By HENRY HOMEYER The Gardening Guy As the saying goes, “Spring has sprung.” In my garden, daffodils are blooming and tulips are on the way. My peas are planted. But how do you know when to plant your veggies and tender annual flowers? It’s not just about the last frost[Read More…]
Lifestyles
A House, A Home, An Exhibit
By ANN ST. MARTIN STOUT Leaves Are Free “A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built of love and dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Thinking back on my childhood home I can remember the very design of the wallpaper next to my bed. My mother was[Read More…]
Meet dog superstars and their owners in ‘Dogland’
By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER The Bookworm Sez “Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show” by Tommy Tomlinson c.2024, Avid Reader Press / $28.99 / 231 pages The big blue ribbon is almost the size of your head. It took serious yardage to make it, and the[Read More…]
Sunshine Report: Begin Before You’re Ready!
By JAY LUCAS The Sunshine Report Don’t Wait for the Perfect Moment… We all have dreams. Important things we would like to accomplish. We all also have doubts. Anxieties and fears as we contemplate our path forward. We hesitate, we plan and too often, we procrastinate. Telling ourselves that ‘it’s[Read More…]
Hollywood gossip and more in ‘The Fixer’
By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER The Bookworm Sez “The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars and Marilyn” by Josh Young and Manfred Westphal c.2024, Grand Central / $34 / 336 pages Why are you so nosy? The answer to that is, well, because there’s so much to know! You can learn a lot[Read More…]
Quittin’ Time
By BECKY NELSON Bramblings Quittin’ time. It has a nice ring to it, right? Time to pop a cold brew, have a warm cup of tea, sit down to a hearty meal or a light snack, pick up a book or a newspaper or watch a movie or some tv[Read More…]
Lessons from the grackle: Less common on purpose
By BILL CHAISSON Of a Feather Two weeks ago in Florida, as we watched boat-tailed grackles fly by one after the other, my wife remarked, “I’ve heard they are becoming less common.” When I looked into it, I found that she had heard about the common grackle (Quiscalus quiscala). The[Read More…]
History of the Boston Post Cane
By MARY CARTER Living History One hundred and fifteen years ago, over 20,000 newspapers shared the day’s events with households across America. The Boston Post was one such contender. The Boston Post was founded in 1831 by William Beals and Charles Gordon Greene. Greene, born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, was[Read More…]
Bramblings: Weather Effects
By BECKY NELSON If you are a gardener with spring bulbs planted, ready to cheer our world with bright blooms this spring, you probably had a few crocuses already in bloom and a mass of daffodils with bloom buds swollen and ready to pop when this last storm came. Here,[Read More…]
The Outside Story: The Tale of a Lake Tsunami
By DECAN MCCABE The sharpest contrast between rivers and lakes is in water movement. While rivers flow inexorably downhill, lake water movement is more subtle. Anyone who has weathered a storm on a lake, however, can attest that less consistent water movement does not mean no water movement at all.[Read More…]