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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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Got moved into the new house ( any one who emailed or PM;d me, please bare with me I just got the internet back and connection is slow)

Some pics to get started. I will get some more of the fruit trees and garden area soon as well as the butcher room and barn :thumbsup:

I have peach, apple, pear and plum trees, a rubarb batch, black berries and all kinds of goodies growing. The chickens, ducks and rabbits will be coming soon :)

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The pup after he jumped in the pond
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And the pup after I made him follow the quad back to the house and get a bath
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The new house on top the hill. Pic taken down by the pond looking up the fields
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Looks like I screwed up the sleeping puppy pic.

Lets try again

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What a beautiful place!!!!! :)
 
Thank you Lucille.

It is not in Weirton. I just moved to Ohio. I have not changed my profile yet.
 
I'm curious, how did you find such a treasure, so far from where you used to live? For a while I was looking through the US for country property, there are some beautiful places to live in this country.
 
It is actually only about 2 hours from where I use to live.

There was a couple other places that were looked at before this one. When I found it it had been on the market 4 days, drove down 2 days later and put in a bid. Did not even make it home before they called and said the offer was accepted. The real issues did not start till after the bank got involved but that was the story for the hell forum.

It has 7 acres. So it is not huge by an means but just what I wanted.

Hopefully I can get some sunshine the next few days and get some more pics taken. I need some ID help on some of the trees planted around the yard.
 
I hope to get some more pics this weekend... Hope to is the key word.

I got the rabbit hutches and part of the chicken coop power washed last night. I hope to get them painted this weekend at some point in time.

And then get some pics of the trees so I can hopfully figure out which ones are which.
 
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