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Planting bulbs now will yield spring’s first breaths of color
Posted: November 7, 2009 5:14 a.m.Nothing is prettier than a field of daffodils blowing in the breeze, or a bed of bright red tulips, or the sweet smell of purple or pink hyacinths. Spring-blooming bulbs are one of the easiest ways to add color to the landscape with very little effort.
Dig-free garden is low-sweat task
Posted: November 7, 2009 4:16 a.m.If you are up for starting a new garden, vegetable or ornamental, but can’t stand the thought of all that digging, you’re in luck.
Ask the expert
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:18 a.m.I promised myself last year that we’d do what we could to our home to make it more comfortable this year. It stayed cold indoors all last winter and we hated it.
CLICK & CLACK’S CAR TALK
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:11 a.m.DEAR TOM AND RAY: My husband actually said this: “If you ask Click and Clack, and they say I did something wrong, I’ll stop doing it.” So here we go: When my husband backs my new Toyota minivan out of our driveway (he’s backing it down a hill), he doesn’t use the brakes.
In the garden
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:10 a.m.Q I have about 10 giant red tip [photinias] on one side of my house that need to be trimmed. I want to do a major trimming from 10 feet down to about 8 feet. Is it too late in the year to cut them back?
Personal space
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:09 a.m.Jon Etienne Mourot Where I live: Kyle Boswell and I live in a French country-style house in Leawood. We gutted the house when we bought it and we’re just now finishing up the final details.
Tools & toys
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:08 a.m.Torto Ceiling Fan What’s to love: The Fanimation fan has just three blades and a different kind of airflow pattern.
ON CHRISTIANITY
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:07 a.m.DEAR REV. GRAHAM: I wish I could be friendly and outgoing like other people are, but I’ve always been a very shy person, and whenever I get in a group I just clam up and don’t say anything. Can God change my personality? — D.E.
OTUS THE HEAD CAT Ban on fall turkey hunt overturned by petition
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:06 a.m.Dear Otus, I was the one who, after the court ruled in favor of the Game and Fish Commission’s arbitrary, capricious, myopic and officious ban, organized the petition drive to restore our God-given right to hunt turkeys in the fall.
Keep it clean
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:05 a.m.How can I get rid of the stickiness on my kitchen cabinets, especially around the knobs and handles? Kitchen cabinets, and other surfaces, collect grease, dirt, food particles and moisture more than other parts of the house, especially around handles, knobs and pulls.
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
Posted: November 7, 2009 3 a.m.Happy birthday. You will be an agent for change.This month your own example of improved fi tness and fresh style will attract interest and followers. You’ll share your insights in December and really make people think.
HELPFUL HINTS
Posted: November 7, 2009 2:59 a.m.DEAR HELOISE: A while ago, you had a column about many pets losing their homes in the foreclosure crisis, and how adopting one of these homeless pets could end up adding a very special member to your family.
Almanacs appeal to wider audience than just farmers
Posted: November 7, 2009 2:58 a.m.Here are three words you might expect to cause instant seizure with an Internet search engine: Old. Farmer’s. Almanac.
Check your knowledge
Posted: November 7, 2009 2:56 a.m.1. Who plays the role of Mitch Albom in the 1999 movie Tuesdays With Morrie, a film adapted from the book of the same name written by Albom? 2.What was Charles Lindbergh’s nickname after his record flight across the Atlantic in 1927?
Northwest Personal Space
Diana Michelle Hausam
Posted: November 6, 2009 10:53 p.m.Photographer Diana Michelle Hausam tells why the darkroom at Nadine Baum Studios is her favorite space.