Animals in the House: Springtime pet care
Ah, the sounds of spring: birdsong in the morning, lawn mowers and weed whackers in the afternoon, and cats screaming all night long. What is up with that?! It’s high season for cats in season — meaning any “intact” female cat is either in heat, just had a heat, or is about to have a [...]
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By Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) — two of the most common and dreaded illnesses in America may share a connection, with new research suggesting that having insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes raises your risk of developing the brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. After adjusting for other risk factors, the [...]
Puget Ridge’s family spirit: co-op living in W. Seattle
WHEN ANNIE Fischburg turned 14, her 50 family members threw her a “coming of age” party at Puget Ridge Cohousing. To celebrate Fischburg’s interest in East Indian culture, the community put up a large tent, decorated with Indian tapestries and lights, then gathered to share stories and memories of the young woman they’d known for [...]
Best money-saving tech
Cutting-edge gadgets have much in common with fresh seafood — sky-high prices and a second-hand market that has people turning their noses up. so if you’re fed up of throwing your hard-earned cash into technology’s bottomless money pit, check out CNET UK’s guide to penny-pinching gizmos that are worth their weight in scallops. Millions of [...]
Ballsy Bethanie's jacket racquet
DO the genteel lawns of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club really need this sort of crap? is SW19 so tired from the weight of 125 years of tradition that it requires an extreme makeover? It's enough to make you choke on your Pimm's. Have to admit though, Bethanie Mattek-Sands’ outfit does take [...]
Store struggles to satisfy demand for chain saws
Even before the painstaking cleanup from last week’s killer tornadoes began, chain saws were in high demand as fallen trees had to be cut so that rescuers could get into devastated neighborhoods and people could get back to their homes. “we reopened the store Wednesday night (April 27) after the storms hit,” said Evelyn Ellis, [...]
The “Best Time to Buy” New Riding Mowers
The “best Time to Buy” new Riding Mowers. Mail-in Rebates up to $250 on Qualifying Mowers. Bolingbrook, IL (Vocus/PRWEB) March 03, 2011 from now until March 31, 2011, customers can save up to $250.00 via mail-in rebate on qualifying Simplicity or Snapper brand rear engine riding mowers, tractors or zero turn mowers at MowersDirect.com. Customers [...]
Lawn Boy 10640 20-Inch 6.75-Gross-Torque Briggs & Stratton Gas-Powered Push Lawn Mower -
LawnBoy 10640 20-Inch 6.75-Gross-Torque Briggs & Stratton Gas-Powered Push LawnMower i’ll start from beginning. went to home depot pulled box offrack and $240 bucks later its in my driveway. after opening box it was built in5 minutes without any tools. filled crankcase with 20 oz. of included oil and put in somegas and it fired [...]
Go Green: Help The Environment, Help Pike County Sheltered Workshop
Pike Shop Director Offers Tips for Recycling Efforts April M. Fronick • ’s this for a statistic: last year the Pike County Sheltered Workshop kept 44 semi-tractor loads of recyclable waste out of the landfill. That only represents one percent of the possible recycling effort in Pike County. The other 99 percent was put in [...]
Business: Could electric cars be the wave of the future?
Bob Dunigan is all charged up about electric cars. The co-owner of Schwing Electrical Supply, which has locations across Long Island, including Riverhead, feels so strongly that the electric car industry is going to provide a jolt of revenue for local electricians that he held a seminar Tuesday at the Riverhead Polish Hall just to [...]