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Live Christmas trees do have several disadvantages
Last week I reminisced about having a live Christmas tree each year that my grandfather and I would plant immediately after Christmas. As wonderful as live trees are, they do have a few drawbacks. ...
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Associated Press Party seating in a townhouse living room in Santa Monica, Calif.: The cowhide ottoman functions normally as a coffee table but for parties the tray is removed for extra seating. The two Eames stools work well for impromtu seating and garden stool next to the chair can be used either as a seat or surface for drinks.
Ask a Designer: maximize seating for entertaining
The joy of home entertaining at the holidays often comes with a challenge: How do you provide enough seating for a roomful of holiday revelers with just a sofa and a few chairs? Are there creative ...
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Planting live Christmas tree grows fond memories
Christmas is a time of creating memories, sharing and giving. Not only did we have a large family tree each year, in addition we had a small balled tree for me to decorate. Within a week after Chri...
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Associated Press Protection One's mobile app can be used as a home security monitor. Make sure all windows and doors are locked and set your alarm if you have one, when closing up the house for vacation.
Closing up the house for the holidays
The flights have been booked, the suitcases retrieved from the attic and your vacation itinerary has been set. But while your mind may be ready to wander to a faraway land, don’t forget about home ...
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Associated Press Mark Utzig walks the rows where trees should be growing on Nov. 17 in Janesville, Wis. The high temperatures and record drought extensively damaged the tree farm.
Farm continues tradition despite drought
JANESVILLE, Wis.  — It’s one of those special holiday moments: You’re on the floor wrestling with the Christmas tree stand. Each time you get two of the legs in place, the third leg slips out of...
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Consider paperwhites for holiday home fragrance
Each holiday has a fragrance all its own. Christmas is pine needles and cones, spruce, cedar, and at least in our house, paperwhites. The musty fragrance of Ziva or Nineveh lined up along the kitch...
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Protect outdoor plants from fluctuating winter temperatures
It is not the cold winter weather that kills plants in our area but rather the fluctuating winter temperatures. The first few days of January temperatures in the low 40s will find the forsythia and...
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Part of a 75-acre stand of Arundo is mowed on the San Luis Rey River by the Mission Resource Conservation District in 2007 in Bonsall, Calif. California has spent more than $70 million trying to eradicate the invasive, self-propagating perennial. The Biofuels Center for North Carolina in Oxford is promoting Arundo, a known invasive that is already banned in at least three states. Many are comparing Arundo, which can reach heights of 30 feet in a single season, to another aggressive Asian transplant -- the voracious kudzu vine.
The next kudzu?
Part of a 75-acre stand of Arundo is mowed on the San Luis Rey River by the Mission Resource Conservation District in 2007 in Bonsall, Calif. California has spent more than $70 million trying to e...
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Associated Press A Christmas tree lights up the front lawn of The Biltmore Estate Thuesday evening. The tree was bought from a Tennessee family who had planted it in their yard 40 years ago.
Biltmore gives special Christmas tree new life
The Christmas tree Joseph Gray bought his wife back in 1972 grew at the end of their driveway for 40 years, reminding them of the joy of the first holiday season they spent together in their home o...
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Associated Press Crews use a crane to hoist the Norway Spruce tree from its base Tuesday at the home of Joseph Balku in Flanders, N.J. The tree was laid onto a flatbed truck and transported to New York City.
Rock Center Christmas tree survived Sandy
MOUNT OLIVE, N.J.  — The Christmas tree that will dominate New York’s Rockefeller Center survived the winds of Superstorm Sandy that left a path of destruction in a New Jersey town and even its don...
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