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On 6/23/2025 1:05 PM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Mon Jun 23 12:51:24 2025 Catrike Ryder  wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:09:52 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/23/2025 10:02 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:55:44 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/23/2025 5:51 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:13:33 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:46:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 6/22/2025 12:00 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>>>>>>> My fucking water bill last month was $100 and that was almost entirely from flushing toilets. That, just 15 years ago wouls have been $10.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mine arrived yesterday. $26.10 for the month. You need to move out of
>>>>>>>> that hellhole before your water bills break you!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My last water bill was $80.50.  I live about 60 miles south of Tom. We
>>>>>>> have different water companies.  My water bill has been creeping
>>>>>>> upwards since the last few droughts:...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dig a well....
>>>>>
>>>>> Not easy!
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, this house was the first built on this street back in 1943, part of
>>>>> a large plot of land that was since subdivided into at least six large
>>>>> lots, and it still has nine acres of woods adjacent, with just two
>>>>> houses in those woods.
>>>>>
>>>>> This house has a well right outside the front door, with two pipe stubs
>>>>> protruding through the basement well; but it was attached to "city
>>>>> water" long before we bought the house. I'm told that some houses in
>>>>> this neighborhood still use well water.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the 1980s one friend tried to convince me to resurrect the well to
>>>>> save money, but I couldn't be bothered. I don't think we ever exceeded
>>>>> $50 per month.
>>>>
>>>> I've had well water in four of my homes. The last one was drilled
>>>> while I watched. I miss the taste of well water.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> C'est bon
>>>> Soloman
>>>
>>>
>>> Huge local variance in that.  Down in Manatee County, south
>>> of you, I hated the smell of sulphurous well water. And I've
>>> had very good tasting well water elsewhere.
>>
>> I grew up on a farm in Illinois between Rockford and Beloit. The
>> windmill that pulled water from the old well had been replaced with a
>> new well and an electric pump for the house before I was born, but it
>> still drew water for the horse and cattle tanks. I really miss that
>> place. It's a Target Store today.
>>
>> Last two homes were near Stoughton and then Mt Horeb.  Both had wells
>> and good water. Maybe it was because of all Norwegian people living
>> around those locations.
>>
>> I lived on the boat in Bradenton and couldn't drink city water. City
>> water in Tarpon and St Pete Beach was no better.
>>
>> The city water here sucks and I can only drink it whan it's mixed with
>> my ice tea stuff or with my bike ride Nuun tablets.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Up in the surrounding ranches around here they used windmills to pull water out of wells for the livestock until minerals in the water killed the livestock off.


I have rancher customers who make beef out of grass. No 
rancher is going to risk a steer to untested water. Period.

https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/

(prices quoted are per 100lbs and steers range about 
800~1000 lbs each)

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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