Pets & Animals > Animal Facts & Resources Arachnid facts: Brown recluse spiders

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There's a good reason that Halloween tradition has kids all across the land stringing up fake spider webs and charming their friends and family by wearing gumball machine plastic spider rings on their fingers - it's spider season! Time for all our eight-legged friends to come marching indoors. If you'd like to make them feel ... More..

Home & Garden > Home Interior Tips for organizing your holiday supplies

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Finally, you've completed the daunting task of getting the holiday decorations out of the basement or attic. You've fought your way through the labyrinth of boxes that invaded your living room and battled whatever dust or spiders (or worse) that made their homes there as you extracted and sorted the good decorations from the ... More..

Home & Garden > Annuals How to start spring seeds indoors for annuals

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Want to test your plant-growing prowess this spring? Why not start your flowers from seed in your own home? Here's how:First, decide what flowers you want in your garden this summer then refer to the list below to see when to get going. Next, pick your seeds. Hybrids, though a bit more expensive, usually lead to a healthier p... More..

Home & Garden > Home Repair (Other) Do-it-herself: Home repair and renovation tips for women

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Shabby Chic: Shab-It YourselfWhat comes to your mind when someone asks you to describe your grandmother's furniture? Would it be Victorian-style chairs with garish red, velvet fabric, heavy draperies that barely admitted the green, glaring light of the winter sun, dark wood carvings, overly frilly doilies, boring paintings of... More..

Home & Garden > Landscaping How your yard pond vision can come to life

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All About Water LiliesHow would it feel to come into this world and discover that your parents had come and gone nearly 2,000 years ago? Weird? Bad? Would you feel like you'd been time-warped into some bizarre science fiction movie? Water lily seeds have been found to be viable for up to this length of time (we'll say it agai... More..

Home & Garden > Pet & Pest Problems How to deal with fruit fly infestations

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In the science world of increasingly powerful microscopes and ever-smaller specimens, fruit flies have become laboratory necessities because of their very short life spans, enormous reproductive abilities and genetic similarities to humans. Millions of fruit flies give their lives every year to any of a wide variety of resear... More..

Home & Garden > Home & Garden (Other) Hydrogen Peroxide household hints

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H2O2! H2O2! H2O2!Have a Holly, Jolly, Hydrogen Peroxide Christmas!May your holiday- fizz impressively on contact- bring renewed life and vigor to your family's branches and vine- be free from all traces of salmonella and other bacterial food poisoning- be filled with the bright smiles of good oral health- leave behind no stai... More..

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1. Do-it-herself: Home repair and renovation tips for women
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3. Arachnid facts: Brown recluse spiders
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