The Anniston Star > Lifestyle > Home & Garden http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/as-lifestyle.htm Ideas for the home and garden from The Anniston Star. StarScraper 1.45 Copyright (c)2008 Consolidated Publishing. All rights reserved. http://www.annistonstar.com/rss/images/as-logo_home.gif 14450 The Anniston Star > Lifestyle > Home & Garden http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/as-lifestyle.htm Home and garden en-us 20 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 11 May 2008 16:18:02 CDT Brett Buckner: Only a pick-up will make this garden grow http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-bbucknercol-8e09v3635.htm I fear the sod may have been the final straw. 'Course if that didn't do it, the four busted bags of wet composted manure left in the trunk over an especially warm weekend are sure to. http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-bbucknercol-8e09v3635.htm Sun, 11 May 2008 16:18:02 CDT Planting summer annuals is both easy and rewarding http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-bbuckner-8e09v3702.htm What Melissa Wembley lacks in vision, she more than makes up for in imagination. Pushing a rusted two-wheeled cart loaded with trailing purple petunias, narrow-leafed zinnias and hot-pink begonias around B & B Nursery, Wembley can see the beautiful outdoor showplace her yard will soon become ... soon as she finds her checkbook. http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-bbuckner-8e09v3702.htm Sun, 11 May 2008 16:18:02 CDT Rooms and halls http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-0-8e09v3419.htm We have an old house, and the front door enters into a mudroom/laundry room off the kitchen. How do you make an entrance like this more inviting as well as very functional? How do you make it flow into the galley-style kitchen? http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-0-8e09v3419.htm Sun, 11 May 2008 16:18:02 CDT Even housework and gardening ease distress http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-0-8e09v3349.htm Regular exercise has been linked to mental health benefits. Does it matter what that exercise consists of? A study analyzed data on 19,842 people 16 and older (average age, 45). http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-0-8e09v3349.htm Sun, 11 May 2008 16:18:02 CDT Kovels: Antiques and collecting http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-0-8e09v3331.htm Kewpie is the name of a nude, elf like baby with fat cheeks, wide eyes, a topknot and tiny blue wings. Rose O'Neill drew the first Kewpies for a Ladies' Home Journal story in 1909. The drawings were turned into 3-D designs for Kewpie dolls and figurines by 1911. http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-home-0511-0-8e09v3331.htm Sun, 11 May 2008 16:18:02 CDT