Home and Garden
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Choosing the best plants to make your garden a successMar 27, 2015 6:00 am - It won't be long before you find yourself at your favorite garden center to purchase the first plants of the season. Whether you are a list maker who has done her homewo...
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Union Cases were designed for daguerreotypesMar 27, 2015 1:01 am - Q. This is a photo of a picture case that I have. It measures 3 3/4 inches by 3 3/4 inches and is decorated with an intricate design on the top and around the edge. Insi...
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Mortgage complaint line brings attention to detailMar 27, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Move over, Yelp. The federal government's top consumer agency has just begun allowing mortgage borrowers to vent publicly - in full narrative detail - about...
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Home-maintenance duties rise as spring arrivesMar 27, 2015 12:00 am - Now's the time to get caught up on some important maintenance chores that you might not have been able to do over the winter. Q. Our concrete driveway has developed seve...
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Irish Heritage Garden shows off plantings between hardscapesMar 25, 2015 1:00 am - It's called an Irish Heritage Garden, and it features Midwest versions of plants that impart that region's famous beauty — mosses, ajuga, roses, ferns, ivy, river birch,...
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New emerald ash borer website:Mar 24, 2015 1:00 am - A new website created by the University of Illinois Extension contains information and photos to help homeowners to identify whether their trees are infested with the em...
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Solving the junk pile mess next doorMar 24, 2015 1:00 am - Q. This is in response to a reader who wrote to the column a few weeks ago. He had neighbors with yard debris that was making it hard to sell his home. We had a similar ...
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Making the most of your outdoor living spaceMar 22, 2015 7:00 am - It isn't fair that most of the nation has been freezing. It's been a hard year weather-wise, and it could be therapeutic to focus on warmer times. Even though you're col...
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A new view of boomerang millennialsMar 21, 2015 12:01 am - First, a bit of clarification. Boomerangs are young people who have moved out of their parents' home only to move back in. Millennials are those born during the 1980s an...
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Condo board asked to improve building's accessibilityMar 21, 2015 12:00 am - Q. The elevator in my five-story condominium building stops at the first-floor lobby. However, there are three steps that must be navigated to get to the apartments on t...