Rico Loma

Thanks for great details, this brings me back to my first car loan in '80.  Bought a '78 Subaru with low miles, on an eye watering 20% bank loan.  That was a normal rate, but my midnight to 8am job was sufficient.  And folks gnash their teeth about 7 percent these days?

One caveat on oil changes that leaves me a wee bit skeptical: synthetic 10k miles or one year, whichever comes first.  Yes, viscosity is degraded somewhat by time, but it's hard to buy old school oil anymore so.....
I make my own tiny stickers on the window after my driveway oil changes, just to be sure of timing. Your opinion?

Very fine swine, indeed.
Some folks believe boars have an off taste when compared with sows.  What is your opinion on this?

Shocked to hear your chooks disdain cooked potatoes, ours fight over them.  We frequently get plate scrapings from a restaurant nearby, and the veg-rice-shrimp tails are welcomed with open arms......er, wings.  
Have you tried using chicken tractors?  That way they get insects and fresh greens, with no damage to the garden. You can try a simple version, just 2 x 2 wooden frame with wire covering, these have served us well. Primitive but super lightweight, moved easily by one person, easy to follow them with cover crop if you wish.  A great way to enrich soil and expand your garden.  

Is this a DIY effort?  If so please be cautious,  climbing gear and rope for chainsaw efforts are better than being on a ladder.  Cypress native to my state is rock hard, yours might be also, so be ready to stop for sharpening the chain.  Best of luck

If possible, please provide more detail. Height is relative, 20 feet or 40?  Could you post a photo or two?

John, you intrigue me with your post. I should pay more attention to the age of all plumbing components,  and need to think long and hard about  pvc,  pex, even steel.  What is considered best practice for plumbing , for health and for safety?Do folks replace all plumbing after X amount of time? Perhaps replace all bits every 12 years, or wait until they leak?   An opinion,or two  please.

Poplars in Joyce Kilmer

Good to hear that poplar can help you, as a hardwood , as part of a huge hugel, and more.   Still some pockets of old growth poplar in the South, most notably the giants in Joyce Kilmer forest.  A true cathedral in nature

I once was a blazing fast, accurate typist but certainly not now......yes, i made a weird typo. All the keyboards in our house are English/Thai, and I somehow miscued the switch there.   Sounds like you're an aficionado of language, good to hear.
Although my side of the family is more than 90% Scot, my wife has a more complex web on her side. Her maternal grandfather walked all night, hiding during daylight, as he escaped a civil war in China.  From Yunnan through Laos to Thailand, where local government affirmed he could marry ...provided he took the bride's maiden name.   Family still .iving in the house he built solo, all tropical hardwoods.  
Our teen did attend a Thai-English-Chinese school at age 3 and 4.  He is fluent, but I struggle.  My high school days had some Greek,  years of Latin.  University level Russian, some Czech, then Spanish and Portuguese.
That Cyrillic alphabet is simple compared to Thai complexity based on Sanscrit!

Rez, don't give up, before you toss the culprit out, try a remedy. If your stove is 6 inch and the glue is 8, for example, run single wall 6 inch pipe halfway up, or a bit longer.  Then I devised insulation with superwool, blocking off the airspace at top and bottom.  Worked on one project, hope it helps you