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To Cold !!!!

Best Regards Tom.

So stay inside with the toys

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem. To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized, merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas

Tom just packed up and left Chicago for Arizona. I bet there's no way he'd consider Iowa. It's 1 deg F outside here right now (Midland, MI). When we retire, it's back to south Texas.

Pete Keillor

Yep i ended up in las vegas ( nevada ) 13 months ago and i have been spoiled by the great weather. The artic circle has no appeal to me what so ever. Gonna be sunny and in the 60's here today.

Best Regards Tom.

We have -22 this morning in North Central Mn. I bet Iowa is quite balmy in comparison this morning.

Steve

I dunno Gunner...one might find oneself literally fighting off a herd of Rattus Norvegicus for some space at the Kerosun heater till the money runs out...

Charles Morrill

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 05:54:17 GMT, Gunner calmly ranted:

Yabbut you'd have to -LIVE- in EyeOhWay fer that. Pass. It's a nice Shop with Attached House, though.

-- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT?

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You guys are such wussies... It says, right down near the bottom, " Will ship to United States ".

Just have him FedEx the whole kit & caboodle to ya!

Wonder how *deep* the land goes?

:) HB

Boy howdy that would be illegle in Oregon. Can't have a commercial business on farmland. The tree huggers would hate you. Jon

Gunner wrote:

Its supposed to be 83 in L.A. today. The girls will be out in their teenies, Christmas shopping.

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem. To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized, merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas

Hell that's about 25% of the current price of my main house here in the UK.

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:50:38 GMT, Gunner calmly ranted:

It's 41F here but I don't mind as I'm inside today.

Minis and bikinis (and those who wear them) are the ONLY thing I miss from LoCal. Then again, that IS a real biggie, isn't it?

SEND JPGS, please.

-- Save the Endangered ROAD NARROWS! -|-

I knew there was a good reason I didnt relocate to Oregon.

Im up in Cowlitz county ( SW Wa. ) in an unzoned area, where pretty much anything goes........

No wonder the farmers are going broke - all hobbies now!

I don't believe the 'can't have a commercial business on farmland' or ranchland. Both are businesses and often multiple businesses exist be be either.

Martin

I didn't look it up, but he may be talking about a zoning/taxation regulation, like we have here in NJ and some other states. Ag land is taxed at a very low rate. Once it's designated agricultural, and you claim agricultural tax rates for it, you can't run some other kind of business there, which would carry a much higher tax rate.

Or maybe that's not it. That would be it if he were talking about my state.

Ed Huntress

New Jersey? Can they still grow things in NJ? I thought after that last dioxin leak, it was pretty tough to get stuff to germinate.

:^)

Maybe cranberries?

Jim

The bat wings on the cranberries is only a minor irritation

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem. To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized, merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas

Same here in the UK. Agricultural land is exempt from all sorts of taxation so long as it is used for "agriculural use only". The effective word is ONLY, which means that it is used for no activity whatsoever that isn't agriculrtural. Even a slight secondary usage, say on one day a year, will lose its exemption status.

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