There's a rule in Pennsylvania: If you call J.U.L.S. -- Joint Underground Location Service -- (Pronnounced like "Jewels".) no less than 5 days in advance of your dig they will come to your property and mark all of the utility lines. If you hit a utility line because they mismarked something you don't pay. If they DID properly mark the lines or if you don't call them before you dig then YOU have to pay for the repairs. If you call them at least 5 days in advance and they don't show or at least notify you when they will be there, you are off the hook.

The service is free to residential customers. If you are a contractor then you pay a fee every year.

All the water inside the insulated tank takes a while to cool down. You either have to use some hot water or wait for it to cool. Every day I go down to the basement I check the temperature and turn it down another 1/2 notch. When it's the right temperature I'll leave well enough alone. I don't want the water to be too hot but I do like it "good and hot". (No kids...yet. ) The way I see it if the water is a bit hotter, you turn on more cold water so you will use less and the hot water lasts longer. 140 deg. sounds good to me!

Some set them for 125 if they have kids around.

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Randy, if those bushes you're going to rip out are really large or deep-rooted, you might want to check on underground utility locations first. If the roots are wrapped around a buried pipe or something, you could run into trouble.

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Don't pull them out, check to see who rents goats locally.

They are very efficient machines......

"Honey! I bought a new lawn mower!"
"But you already have one."
"Not like THIS one!"... B-a-a-a-a-a!!!!
"WHAT the &$%@!!!"

Now HERE's the really funny part!
When I was a kid, my dad did just that! He was driving down the road one day and saw a goat for sale. He turned a "U-ey" in the middle of the road (slamming me and my brother against the side of the bed of the pickup) went back and bought this billy goat. He tied up the goat in the back of the pickup and headed home. I remember the exchange between my mom and dad pretty clearly. It was pretty much like above except us two kids were screaming, "He's COOL! We want to keep him!" I remember my mother just turned away and walked back into the house with her head in her hands.

We kept the goat for a while. It DID make quite a good lawn mower. Dad would just "stake him out" in a different part of the yard every day. No fuss, no muss! Free fertilizer too! When the goat started getting ornery we had to get rid of it.

One day we were having a family picnic. It was a windy day. My grandmother (My dad's mother-in-law) was wearing a head scarf. The wind blew it off so she bent over to pick it up.

I'm SURE you can tell what comes next. Can't you?

Well, what she didn't realize was that she was right inside the goat's "rope circle". When she bent over she presented a target that no self-respecting billy goat could ever resist! BAM!! Grandma went head over heals! You can fill in the rest with your imagination. (You'd probably be right! )

All I can say is that the goat was gone the very next day.

Last October I was in Prague for a holiday, now some of the buildings there are OLD!