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I have a 30+ year old Ariens rider mower that used to be my parents'. My mother gave it to me 3-4 years ago after it sitting unused for several years. Other than needing to re-weld a couple of the mounting flanges on the deck, replacing the battery and some fiddling with the carb I haven't had...

Is there a refrigerator nearby? Some make some really odd noises while in defrost cycle.

Looks like you have way more free time than I do. :D

Agree. RA was one of the companies I had in mind when I made my earlier post about shipping being a way of padding the bottom line. Dunno if this is still the case, but a few years ago it seemed that if you ordered multiple items, they always came from multiple warehouses, so you got dinged...

Same here. Fortunately, the chief aesthetics officer is OK with that. :) Ours is what she refers to as "north country green", more or less as you described. Actually, most of it seems to grow at a fairly even rate, it doesn't get scraggly like some do.

I need a little more truck than that, but if it was available in an extended cab with longer bed I'd still consider it.

Haven't come across any at my present place, though there was quite a bit of it at my previous house. Fortunately I'm only mildly affected by it. Well, except for the one time I was using a string trimmer while wearing shorts and apparently hit a patch. 😢 Matter of fact, I think that was when...

I've never used Messick's, but agree that some companies see shipping as an easy way to pad the bottom line. Speaking of ridiculous shipping prices, maybe 15 years ago when I put a new metal roof on my garage I ordered the panels from HD (was cheaper online plus the store didn't stock the size...

Never heard of using Dawn, but Tide seems to work to relieve it. I've only used the powder (don't even know if they still make it), can't speak for liquid. Other brands of laundry detergent had mixed results, though all worked to a degree.

I'm only one state over from CalG, but I can't get it to grow here no matter what I do. Tried it in several places in the yard but didn't do very well in any of them. Apparently doesn't like the soil or something.

Musk is all about the hype. WTF is a "giga" factory? Another meaningless term that makes something sound more special than it is. People lose jobs and taxes evaporate when ANY large business closes/cuts back. Why should Tesla employees be any different than those at other companies?

Dumb question, but where would you send a tick to be tested?

No sales tax in my state, so I'm not sure how this works, are you saying that the sales tax isn't consistent from one town to another? Is your zipcode the same as the town with the higher tax rate? I run into something similar when ordering something online...my town shares a zipcode with a...

Does UPS use subcontractors (outside maybe of Christmas rush)? Anything I've ever received shipped UPS was delivered by a guy in a standard brown truck.

I dunno, at least we don't have chiggers. From what I hear they're way worse than blackflies. At least blackflies are only around for 3-4 weeks, pretty much gone by first week in June. Of course, their lifespan corresponds with the first "nice" weather of the year too, just when you want to...