From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian )
Subject: Re: Rural Life?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 05:25:06 GMT

In <1av2sdINNjfq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ag301@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tricia Schmidt) writes:


>Well, it's a long story, but somehow I've ended up in the country
>for three months to see if I could stand living this way.  So far
>I'm 50/50 on it - and I'm hoping some of the more experienced rural

darn but you sound more like 2:98 for city life to me.

>people can help me out with some problems.

so how much property do you have and i'll give you $20/acre for it.

>1)  There are no city services - which means that no nice people 
>come out here and pick up our garbage every week.  I've heard talk

are the people not nice? why not? i can't understand why anyone
would not be nice to you given the wonderful attitude you are
displaying. oh, or do you mean that no one has tried to get you signed
up for trash pickup?

>about "compost piles" though.  What is a compost pile?  How do you

see the other post for a very informative responce to this.

>make and maintain one?  

thats easy just live. you will generate the items required, oh, 
unless you live on pizzas and microwave food items? nah, you seem
like the nice kind of person who uses fresh veggies and such.

>2)  There are no city services here - which means our water comes
>from a well.  The farm is surrounded by about 60 acres of feed corn,
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
so? i've got news for you. i'll bet that the city you came from
used a well also.

>which is treated with chemicals in the spring.  Is the water safe?
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
can't tell from here. get it tested.

>Also, we've got a septic on the other side of the house from the
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
good idea. much better than right over the well.

>well.  I've heard about chemicals for it, but am not sure what they

umm. a septic works by microbiology, not chemical, cleaning.

>are or how they should be used?

usage? oh thats easy, not at all.

>3)  There are no city laws here.  Which means that people can wander
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
yea ain't that nice :-)

>around with guns and shoot small animals.  A few days ago I saw

yea ain't that nice. heck i'll bet they even shoot large animals.
oh, it's not deer season yet?

>some hunters walking down the road with dead squirrels.  Since then

much better than smooshing them with the car.

>I haven't seen our squirrel, George.  Is there anything I can do?

put his picture on a ... naw thats not polite. btw how do you know
it was a george? was he leashed? you know some people get upset
at pets roaming the neighborhood terrorizing the livestock and such.

>Any help anyone can offer on these questions will be greatly 
>appreciated.  The best help would be if about a million or so people
>moved in around here and turned it into a city though :)  I never

you know we could save the energy and you could move to the city.
if the million or so moved to there it would look like the city
so why noy be a good conservationest and move you. far easier.

>realized how much I depended on City Services.  One time the well

so are you saying that you can do none of this by yourself? surly
you are not that stupid? you seem more intellegent than that.

>stopped running, and to my surprise no city services people came
>rushing out to help us.  We had to wait until the next day when
>the well repair person came.  

i'll bet if you offered enough compensation you would have seen them
sooner.

>Thanks!  

your welcome

>(Next week, questions about the cows )

they are the (around here anyway) large white and black animals that give
milk, well accually the farmers take the milk. the cows don't just 
hand it over. oh and later in their life then the farmer sells them to
someone in the city who proceeds to murder it, grind it up, and sell
it as hamburger.

enjoy

bill pociengel
--
llbi locgeenpi " i'm a little confused right now"