I can't promote selling anything on this forum -- couldn't sell chickens by mail order anyway. People come to the farm to pick up the freshly processed poultry. We take them to a state-inspected facility to be butchered. I am not ready for that yet and probably will never be!!!! You can check out my website for more information. Here is a link that might be useful: Tasty Chickens

I've been a boss and an employee. Harry is right, but so is bellarosa. The fact is that company loyalty isn't what it used to be. People do not stay with the same company for decades, at least to the extent they did in the past. And even long time employees who feel strongly loyal can get burned if the company's bottom line requires it. For me, there is a difference between loyalty and business etiquette. Business etiquette means that if an opportunity you cannot pass up requires that you leave your job after 30 days, you do everything you can to give your employer an easy transition. Plenty of notice, assistance in finding a replacement and time with that person to train them or explain the status of your work. The situation is much more complicated if the employer has paid a search firm a fee to find you. That would have to be made right in some fashion, if the search firm had no minimum time requirement before it got paid. Loyalty means you stay for reasons other than money, or you inform your employer of a better offer, and give them the opportunity to match or better it. But loyalty has to be earned. To me, it's a question of years. In the beginning, it's not really an issue. If you were leaving after 30 days because your employer found someone who could do the job better than you, would you be questioning why there was no loyalty to you? Of course not. You'd be angry and upset, but the issue of loyalty would probably not occur to you after such a short time. As an employee, you have no absolute guarantee of permanent employment (unless you have a contract or something like that). You could be the greatest worker on the planet, but you are always expendable. I spent years at a prominent law firm, after turning down partnership in two other firms. I loved my job. I was paid okay, but I had real job satisfaction. My reputation among my peers was exceptional, and I was given incredible opportunities. I acquired an interest (financial) in my cases, and made the firm (and myself) lots of money. The firm was very small. There were 3 partners, and they didn't really want any more. Still, I was happy, and they were wonderful to me. I used to say to my dh that it was the last job I'd have. Then one partner, who was my mentor, decided to retire early. Another decided to take his practice in a different direction, and left. The remaining partner decided to shrink the practice. My mentor had always told me that if they ever made anyone a partner, it would be me. I depended entirely on the mutual loyalty between myself and the firm for my job security. But the remaining partner, despite promising me and two other lawyers that we would now become partners, did not follow through. My efforts earned tens of millions of dollars in fees for the firm over the years, but this remaining partner just couldn't let go. I left. Loyalty only goes so far, even after a decade. I used proper business etiquette, and my departure was smooth. In fact, I retained a business relationship with my old firm, and we shared a number of cases together. We are still friends. My old mentor told me I would look back on my decision and realize it was the best thing I ever did. He was right. I made more money out of the cases I worked on with my old firm than I would have made as an employee there!! LOL!!!! And they knew it! So, so long as you exercised proper business etiquette, and the inconvenience to the employer was minimized (very important not to burn those bridges, if possible!!), then I wouldn't worry. Not after 30 days. You are not that immersed in the work, nor that knowledgeable to be a key employee. And if they had to let you go for economic reasons, the cost and inconvenience to you of being unemployed would not be a part of their decision.

well, i looked up MTD belts, one place says 11/16 by 52 1/4 another place says 5/8 by 53 yet another says 5/8 by 52 1/2 and MTD says 700 x 53 (anyone know what 700 is?) so a 5/8x 53 i bought, designed for a lawn tractor is to long, just don't know where to go next.I am just afraid if i order a MTD 53" ill have same problem. And by the way, rear belt is new. Honestly i feel a 11/16 would over fill front pulley, or is it supposed to? Would it be possibly the rear belt when replaced was a inch to long? I did notice the rear belt tensioner pushes the belt over within a 1/2" of belts other side, or something to that effect LOL... By the slop in a 53"x 5/8, it looks like a 52 would no way be to short, the 53 is really loose. I may just go get a 5/8 x 52 and try it anyway.Can always take it back.

I have a bareroot rose from last year and I have it in front of a side fence to discourage anyone from hopping the fence to get in the back. Someone stepped on it late last fall and broke and bent canes off to the ground and within a few inches. I cut them off and with normal watering it came back this spring, growing off what I thought were dead canes and I didn't see anywhere it could start growing from again. I almost think it's going to be a better rose bush for it. I don't think a bent, damaged cane could sustain the weight roses would put on it. From what you're saying I don't believe the rose will regrow the damage done. I don't really understand where it's broke out but I think you'll have to prune it off and hope to spark new growth with some watering. I'd be putting some Vitamin B1 on it for stress. You might create a well around the rose and water it deeply before you go, maybe it would be enough if it's not too warm where you are. Roses are pretty tough, I've had various accidents with them and thought they'd be toast and they were fine.