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A Final Thought: The Devil Went Down to Georgia
The last week of July, my family and I took the trip I have been looking forward to for several years—going home to Georgia. I had returned only once since my parents died back in 2012-13, when I’d gone alone to visit aging aunts and uncles and to check on some family property we still own. This time, however, we all went—my...
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Clean and cover your gutters now to protect your flowerbeds, basement and foundation from summer and fall rains
One of the most satisfying experiences I can have is sitting on my back porch during a thunderstorm and seeing no water overflowing my gutters. Compare that to just a couple of years ago—before I covered my gutters—when I would see Niagara Falls pour over my gutters to the point that I would break out the extension ladder during the...
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Live life your way at K. Hovnanian’s new Cooper’s Landing development, which offers single-family detached homes with a limited-maintenance lifestyle
My wife and I are turning 60 this year and our “hobby” is gardening. I put “hobby” in quotation marks because it hardly seems like one anymore. It’s beginning to feel forced upon us. The stress of mowing, edging, weeding, planting, fertilizing, mulching, pruning, etc. often prevents us from doing what we really want to do, not to...
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A Final Thought: Happiness Is An Empty Soup Can
If you’re a regular reader of this column, let me recommend a couple of more: My wife recently introduced me to Sean Dietrich’s “Sean of the South” blog. He writes about Southern culture in a way where you always expect him to mention the Cracker Barrel or the Piggly Wiggly. Everything he writes is gentle and touching, and he often brings...
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If you have a clogged gutter, call The Gutter Boys, who are trained in ladder safety and use them every day
Last week, looking out of our upstairs bedroom window, I noticed a large hole at the top of one of the columns on the front of our brick Georgian home. (Yeah, “brick Georgian” sounds like we live in a mansion, but it’s just a small, 1958 colonial with the original pink tile in the upstairs bath. We call it “Mimi-pink.”) “Probably a...
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