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Yes me a well! lol...
lots to do around here but still have a little time to post some stuff as well.
Got 2 goats today, built all the needed feeders and stuff. put in a new gate on one of the fences and I'm putting in 6 blue berry bushes in the morning. so yes I know what your saying
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I'm in Olympia, the other side of the mountains but hay stuff still grows good here if you don't get to carried away.
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This weekend I get my first two goats! A milkier and her daughter, lost a chick last night, first one out of the twenty I have, kind of sad
May also put in some bing and rainier cherry trees this weekend as well.
Does this board always die off like this for days at a time?
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Dont think your alone there!
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It isn't just Obamacare IMO the freaking system is set up so we pay.
If we do wrong, we pay a fine which is a tax for doing wrong and if we do wright we pay taxes which is realy just a fine for doing right! You can't freaking win for loosing here Lol...
That thing missed me by a mile
It was a nice try though...
I personally would build me an urbin foxhole but then again, that's all I'm really missing right now! Lol...
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Wyoming welder faces $75,000 a day in EPA fines for building pond on his property
Barnini Chakraborty
By Barnini Chakraborty
Published March 14
All Andy Johnson wanted to do was build a stock pond on his sprawling eight-acre Wyoming farm. He and his wife Katie spent hours constructing it, filling it with crystal-clear water, and bringing in brook and brown trout, ducks and geese. It was a place where his horses could drink and graze, and a private playground for his three children.
But instead of enjoying the fruits of his labor, the Wyoming welder says he was harangued by the federal government, stuck in what he calls a petty power play by the Environmental Protection Agency. He claims the agency is now threatening him with civil and criminal penalties – including the threat of a $75,000-a-day fine.
“I have not paid them a dime nor will I,” a defiant Johnson told FoxNews.com. “I will go bankrupt if I have to fighting it. My wife and I built [the pond] together. We put our blood, sweat and tears into it. It was our dream.”
But Johnson may be in for a rude awakening.
The government says he violated the Clean Water Act by building a dam on a creek without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. Further, the EPA claims that material from his pond is being discharged into other waterways. Johnson says he built a stock pond -- a man-made pond meant to attract wildlife -- which is exempt from Clean Water Act regulations.
The property owner says he followed the state rules for a stock pond when he built it in 2012 and has an April 4-dated letter from the Wyoming State Engineer’s Office to prove it.
“Said permit is in good standing and is entitled to be exercised exactly as permitted,” the state agency letter to Johnson said.
But the EPA isn’t backing down and argues they have final say over the issue. They also say Johnson needs to restore the land or face the fines.
Johnson plans to fight. “This goes a lot further than a pond,” he said. “It’s about a person’s rights. I have three little kids. I am not going to roll over and let [the government] tell me what I can do on my land. I followed the rules.”
Johnson says he was “bombarded by hopelessness” when he first received the administrative order from the EPA. He then turned to state lawmakers who fast-tracked his pleas to Wyoming’s two U.S. senators, John Barrasso and Mike Enzi, and Louisiana Sen. David Vitter.
The Republican lawmakers sent a March 12 letter to Nancy Stoner, the EPA’s acting assistant administration for water, saying they were “troubled” by Johnson’s case and demanding the EPA withdraw the compliance order.
“Rather than a sober administration of the Clean Water Act, the Compliance Order reads like a draconian edict of a heavy-handed bureaucracy,” the letter states.
The EPA order on Jan. 30 gave Johnson 30 days to hire a consultant and have him or her assess the impact of the supposed unauthorized discharges. The report was also supposed to include a restoration proposal to be approved by the EPA as well as contain a schedule requiring all work be completed within 60 days of the plan's approval.
If Johnson doesn’t comply -- and he hasn't so far -- he’s subject to $37,500 per day in civil penalties as well as another $37,500 per day in fines for statutory violations.
The senators' letter questioned the argument that Johnson built a dam and not a stock pond.
“Fairness and due process require the EPA base its compliance order on more than an assumption,” they wrote. “Instead of treating Mr. Johnson as guilty until he proves his innocence by demonstrating his entitlement to the Clean Water Act section 404 (f)(1)(C) stock pond exemption, EPA should make its case that a dam was built and that the Section 404 exemption does not apply.”
The EPA told FoxNews.com that it is reviewing the senators' letter. "We will carefully evaluate any additional information received, and all of the facts regarding this case," a spokeswoman for the agency said.
The authority of the EPA has recently been called into question over proposed rule changes that would redefine what bodies of water the government agency will oversee under the Clean Water Act.
The proposed changes would give the agency a say in ponds, lakes, wetlands and any stream -- natural or manmade -- that would have an effect on downstream navigable waters on both public land and private property. “If the compliance order stands as an example of how EPA intends to operate after completing its current ‘waters of the United States’ rulemaking, it should give pause to each and every landowner throughout the country,” the letter states.
For now, the matter remains unresolved. Johnson says he’s not budging and there’s been no indication from the EPA they will withdraw the compliance order.
Regardless of the outcome, Johnson says his legal fight with the government agency is a teachable moment for his kids
“This is showing them that they shouldn’t back down,” Johnson said. “If you need to stand up and fight, you do it.”
If you have an FFL license you can apply to collect automatic weapons and that particular piece would fall into that category -the actual garnade! Just saying...
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We go anywhere from $10-$35
He is right, and I will be buying all I need, but I also love to learn
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People don't grow bonze trees because its easy they do for its relaxing features IMO and that would be exactly why I would spend time screwing around with an apple tree branch! lol...
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Can I take cuttings from say an apple tree and make them grow? Without grafting them on to something else.
I watched a video of a guy who put a plastic pop bottle over a Japanese pear tree branch that was growing straight up, filled it full of dirt, and a few months later cut off the branch, pulled it out of the bottle, the thing was fully rooted! Lol...
Do you think this would work with other types of trees?
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That is great stuff! Thanks for taking the time to help out.
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food forest?
Is the chicken tractor like using bunnys in a moving cage to trim the lawn? I have so much to learn Buds! Lol...
Cheers \_/ and thanks for the help, I can use all I can get ight now Lol...
I was turned on to this page a few days ago by a fellow IHuber and thought I would explain why I'm interested in the page.
30 days ago I bought a 5 acre farm, very run down but I love it!
So in the last 30 days I have built a chicken coop, nesting boxes for 36 chickens, and a big run. Also loaded it with 20 chicks.
Prunded 5 dwarf fruit trees that were so neglected that it will be a few years before they produce again and planted 4 fig trees this weekend.
Will be doing a full 1/2-1 acre garden this year as well as installing a 10k solar system with battery backup.
Well, that is kind of the gist of what I'm currently doing that relates to this board.
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Well sh!t yah! We should put out boys on the front line against a conflict with Russia ASAP, no need to wait to start a world war over something that IMO really isn't any of our business anyway.
P.S. McCain a freaking idiot IMO
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This is what Obama told a Latino audience at a townhall held on March 6 by several Spanish language media networks.
Obama was presented with a question about a family that makes $36,000 a year and found that the cheapest Obamacare plan they could find would cost them $315 a month. This, the family felt, was too expensive and something they could not afford.
The President’s response was chilling. Obama said, “if you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill… it may turn out that, it’s just they haven’t prioritized health care.”
Yes, I was reading that earlier, very strange, why off a drug counselor?
Cheers Buds \_/ and Happy Friday
Well, IMO that's a no brainer!
Pay me is US fiat or GOLD? Well, let me see I'm getting ready to dump 800 billion in USD and crash the dollar Lol... Yes I think I will take the GOLD...
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"sensitive material about the grid crosses the line from transparency to irresponsibility, and gives those who would do us harm a roadmap to achieve malicious designs."
Now that's freaking brilliant IMO and it really could work! F%^K those guys at the federal reserve anyway
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20! Yah I would be pretty bowering IMO
But I know almost every cop for a 150 mile radios so if he finds trouble I might be able to help Lol...
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Tell him it's Patrick...
Sent the request.
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stopped by to check out the board, very cool!
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That is exactly where I am! Lol...
What is he doing here?
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Thanks Buds! I'm on it now...
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Been working on getting this for a few years now, this was number 5 that we put a low ball offer in on! Lol...
And yes, stuff will grow here no problem at all, just trying to be as self sufficient as I can and get my 2 1/2 year old away from town.
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Just walked in from spending all day building nesting boxes and a chicken run for the 20 birds I have now but am building it for 36 + Chickens!
Yesterday it was pruning fruit trees in the pouring rain all day, this 5 acre farm is kicking my ass! Lol...
I love that there is always stuff to do here, but I'm not sure about the fact that it's neverending stuff to do!
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It's been a long day and just don't smell what's cooking! Lol...
Can someone explain what's going on there?
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As hostilities flare in Crimea, U.S. steps up pressure on Russia
Hostilities intensified in Crimea on Saturday as Ukrainian officials accused pro-Russian forces of armed aggression and President Barack Obama rounded up world leaders to demand Russia "de-escalate the situation."
Obama called British, French and Italian leaders and hosted a conference call with the presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the White House said.
But if our government is drinking its own Koolaid wouldn't they just have to add more water and stir to absorb Russias holdings? Just saying! Lol...
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Maybe that is why Einstein didn't know how we would fight WWIII
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The government will never just leave you alone IMO your there cash cow! Lol...
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It will go through the roof IMO
But then again if that is your enemies round just shoot them and take it from them! Hope you like vodka Bert
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I want nothing from them except to be left alone
It's fait IMO the last few nights when I log in here we are on post number 34 for the day, that's my number! Coincidence? I think not Lol...
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I think all those are better than hay we found this!
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb! What were they thinking?
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And that is what I said before, a falsehood!
Found a what? No, I went to the store for lunch.
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Not trying to make you feel bad, just pointing out that all the sh!t I have been talking for the last few years is finally happening for me
I was so bored at the old home town, just nothing to do there.
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Dam iPhone won't sync with the PC tonight or I would post the pictures! Lol...
Turned an old nasty wood shed into a chicken coop this weekend, twelve little chicks in there right now under the heat lamp. Still need to build the nesting boxes and run, but it is already great.
Also went out cutting wood in the backfield and was stalked by six dear the whole time! And then I found a cougar skull next to the tree I was cutting! Love this place Lol...
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