Throwing rice is a wedding tradition that has lost steam over the years
You can throw a wedding, but these days you have to be careful what you throw after the nuptials. ...
Ceremonies don't always work out for couples as planned
Even in today’s world of elaborate wedding proposals videotaped by drones followed by carefully choreographed nupt...
DJs keep the music flowing, guests dancing
There aren’t many places these days to do the hokeypokey and the chicken dance. But it does happen at wedding receptions, with ...
Put the blame on capsaicins
Ouch! Who would have thought that vegetable with the demur green skin could contain such bite?
But that's just a myth about peppers, that red...
Take a good look every 5 to 10 years
Homeowners often update or refresh the interior of their homes by changing paint color or furniture, but the design of your lawn prob...
Crops same as in 1700s
In the 17th- and 18th-century garden, herbs were an important part of the vegetable plot, growing side-by-side with peas, carrots and lettuces, and...
If your garden is missing something, perhaps it's height. While it's too late to plant tall-growing delphiniums or hollyhocks, you can achieve this same vertical interes...
Edging adds elegant finish to garden beds
One summer when I couldn’t finish weeding an 80-foot-long border of shrubs and perennials, my mother — an avid English gardener ...
How many of you rinse off dishes first before putting them in the dishwasher?
Since, to get out of cooking, I take care of cleaning up and that involves loading the dish...
Produce looks, tastes good
“Garbage gardening” is an easy and inexpensive way to grow flowers and edibles using kitchen scraps — the pits, seeds and roots that otherwise ...
