Your eggs are worth far more than walmarts! We sell ours for $3.50/doz and everyone is more than happy with that price. Taste and freshness sells! Next time you are in Walmart, look at the expiry date on the eggs, then count back 60 days and you will know when they were laid. Usually they are pretty old. We've only got 10 hens and there is a waiting list for the eggs. Did you know that many major egg suppliers simply dye the white eggs brown so they can charge more for them? Doesn't that beat all!

I moved with my family to Missouri when I was sixteen. It was to a little university town and we pulled in at two in the morning. I local officer pulled us over and asked us what our business in town was. LOL. We were parked in front of the general store (yes, they do/did exist). I fell in love with the village (they called it a city) instantly and stayed in love with it. I attended university there, married there, helped upkeep a farm there, had my kids there and moved from there twelve years later because of a divorce and relocating closer to family. I still call Missouri "God's country". It's hauntingly beautiful and yes can be brutal all at the same time. I did find it hard to be accepted at first. I found the locals distant at first, but once you fit in..........you are accepted. The employment opportunities outside the large cities are brutal. I found the taxes for everyday living (including tax on food and garbage cans) foreign. The rents were high, and it was hard to eke out a living. If I returned there today with my degree in nursing, I have no doubt I'd find a job about anywhere. It's not a posh place to live, but if you live a simple lifestyle and are interested in quality of life over quantity the areas away from the metropolises are very open to enjoying a good life. I would consider moving back in a heartbeat and miss it still.

In Michigan, sellers are required to provide a standard "disclosure" form which spells out all sorts of things (knowledge of lead-based paint, proximity to an airport, leaky roof, etc.). There is a spot on the disclosure form to spell out any "particulars", such as "refrigerator and stove are not included in the sale". This is where you spell out things of this nature (no pun intended!). When I sold my first house, we offered a $1000 carpeting allowance in the sale price, and this was spelled out in the disclosure form as well as the MLS listing. The buyer wanted a "home warranty" instead, so she put that in her offer -- "home warranty in lieu of carpet allowance". (She had a crappy realtor -- the warranty cost us $350, so we came out ahead by $650 on that one, and she still had to pay for new carpeting besides!) You could simply spell it out: There are numerous perennial plantings throughout the yard, and owner will be removing a, b, c, d, and x, y, z. After plant removal, owner will restore affected areas with quality topsoil fill to the appropriate ground level. You could also include that you will assist the buyer with identifying all plantings and provide care instructions, etc. Or offer to remove (via gardening friends) all perennial plantings so the buyer can grass it all over if they so choose. Be sure to consider the seasons as well -- if you want to take some personal faves with you, but it's January/snowy when you sell, you'll have to get something in writing allowing you to come back in the spring to collect your babies. I also strongly advise you to take pictures (up close and farther away) of all areas of your hard from different angles. (Don't forget to take pics at different seasons as well -- "this is the yard in May, this is the yard in June, this is the yard in July, etc.) Then you can have a photo album be a part of your "contract" (listing, buy/sell agreement, etc.): "Hostas in photo 24-B will be removed by Owner". An album is also helpful if you end up listing during "catalog season" (winter months when we have to be content with looking through seed/plant/gardening supply catalogs b/c of the frozen ground outside). What is a gorgeous flower bed in the summertime looks like just a big ol' pile of dirt come wintertime! (Our house has an inground pool... which we had to accept on the seller's word, b/c it was the middle of January and we couldn't uncover it to take a look at its condition. We were lucky and it really was in decent shape, but some photos would have been much appreciated at the time!)

LOL, Tricia! Wonder what "incident" cause Silly String to be banned! I found a few more from my home state: You can not eat hamburgers on Sunday in St Cloud MN Persuading another person to go to a massage therapist after 11pm is a misdemeanor in Minnetonka MN YouâÂÂre restricted from driving a red car down Lake Street in Minneapolis Officers are required by law to kill all feral cats in Hibbing MN Landing an airplane in city parks is prohibited without permit in Cottage Grove MN Entering Wisconsin with a chicken on your head is prohibited. Oral sex = illegal in Minnesota (bummer) It is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head. Residents of even numbered addresses may not water their plants on odd-numbered days excluding the thirty first day where it applies in Cottage Grove MN It is illegal to paint sparrows to sell them as parakeets. In Duluth, Minnesota it is illegal to allow animals to sleep in a bakery. Linda