Dave Kusel's Guestbook

for 1996
Thank you for visiting.

Loved your pond. It has inspired me to do something on a larger scale as well. We've currently got a 6 x 11 foot pond with a 15 foot stream from a 3 foot cauldron size pool.

I've been a Manning for 38 years. The Manning's I'm from come from Tennesee. My grandfather's name was Tom Manning. My father, Harold, is the only child left out of five children. If you have more information on the Manning name please forward.

I would like for someone to send me the history of Manning. Ricky Manning 38 Crown Point Pauls Valley,OK 73075 Thank you.

Dear Dave: I hope you can help me find potential users of my family business' product: coconut coir and byproducts used for erosion control and drainage. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Please e-mail me at frajah@aol.com Sincerely, Dr. Freddie R. Obligacion

HI! JUST BROWSING THE NET. I WORKED WITH ANTONIO MALLARINO IN 1994 WHEN WE SET UP FERTILITY TRIALS ON LAND YOU FARM SE, NW AND NORTH OF MANNING. SAY HI TO BARRY FOR ME.

WOW! I have spent hundreds of hours searching the net for information and your site TOPS them all for plain English explanations. I also appreciate your suggestions on the http://www.agriculture.com/agtalk/@g_Computing/listmsgs.cgi Keep it up! (Hope it works, too)

GREAT WEB PAGE!!!! I'm a newbie to all this tech stuff so far yours kicks butt!! thanks for the service. Now i know how far i've got to go.{learn} thanks again.

Interesting site - and thank you for being available - I am looking for a place to buy a cider press - can you help me please?

Great web site! Any links to information on Night Crawlers and Earth Worms would be greatly appreciated.

This is a great site! Manning is not far from where I grew up on a farm--Coon Rapids. I really like your pond. I live on 29 acres that has been turned into a demonstration wildife habitat. We have six acres of wildflowers, eight-acre woodlot, 11 acres of native grasses for cover and nesting, two acres of food plots, wildlife travel corridor, thicket, three watering and feeding stations, three brush piles and 40 demonstration plots. Altogether, we've planted more than 8,000 trees and shrubs over the past eight years. In the barn on our property is the headquarters of the WindStar Wildlife Institute, a non-profit, national, conservation organization of which I am the founder. I also facilitate the wildlife habitat discussion group on Successful Farming's Ag Online web site. I've got a question, did you do your site or hire someone to help you. It is really first rate. --Tom Patrick

Just followed a link from @griculture Online wildlife talk. Great page! Like what you've done as far as trees, orchard, pond, etc.

My Grandfather was William Kooiman (I believe he came to the US from Holland when he was a young child. Looks like there is a possibility of a distant relation.) I have several relatives in the northwest corner of Iowa.

Found your site searching for info on apple cider pressing. I just bought an old press and am learning the ropes. Good luck, your farm looks great.

We are delighted to discover that Manning has a web site! I (Ernestine Hinz, Harlyn's wife) just asked our Search vehicle for Manning, Iowa and found you. Please say hello to Harlyn's mother, Toni Hinz, at the Plaza if you see her.

Dave is cool.

WOW !! I'm impressed! ;-) It's the 1st time I came to your homepage. I sure wonder how some of you guys do it? Takes more knowledge of computers then I have! I'll be back!:) Catch ya later!

Dave, Imagine my surprise when I saw a picture of ME on you "friends past .." page. I was searching for hits on "Heithoff". The picture of me with Tom Bromert and Bob Venteicher was with our drivers' training car and instructor in about 1961. I don't remember the instructors's name. I went to school with Barry Kusel; is he your father? My mom sent me an article from the Des Moines Register a couple year's ago about him that I enjoyed. Karla Kusel was also in my class. Cool page!! Bob Heithoff

Nice birthday picture, looks like you were a victim of the dreaded "Trick Candles".

Hey Jay, I think I'm kinda cute back then.
I plead the 5th about now though! (Dave)

Great Idea to link in from the @gonline site. That is how I found your page. Keep up the good work. I am going to put in my favorites folder for later reference Thanks again

Great page, lots of fun

Hey Dave what is new? If you don't remember who I am just ask my my mom there at Caseys. Pretty cool web site I might add to See you later.

I have only been accessing the talk web site for about a month and I wish that I had found it sooner. Thought I would check out your web site as I always check your replies of questions asked. I like your web site, especially the part about it always being under construction. I wish I knew as much as you do about computers as I have only been working with computers about a year and a half ad I have only been on-line since January so there is still lots and lots for me to learn about computers. Is Barry your Dad or a relative? I have heard Barry speak several times at different conferences and I enjoy hearing what he has to say.

Your yield mapping is really interesting although I don't understand exactly how you got the data. We farm (cattle, horses, and hay baling) in East Texas. Just bought a new farm this year, and we're working hard to reclaim it from about 20 years of neglect. Yield mapping would be a really good tool. I'll be back again to learn more. Thanks for a really informative and entertaining page.

Hi Dave, We've only been on the net for two days and your site is the best yet !

Hi Dave, Could you change my E-Mail address in your guest book to. This is not a full internet site, but I can send and receive internet mail. I am starting my own business on 1 November and will therefore be forfeiting my current E-Mail address. Regards Heinz

Hi Heinz, It's changed; Chat with you later (Dave)

Fairly new user of the net & LOVING IT!! We just bought an apple press today at a garage sale. It is in wonderful shape, but now we have to learn how to use it. We have great access to apples in our area. Love your page (and I also think your happy face is really neat!). Help if you can please. Thanks.

I am interested in how much time it took you to complete your pond, or is it complete? I have a pond 4'x 8' and 2' deep and I don't think it will ever be done. Also do you have koi in your pond and if so how do keep them from eating the roots out of your pots? Nice page. I'll be back.

I appreciate the photos you've included in your pages. If you have a minute, could you give me some hints on how to locate a good cider press manufacturer? My searches have yielded little. Thank you so much! Bob Campbell

Hi; I just found your home page and enjoyed the visit. I now live in town, not that I want to be in town, but after my husband passed away I had no choice than to sell the personal and moved to town. We had rented the farm we were on for 17 years. I greatly miss the country and the country way of life. So your page was sure welcome this Sunday morning. As for the lot I have my house on, all the "wildflowers" had to be either cut, mowed, or in some way destoryed, as Corn Poppys and such are NOT permitted in town. Likewise, with birds, I was used to seeing all sorts of different birds, and the beauty of their songs in spring, what a change now. It is the smell of exhaust, and asphalt, in spring and summer, and in winter I can smell the pungent smell of the waste water treatment plant, not that I can't smell it in summer too, it just is more "dis-stink" in winter. What strange curves life throws at a person in their life-time. The farm my husband and I worked so hard on, was sold and resold and is now sporting a new look of city houses, and so I know the beauty of the birds and wildflowers will one day be a thing of the past for the country too. I long to be back in the country and one day may be I will get back. (The city won't let me put a barn up so I can have my horses or keep more than one dog)and let me plant the flowers and types of trees that I want, and attract the types of birds that I woud like) Why people want to move to the country only to have the advantages of the city, I haven't figured out yet.

I love the goofy happy face on your home page!!

Hi Dave, I was surprised to stumble on to your homepage. I am also interested in the Kusel ancestry and origins. I have got a lot of info on the Kusel family tree dating back to the 1600's. I have also got a lot of info of the Kusel ancestry in South Africa, which started in 1857. The Email address is at my work, I also have a private one : 13620@beltel.telkom400.inca.za - Use this one as an alternative. My postal address is P O Box 39242, Moreleta Park, 0044 Pretoria, South Africa for anybody who would like to be in touch. Regards Heinz

The GPS mapping was interesting. Erica (14) was horrified at the sight of your bird mashing the computer - we sometimes wish we could do that to ours!

I was searching for info on precision farming,yield mapping, ect and found your home page. Very infomative.

Nice page cool Frames

Just getting better all the time!

My first time to explore your site. Very interesting and I'll be back again. Thanks a million

Tack för besöket på din hemsida, särskilt GPS-delen imponerade. Once again thanks for a very interesting homepage. I´m very impressed by your yieldmaps etc.Most interesting.

Dave, we've visited before regarding strip till. Was thru Manning a couple of days ago on way to Des Moines. I didn't hear the music that was supposed to play according to other's comments. E-mail me with instructions Tom

I was following some GPS links while Fran rains on us in Southwestern Ont. and came across your site. Have not had time to check it all out yet but I will be back I farm and we are looking into adding yield monitoring and GPS equipment to combine.

I sent you a message on 8-23, not for sure if it got through or not.

First time visit. Haven't checked everything yet.

My wife wants to put up some bat houses , can you send us any info on their construction, and or proper hanging location? Any Info would be appreciated.

Hi Dave! I had no idea! Thanks for tipping me off about your pages. I love your pages and your beautiful pond. I am thinking about starting a "Pond Site" of the week just for fun. Guess who would be first?! Wonderful! Fantastic! Supercalafragelisticexpealidoious! Cooool! Can't wait to add you as a link! Thanks for all the help and support! Pam...."Pam's Puddle!"

WE ARE INTERESTED IN GPS AND PRESISION FARMING IN SOUTH GEORGIA TOO ARE YOU USING GPS FOR SOIL TESTING AND APPLICATION OF FERTILIZER AND LIME ALSO? IF SO WHAT MACHINERY ARE YOU USING TO APPLY WITH PRECISION AND HOW PRECISE DO YOU TRY TO TEST (2 acres 5 acres)? WE ARE GOING TO TRY FOR 2.5 ACRE SOIL TEST PLOTS THIS YEAR. YOUR YEILD DATA IS INTERESTING. DID YOU EXPECT THE RESULTS TO BE AS DIFFERENT FROM ONE SIDE OF THE FIELD TO THE OTHER AS THEY WERE?

Dave, Great page, I haven't looked at everything but I'm sure I will in time. Love the music.

Great pages. Love the music. You can hear the music from Netscape too if you have the crescendo plug-in. Haven't had time to check out all the pages yet but I think yer gettin juss a lil' too creative. Hehehe. Nah. It's great. Have fun!!!! :)

Good info on GPS!

HI DAVE YOUR PAGE LOOKS THE SAME AS IT DOES ON YOUR COMPUTER>

I'm looking for an apple press and breezed through your page. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hey Howard! Great pages here, looks like you're getting this stuff down pat. Couldn't believe the picture of the pool guards! Didn't even know the picture existed! Keep up the good work!

Hello! I found your page because I was tracking down potential family tree references for any "zender" on the web. When I found your reference to Joe Zender, I thought I'd sign your guest book. I'd be interested in hearing back from you about your family and the Zender family.

Hey, Dave, I finally got time to mess around on the Internet. Of course the first thing I did was to look at Nebraska Volleyball things and you were second on the list. Net stuff.

Thanks for blackmailing my Mom into getting online and helping me make connections!! There is life in Cyberspace.

Great homepage!
Looks like you've got quite a place there.
You should use some of the photo's from the global
positioning system as backgrounds for your page.

Tell my Mom that I found your Home Page as per her directions!!!! Great Pix and info. Help her get online so I can talk to her directly, PLEEEASE!! Keep up the good PR work.

Dave thanks for helping me with my home page. Jeff Oliver

Well I finally made it to your home page. I still don't have one of my own ....yet Let me know if you and Brian L. get the sports page up and running.

HI I am trying to get some info about "American Arborvitae" any info that you have would be great. Such as how tall,how wide and how fast they grow in a year as well as any photographs of full grown ones thanks by

hi Dave, Just wanted to say we like your home page--now we know who to call to get help on ours.

Just Seeing If The New Guest book Works OK

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