Solar energy is wonderful, and I like to use it around the house a lot. It provides the electricity for our home, including enough energy to charge an electric car. It provides illumination, most of our hot water and we even use it occasionally to cook delicious meals. Even though it all comes from the sun, each form of use is unique.
Whether square, round or oblong, pillows do more than cushion your head or provide extra support for your back.
Clark County Cooperative Extension is presenting a workshop titled “Gardening in Small Places: Using Native and Desert Adapted Plants in the Landscape” from 8 a.m. to noon Sept. 21 at the Lifelong Learning Center, 8050 Paradise Road.
I’d like to share one of the oldest tricks in the decorating book with you. It’s a secret weapon that can give a home a sense of atmosphere without going to heroic lengths. It’s not old fashioned and it’s never gone out of style and probably never will.
Q: I grow tomatoes in boxes I have built. I know one is supposed to plant tomatoes in a different place every year and I don’t want to just throw away the dirt in these boxes. I don’t have many places to put this dirt so my question is, “Can I put this dirt in my compost bins?” I have two cement block bins. What, if anything, can I do to that dirt to use it in the same boxes next year at planting time? It’s expensive to buy new dirt and I am poor.
About 20 years ago, two antiques experts wrote a book titled “Fantasy Furniture.” It spawned a new style based on past ones.
