Last week, I picked up my handmade 16-inch, 12 ppi, hybrid-cut cherry handle tenon saw. Mark Harrell, owner of Bad Axe Tools and saw maker extraordinaire, handed it to me and set up a wood scrap so I could try cutting a tenon.
Courtesy Jeffrey Hamilton/Digital Vision/Thinkstock Light bulbs carrying the Energy Star label will be 30 percent more energy efficient starting in October 2011. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently updated its standards for light fixtures to qualify for the Energy Star label. To qualify for the Energy Star label, light fixtures will need to increase energy efficiency 30 […]
Photo by Audrey Pavia My roosters Mr. Mabel and Mr. Molly get along great—until springtime. The flowers are all blooming on my property: huge pink and white blooms on my cactus, purple and yellow starburst on the native plants around the yard. But the most evident sign of spring for me is the behavior of […]
It’s early spring, and that means that I’m spending a lot of time preparing the soil in the garden beds prior to planting.
I’m checkin’ something off the to-do list, and it’s a big ticket item—how I love it when that happens! I spent yesterday building raised beds and planting my asparagus in them. The lumber for the raised beds has been sitting in the garage since autumn, so it’s nice to have the project completed …
Editors and readers share their favorite ways to eat ice cream for National Ice Cream Month in July.
Photo courtesy Food Bank for Westchester Food Bank for Westchester grows crops that are nutritionally dense and long-lasting. In my cosmopolitan county, it’s hard to imagine that 200,000 go hungry daily. Douglass DeCandia, 25, is a young neighbor who is working to address this problem with the Food Bank for Westchester by growing produce to feed […]
It's been eight years since our son graduated from high school and moved out (for the most part). It's been 7 years and 11 months since my wife first said, "I think it's time to paint his room a different color."
U.S. farmers raise funds to support victims of Japan’s March 2011 earthquake.
Courtesy Nissan The Nissan Leaf topped Kelley Blue Book’s green-car list for 2011. The editors from Kelley Blue Book, the leading provider of new- and used-car information, recently released its list of the top-10 green cars of 2011. This annual list comprises a variety of fuel-efficient vehicles along with detailed EPA-estimated fuel economy numbers and commentary […]
