Brian Elfert
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The kitchen had no ductwork when I bought the house. I had to have ductwork installed by an HVAC company. They were able to run to the outside wall...

My cabinets are probably 12" deep. My Whirlpool microwave actually sticks out a decent amount from the cabinets. I would just as well have a range...

No, did not have the same issue. It just makes sense to put something on the wall to move the mounting bracket forward.

I'm pretty sure whatever type of grass I have is growing more than one inch a week. I hadn't mowed for about ten days until I mowed this weekend. I...

I walked in a local Memorial Day parade yesterday that ended at a local cemetery. There was a ceremony at the cemetery complete with gun salute and...

There have been stretches of I-80 in the west in the past where the right lane is so rough that I switched to driving in the left lane. Thankfully,...

A former co-worker moved to Phoenix. I visited him out there is 2021 when I was in town to visit some other friends of mine. He has maybe 300...

I would just mount it to 3/4" plywood if that makes it work. You can still run screws or lag bolts through the plywood into studs.

It is common here to see tractors on regular highways. The county highway I drive on nearly every day has tractors on it from time to time. It was...

I have a 24 HP diesel riding mower with a tier 4 final engine. It is about as large as you can these days without getting into DPF. (Not that I...

The local newspaper costs nearly that much for a year for all seven days. Advertising used to pay 80% of the cost of a newspaper subscription and...

A lot of people go "up north" for the weekend and many of them take I-94 out of, and back into, the metro area. Most of that stretch was two lanes...

In 2021 I was driving my large motorhome on a two lane highway across New Mexico. A jerk in a car ahead of me couldn't decide what speed to drive. ...

A lot of people like to bitch about people not going the speed limit. The speed limit is a limit, not a requirement or a minimum. A vehicle in the...

I work for one of the larger metro newspapers in the USA. We are breaking even at best. No big profit like in the old days. The only reason we...

My mother has flower gardens plus a 40x50 vegetable garden. She probably averages eight hours a day tending to her garden from late April until mid...

My father got transferred to Anaheim, California in 1978. The elementary school was a block away from our house. I recall a few days walking...

If every car had a manual transmission don't you think the kids would learn how to drive a manual? It is the scarcity of manual transmissions that...

My parent's neighbor built a fence decades ago. The fence was built the the boards alternating which side the board is on. Both sides are the good...

How many areas of the country do they cut grass for 50 weeks per year? I figure the mowing season here in Minnesota is around 20 weeks per year if I...

They are getting $75 or more for a 1/2 acre property, and they have enough customers to do forty lawns per day? I know a lot of these guys hustle. ...

They have a less expensive model with smaller battery. That one is probably closer to the discontinued model.

Wells Fargo has banks all over Minnesota and Wisconsin now since they merged with Norwest in 1998. I have lived in Minnesota my entire life and I...

I have a UPS ground package coming that was accidentally sent to Colorado instead of Minnesota. It was supposed to be delivered on Friday, but is...

Engines over 25 HP are exempt from the ban. Commercial mowing companies will simply buy mowers with engines at least 25 HP. It appears diesel...

Menards also carries Wagos and has for a number of years.

I have used a Battery Tender on the start batteries in my converted bus since 2007. I put in new batteries in 2010 and they still start the engine...

I thought the military considered anyone who served in the military during a time of war to be a veteran?

I have a friend who is quite overweight and his knees are so bad he says he can't walk much. His doctors won't do knee replacement until he loses a...

I had a concrete floating slab constructed last year for the large garage I am building this year. The county assessor already added $4,000 to my...