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How to Start a Compost, Part 1

12. April 2010

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If you have a garden, a compost is important. If you are a tightwad like me, and don’t like buying expensive fertilizers, bagged compost, and peat moss every year, a compost pile is REALLY important. Compost is just a fancy word for decomposed waste. Or, as Wikipedia says, “a combination of decomposed plant and animal [...]

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Secure Your Home Before Vacation

27. October 2009

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Secure Your Home Before Vacation

February is a big vacation month for us in the Northeast, but you don’t want to wait until then to prepare your vacation plans. If you will be leaving your home for any length of time on a holiday, you want to be sure that your home and all its contents will be safe (and [...]

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Securing Your Garage Door for a Hurricane

3. September 2009

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My weatherman has been warning us from time to time of “tropical systems” creeping up into the Northern/Western Hemisphere. While hurricanes rarely hit the Northeast (they DO strike us, though– check out this post about the most damaging one to ever hit the U.S., in 1938), they usually do affect our weather. But this post [...]

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Help and Ideas

21. January 2009

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I don’t get any television reception. I don’t miss TV at all, but there are a few shows I’ve seen (at the dentist’s office– they have small TVs for patients in the chairs!) that I wish I could see regularly. One of them is This Old House and the DIY Network. I could watch them [...]

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