A perfomance artist (is anybody a 'performance artist' anymore - or is there a hipper term now?) named Steve Stain wrote in 'Posters and Descriptions', a...
Ajax, Was it Charlie, Library-Charlie who lives w/ pugs, that wanted to get rid of dirt? Does he still have the excess? My friend from Pistil garden shop (cool...
... The farmer's almanac has a similiar ploy for rabbits-- if you quarter a few rabbits and spread them out over your garden that seems to keep the varmints...
Peter, That must be a really old Farmer's Almanac that you got that tip about the bunnies from. Nowadays "Beauty without Cruelty" is the prevailing sentiment....
Here is a description of dumb barter, given by Herodotus; "The Carthaginians also tell us that they trade with a race of men who live in a part of Libya beyond...
Advertising clean wouldn't have been truthful it had lots of broken concrete in it. So I found a place to drop it over a cliff in the Overlook neighborhood. ...
campbell2002
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Apr 26, 2003 7:51 pm
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A high school history text which I'm reading says those west africans were probably the Nok. There is sort of an idiotic symetry to the fact that I was just...
campbell2002
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Apr 26, 2003 8:04 pm
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Thanks for the dog hair and orange peel tip. We're having terrible problems with cats digging up our starts. I'm going to use them in conjunction and see what...
campbell2002
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Apr 26, 2003 8:09 pm
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Ill trade hand made drinking glasses for fresh rabit meat. will consider other edible animals. See the wares at the St. Johns parade/ festival May 10th in the...
I've always wanted to raise guinea pigs as a foodcrop. they're so dense and meaty feeling. if you come up w/ any little squealers, let me know- n8 ... From:...
Nate Hemphill
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May 1, 2003 10:43 pm
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The Thrifties are a small section of classified ads that appears Friday, Saturday and Sunday in our local paper. It is cheap to place an ad, and there is a...
It is a magical time. This Saturday Metro will pick up junk appliances, furniture and other detritus and debris left out anywhere on the streets within a 20 ...
When walking along the road or stream bed, or the railroad tracks, check out the gravel once in a while. Gravel deposits accumulate in stream beds much the way...
there's a place out in the eastern regions of the state where a whole valley was turned upside-down in search of the shiny yellow gold. Sumpter, that's the...
Nate Hemphill
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May 27, 2003 7:28 pm
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I would love to go out to Sumpter and other points east someday. My goal this summer is to make to the Willamette National Forrest and survey some of the old ...
jasper is a fine name for people and rocks alike. so is flint. are there other rock names? slate, granite, basalt, shale, andesite, marble? seems like there...
Nate Hemphill
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Jun 5, 2003 8:10 pm
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there's a pile of 2x6 lumber wit ha free sign on it on minnesota Ave just south of killingsworth. maybe 25 to 35 boards about 6 to 8 feet long. if anybody...
All, I found these on craigslist. who needs a huge garage? I'd go look at these, but I'm not available. how sad. ...
Nate Hemphill
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Sep 9, 2003 4:53 pm
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Are there any free boxes, Or other "areas of free exchange" around town? I have a sack of clothes and some books I was going to drop off at People's food ...
Dude staroleum, On N. Mississipi about one block North of its intersection with Skidmore there is an odd triangle of paved park. That is the location of a...
Re: free box locations; ~ Northern Mississippi sounds like a likely area. I may choose some overpass somewhere to be my drop-off point. Things stay dry there. ...
I remember seeing a book in a Whole Earth Catalog a few years ago. The book's title was "Mothership earth" or something similar. It was a whole series...
If you find 3 more you could lash (wire,bolts, or weld) them together, hinge one side and you'd have a cage for a dog or something? Just a tought. I like your...
When I was a little kid, there was a small tire junkyard in my neighborhood, and I would go there and make forts, which were pretty cool because you could ...
Have you ever seen a mexican Jumpin' bean? Is it a bean, an insect, or two little magnets with their positive and negative pole ends stuck so that they are...
I have a basketball hoop to give away... There really is no place for it here, unless I nail it to the side of the camper. But then if somebody dunked, the...