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2021 Home Improvement & Outdoor Living Show | News

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Make Plans now to Attend the 2021 Home Improvement & Outdoor Living Show

At the 2021 Home Improvement & Outdoor Living Show you’ll find Exhibitors showcasing their products and services for improving your home or building a new home.   You’ll find everything to help in making improvements from small to large projects, flooring, doors and windows, roofing, energy conservation, Hurricane Protection, new kitchens and bathrooms, pools, and sunrooms.  Plus, we will also showcase home builders from our area who can quote a much-needed remodel or build you a brand, new home.

And it doesn’t stop with the home itself, people

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Home reality shows far from reality | Local News

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Reality TV home improvement shows are enjoyable to watch, so long as you’re not pulled into believing their alternative reality.

I’ve been a fan of “This Old House” since it first aired with original host Bob Vila in 1979. It had gifted woodworkers such as Norm Abram and other craftsmen who respected renovating old homes to their historical origins. What they did and the show still does are restorations beyond what most homeowners would undertake — by which I mean you’d need gobs of money to do it.

I remember an early show with a tall two-story house from the

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‘World’s Worst Invasive Weed’ Sold at Many U.S. Garden Centers | Smart News

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A homeowner heads to the garden center to buy ornamental grass for the yard. They plant it, thinking it is a good way to green things up—only to find the new variety soon takes over the garden bed and spreads to other yards.

It’s a common problem with cogongrass—labeled one of “the world’s worst invasive weeds” by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and banned by federal legislation. It’s also a growing issue, reports a new study by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Researchers discovered that cogongrass and nearly 1,300 other invasive plants are currently

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BBB CONSUMER TIPS: Tips for home improvement projects | News

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Whether you are remodeling your home, making needed repairs, or sprucing things up to put your house on the market, the following tips will help make your next home improvement project a success:

• Come up with a budget and stick to it. Home improvement projects can get expensive, fast. If you don’t want to break the bank, create a realistic budget to figure out how much you can spend ahead of time. Be upfront with contractors you hire about how much you can spend on a project as well.



• Think about the pros and cons of DIY projects.

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Senegalese plant circular gardens in Green Wall defence | Senegal News

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Every night, Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves. But at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job – hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden.

Kamara, 47, believes the garden will prove even more important than the bakery in the future for feeding his extended family, including 25 children, and other residents of Boki Dawe, a Senegalese town near the border with Mauritania.

He is part of a project that aims to create hundreds of such gardens – known as “Tolou Keur”

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