Archive : July 2013

There’s nothing easy about gardening

  The  many, many ways that gardening and outdoor jobs can go wrong: • If you spend hours trying to adjust the engine of your lawn mower so that it runs smoothly, it will work fine on that occasion. But ...

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A dictionary is your friend

  Monique Bohemier wrote: “You often mention slang, informal usage and standard English. What are these terms all about?” Let’s answer that query by talking about dictionaries. The f...

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Warmer weather reheats housing market

  A solid MLS® sales performance in June finished off a strong second quarter result and brought year-to-date sales closer to the downside risk of a four per cent drop factored into the annual 2013 MLS® market forecast...

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The indestructible Twinkie

  In Da Boom, an episode of the animated series, Family Guy, the Griffins hide in their home’s basement in an anticipation of world-ending disaster striking due to the Y2K bug. At midnight, when the calendar switched fro...

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Happenings on the July calender

  Here are a few bits of trivia to ponder as the hammock sways gently in the summer breeze, hamburgers sizzle on the barbecue and mosquitoes prepare for a tasty meal of their own.  Major League Baseball&rsquo...

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Laughter is the best medicine

  While I was watching one of the endless re-runs of Murder She Wrote, I thought how formulaic this murder series is. Jessica Fletcher invariably discovers some clue overlooked by detectives. Then, 15 minutes before the progra...

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