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Home and garden events in the Bay Area

Nations prepare for cluster bomb accord
(By MATT SIEGEL, Associated Press Writer) When August's fighting surrounded her cottage in this quiet village, Tamuna Kitiashvili fled to the Georgian capital with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. They returned to find their home covered in what looked like flashlight batteries. The metal cylinders crashed through the roof and lodged in the floorboards. More lay scattered in the garden where ...

Nations prepare for cluster bomb accord
When August's fighting surrounded her cottage in this quiet village, Tamuna Kitiashvili fled to the Georgian capital with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. They returned to find their home covered in what looked like flashlight batteries. The metal cylinders crashed through the roof and lodged in the floorboards. More lay scattered in the garden where they grow vegetables. The cylinders were ...

Royal Palm sells 99 home lots for $5.4M
Taylor Morrison of Florida Inc. purchased 99 home lots at a Winter Garden subdivision from a subsidiary of Royal Palm Homes for $5.4 million.

Snag your apple trees at the Peace Garden
When other folks are planting flower bulbs for spring blooms, the Johnny Appleseeds among us are planting apple trees. A good place to get them is the Peace Garden at Pisgah View Apartments. On Sat., Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to noon, you can dig up and take home an apple tree for $35. It?s the garden?s ?Dig Days,? and partners Bob White and Bill Whipple claim it?s a way to diversify your 401K ? not ...

Home & Garden Calendar
Send items for the home and garden calendar to Polly McDaniel at pmcdaniel@CITIZEN-TIMES.com two weeks before the event. Or mail to McDaniel, Asheville Citizen-Times, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, NC 28802.

Garden Party
The Women?s Home in Montrose has branched out.

Spring Branch welcomes The Women?s Home to neighborhood
Neighbors from Spring Branch welcomed the future Jane Cizik Garden Place, an 88-unit affordable housing complex for women, to their community Saturday

Update on Daphne's Garden
It has been just a little over two months since I planted my vegetable garden. The garden has grown better than I would have imagined! Since planting the garden on September 23rd, 2008 all of the vegetables have grown tremendously with minimal effort.

Rangers welcome Panthers for home-and-home finale
The New York Rangers will aim for a fourth consecutive victory when they host the Florida Panthers this afternoon at Madison Square Garden in the finale of a home-and-home series.

The Garden City Telegram
The Online Edition of the Garden City Telegram features local and national news, sports, videos, local classifieds and obituaries. GCT serves southwest Kansas and is located in Finney County.

Artful Living: A library of garden delights
In a field like gardening, where new books are as numerous as tulips in spring, it's rare to find one that stands out. Gordon Hayward's books, however, are always noteworthy because the Vermont resident is that rare talent: a good garden designer and a good teacher, in print as well as in person -- as those who've attended his presentations in Madison can attest. But "Art and the Gardener: Fine ...

Euroa Garden Club
The Annual General Meeting of was held in the beautiful garden of Isabel and Peter Lynch, where Isabel's roses were putting on a great show. A lovely afternoon tea was held, listening to five ladies playing beautiful classical music.

Rangers welcome Panthers for home-and-home finale
The New York Rangers will aim for a fourth consecutive victory when they host the Florida Panthers this afternoon at Madison Square Garden in the finale of a home-and-home series. The Rangers, who lead the Atlantic Division and are tied with Boston for the top spot in the Eastern Conference with 36 points, will try today for their longest winning streak since also posting four straight ...

A DIY Checklist for Winterizing the Exterior of Your Home
(ARA) -The cold winter season brings destructive snow, ice and freezing temperatures to homeowners in the Snow Belt states each year and proper preparation is essential. There are numerous tasks that you, the homeowner, can do to protect and prepare the exterior of your home before winter sets in.

To catch a hummingbird
JoAnn LaMuth was working in her backyard garden in October when she heard the buzzing chirp of a hummingbird's wings. She ran inside her Bexley home and mixed up a batch of sugar water for her feeder, which she had put away weeks earlier in preparation for winter.

Home & Garden Briefs: Nov. 29, 2008
? Christmas tour set in Cottonwood ? College to sell holiday plants ? Garden club offers wreaths, garlands

OC Doc in Sexual Battery Case Out on Bail
A doctor arrested at his Garden Grove home on suspicion of sexual battery by fraud is free on $100,000 bail.

Teens accused of home burglary
JUNEAU Two Mayville teens accused of stealing nearly $800 in coins from a town of Theresa home have been charged. Kyle Klebs, 19, and James Krueger III, 17, both of Mayville, were each charged during their initial appearance Monday in Dodge County Circuit Court with one count of burglary to a dwelling. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 12 years imprisonment and up to a $25,000 fine. Dale ...

Hard times bring home the joys of home cooking
As times get tougher and reconfigured budgets force a cutback on eating out, taking out and buying expensive processed foods, a growing number of American families must now rely more on home cooking.