have an antenna in the attic, to far out for cable and to cheap for dish. We get every channel very clear but 2. Channel 4 is a little fuzzy and Channel 5 (NBC) gets really bad at times. I currently have a 2-way split in the attic to branch off to 2 rooms. yesterday in one of...

Hello, After we fired the person building our barn a year ago he left 2 scaffolds. Since he has never come back or even tried to call us to get them back I want to get rid of one of them. An electrican wants to trade out some work for one of them, but I have no idea what there value is. They...

How do you create a short cut on the desk top, when clicked brings up the screen saver? Thanks Larry

This is my first attempt at posting a picture. This is one of our pasture mowers at work. The wife is driving. Its a 4 year old model made in Texas. Just starting its career change.

Looking into getting a new computer. Most adds I see are including Windows XP Home as the OS. How stable is this? I currently run Windows 98, how different is XP? Any problems with the software application that I now have running on XP? Larry

Hello, We are getting ready to buy a 3 h gooseneck, aluminum trailer and are wanting to insulate and panel the dressing room. How easy is this to do and what materials are needed? It doesn't seem that it would be that difficult, but thats the way most projects start out. If anyone has an...

My last question awhile back asked about the height of the lights. (Thanks for the responses). Now after getting an estimate and recovering from the sticker shock.... (3 25' poles, 4 lights, fuses, switches, electical run of about 350' price $4500, with me doing the trenching) What type of...

Well, it happened sooner than I thought. I ran a water line to a new barn a couple of weeks ago, everything went OK. Filled in the trench and waited for some rain to pack it down. Hired a guy to do some work on the barn, Finally got some rain along with sleet and ice. While barn guy was...