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An Unforseen Drawback To Water Softeners-Smelly Water! Part 3

Now that we know what the smell is and why my water softener needed to be replaced, I will explain what my plan of attack is.
About 6 months goes by after the new water softener is installed when I get the rotten egg smell. Oh yea, I forgot the water heater needed an new anode [...]

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An Unforseen Drawback To Water Softeners-Smelly Water! Part 2

The last post explained a bit about why my hot water smells. This post will explain why I had to replace my water softener.
About 6 months after chlorinating the well, the smell was back. At that point I figured the anode rod in the hot water heater was completely gone. Before I could figure out [...]

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An Unforseen Drawback To Water Softeners

Here is the scoop:
When I purchased my house in 2004, it had an iron filter/water softener installed under the house. This was my first experience with this system so I knew very little about them, but I soon learned that it would cycle on and off each evening, so I assumed it was doing what [...]

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How to divide ornamental grass

Dividing your ornamental grass is a great way to increase the number of plants you have in your landscape. Another benefit is that the clump of grass you remove the division from now has more room to grow. Ornamental grass has the newest growth on the outside of the clump. The older and weaker portion [...]

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Your government is giving spammers your email-update

Here is a quick update to my last post regarding the release of email addresses by my State Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

I just posted two messages to my State Senators regarding the release of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s newsletter subscriber list per the order of the Maine state Attorney Generals [...]

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Is your government giving your email address to spammers?

Let me first apologize to my loyal readers for this post. Is is not the typical type of posts I write, but the subject has raised my hackles enough that I need to vent, and you need to know this anyway.

I recently received an email from my State Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. They [...]

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How To Make Your Plants Bloom More-Why You Should Be Root Pruning Your Plants

Do your plants have plenty of nutrition, water and light but not performing as well as you had hoped? You might want to think of root pruning, a process that consists of cutting the roots of the plant to promote new root growth and flowering.
Root pruning works by forcing the plant to grow new roots [...]

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New Japanese Beetle Quarantine For 2010 In Colorado

Read the article at CSU Extension website and download the quarantine summary in PDF format.

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Fungi May Hold Key to Reducing Grapefruit Juice Interactions with Medications

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If you have read my previous post about interactions between medications and everyday foods and herbal supplements, you may want to read this article from the USDA website. I have posted it in its entirety below, but be sure to visit their website.

Fungi May Hold Key to Reducing Grapefruit Juice Interactions with Medications
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Asian Longhorned Beetle History

The Smithsonian has a great article on how the Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) was discovered in the US and what is currently being done to eradicate it. It is well worth reading.

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