no experience with those birdhouses.. I'd like to know as well. I'm afraid to change my setup too for the next nesting. IF it was my post about the dried mealworms, then your welcome! did you buy the $21.95 big bucket? I didn't see that one before I bought and it was a MUCH better deal. I've also read dried waxGRUB are the most nutritios.. but I don't know if they will eat them. I may give a try or see if I can get a sampling. Anything to give a healthy snack. They may need to be cut up because they look large. Glad dried has worked for you!! It makes it easier for us to help out these lovlies!!

Gary, the server for my link had crashed over the weekend. So sorry! Taos seems to be the biggest Earthship location - the creator of the homes is from the area. Thanks for the link. Some cool looking projects there!

Lucky you! They are steel cut nails. This floor will be relatively easy to get up. Use utility pry bars, sometimes called 'wonder bars'...to get under the flooring and work it free from the subfloor. Once you get the hang of it, you will have little problem loosening the stuff. You can construct large wedges from 2 X 4 stock to drive between the flooring and subfloor to help initially lift the flooring from the subfloor, but you can do it all with wonder bars. You want to lift from the tongue and pull the stuff towards you. The nails will slip out of the pocket it created in the subfloor when it was driven in. Your floor was topnailed through only the first few boards at the wall edge. You will find that the rest are nailed through the tongue at the correct angle. You will split or destroy a few tongues in the process, but don't worry about that. Solid wood flooring with less than perfect tongues is still almost totally installable, but figure about 5% waste when you reinstall. You will have to cut off damaged ends here and there, but most of it will be in good shape. You can purchase an EZ groove router bit (about $30) at a floor materials supply outfit to restore the groove in board ends where you've cut it off, but it is not necessary. You may be able to get the whole thing up and out in a day or two. If you want advice about reinstallation or refinishing, search these archives or post back your questions. Best of luck.

When I lived at the house, it was blue recycle bins that my parents upstairs used and then blue bags. I put newspapers in three blue recyle bags. Tins and glass in another bin but they asked for glass to be separate. We weren't allowed to use anything at all except the blue bins and blue bags so I had to buy a bunch more blue bags and blue boxes. Then put them all in the trunk in my car and take them all down the day before recycle came. We lived way up mountainside and long windy driveway so couldn't use those pull ones that ones that live in city lots can use or that were low down and flat short driveways. Then pick them up when recycle picked up and grabbed the bins and boxes as they were stolen and so I had to mark our name on them and they were then left alone. And then moved to condo and you have to lug it all down to the parkade and into this little room so it means all this unlocking and zillion keys they make you have living here and too much they are full up and then its what to do???? So, I put it all in garbage bags and so if its full the garbage bag gets left on the floor and they can take care of it, nothing else to do. We also have here kitchen compost, don't like the bucket they give us as it stained something else and can't scrub it off. And so I take it down using my white garbage bags from wastebaskets and find that easier to take care of it that way. We all have to find out how to keep it from getting away and for those who can have it all together that is great but when you have to have it everywhere that isn't good. I miss not having recycle bins or bags and regular schedule but here no, its check the room and can I put anything in???? When first moved here no kitchen compost and so the garbage bins were sky high especially on weekends. kathy