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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Sunday Cooking 2/9/2025
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:21:59 -0500
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On 2/13/2025 1:51 AM, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:41:51 -0500, Michael Trew
> <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/10/2025 3:14 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:34:55 -0500, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Charcoal filter.  Many types available.
>>>
>>> We have some kind of filter. That probably helps a bit. We also boil
>>> the water. That removes the rest of the chlorine smell.
>>
>> You don't notice the chlorine smell eventually.  At least I don't, after
>> years of drinking city tap water.
>>
>> Why move to "suburbia"?  I'd rather hang with the kangroos on several
>> acres, personally.
> 
> Me too, but the maintenance was driving me nuts. Mowing grass, getting
> rid of blown over trees, removing fallen branches, having a broken
> mower fixed again and again, etc. It's 6.5 acres, or 3 football fields
> big, partially with trees, 2 bordering creeks. Sometimes we'd have a
> flood that would bring in trees and branches from upstream. It never
> stopped.
> 

Excellent reason to move.  My last house was only a half acres but it 
still took a good amount of time.  Not so difficult in your 40s but not 
fun in your 70s. A couple of my friends have done the same in recent 
years.