Comments on: Farm Living Update

By: cliff

cliff — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:27:47 +0000

Loved this one John.
Re: the jail. The answer is to fire the Sheriff. Then you won’t need a jail.
We have battled that for years here. Housing the prisoners in a neighboring county is easily the best answer in comparison to any new structure. Jails are rediculously expensive to run. We probably have 5 to 15 prisoners at any one time and our bill from the neighboring county is usually just 8 to 12K per month. No way to build and maintain and staff a new jail for that. Keeping them off site does mean higher deputy charges for transport to court and etc.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:45:10 +0000

Well, without implicating anybody in particular, ahem… there was a spell where there was snow on the ground and the indoor plumbing wasn’t working yet, and we had quite a few different people working on the house. There were yellow marks in the snow around our trees at quite a few different places.

Yup, I think we saved on 6 months of port-o-potty rentals for contractors by living out in the country ;-)

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:07:24 +0000

John,
Sounds like you’ve just about got the “city slicker” washed off of you by now. Good observations.

By: Kirklin

Kirklin — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:07:56 +0000

Very good John. Though, you are a bit understated regarding city traffic…you did not include the ten mile back-up/two hour delay behind that 5 car pile-up. Since we live on the main black-topped road out of out our little spot on the main highway we get a lot more “traffic” then you describe. But every once in a while one of us will notice 2 or 3 vehicles fairly close together and yell to the other “Hey, look at the traffic jam!”
Nothing about “relieving yourself” while working outside…:) ???…come on. ‘fess up.