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Protect one of the largest parts of your home -- the roof -- with regular cleaning and inspection. This should be done at least twice a year, in fall to get your roof in shape for the coldweather and again in spring to see how it has held up to winter's hardships. More frequent checkups may be necessary after windstorms or heavy snowfalls. Read the terms of your homeowner's insurance policy and your roofing warranty carefully to see what roof maintenance is required. For the best care, set up a professional maintenance plan through your roofing contractor.

Roof Safety Tips

If you are planning to clean your roof yourself, start working from the top downward. Utilize a sturdy ladder and work with a buddy, or at least let someone know that you are cleaning from atop the ladder. Protect your hands with work gloves and your eyes with goggles. Avoid walking on the roof surface where possible; however, if you must do so, make sure you are wearing rubber-soled shoes. Watch out for power lines and stay off the roof during a rainfall to minimize the risk of electric shock.

On Top of Your Roof

What to look out for:

The Roofing Material Itself

Check for loose, cracked, curled, blistered, or missing shingles, which will need to be repaired or replaced.

Look for rot or insect infestation in the wood.

Inspect the flashing in the area of the chimney, vents, and exhaust pipes. Be on the alert for bends, holes, or dry, loose caulk.

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At Triangle Turf Company, our primary goal is to produce the highest quality turf grass available anywhere. The extra care we put into our grass to make it the best is something you will see every spring for years to come. When you are ready to buy your sod ask your dealer if the turf came from Triangle Turf Company. This is quality you can trust. And remember, when it comes to the first in quality turf grass the grass really is greener on our side of the fence.

The grass is really greener on the Triangle Turf side of the fence! Do you want your neighbors to notice how your lawn stands out every spring? At Triangle Turf Company, we are dedicated to producing the high-quality St. Augustine grass, Bermuda grass, and Zoysia grass that will make you the envy of your neighbors and have them asking you for lawn care tips. Our quality turf grass sod is used in first-class installations in San Antonio, Austin, and throughout most of the rest of Texas. Call toll-free, 1-800-753-5182 for more information and a free quote.

When youre ready to begin a sod installation project, ask your sod dealer if his turfgrass comes from Triangle Turf. An affirmative answer means that your sod dealer focuses on quality work and it will assure you that youll have a lawn to be proud of for many years to come.

Our grasses are grown to a standard of 95% purity or better!

Please spend some time looking through our website. Weve provided information that we hope will help you choose the right grass for your location and installation. Triangle Turf Company specializes in growing sod that performs well in the demanding climates of San Antonio and Austin, so if youre looking for first-quality turf grass developed to thrive in your area of Texas, give us a call at 1-800-753-5182. We can deliver sod pallets directly to your project site in San Antonio or Austin.

For more information about St. Augustine grass sod, Bermuda grass sod, or Zoysia grass sod, please visit those information pages.

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Winter is for the birdsso feed them.

Thats the advice of Curtis Stillwell at the Grass Pad, a nursery stock, seed, sod and wild bird enthusiast store in Olathe, Kansas.

Just get off your butt and do it, he jokes. Its not rocket science. You can buy a small hanging feeder and a 10 pound bag of wild birdseed for less than $10. Start small and sees who shows up.

And who might show up?

According to Stillwell, during the winter in northeast Kansas, blue jays, cardinals, house sparrows, song sparrows, mourning doves, house finches, house wrens, purple finches, American finches, tufted titmouses, chickadees, hairy and downy woodpeckers, red bellied woodpeckers, red wing black birds, grackles, nuthatches and flickers may pay a visit.

However, whether humans should feed wild birds, according to Stillwell, is a personal choice, akin, he says, to helping a homeless person on the street. Melody Weller at the Wild Bird House at the Brookwood Shopping Center in Topeka agrees, but adds that feeding birds doesnt make them dependent.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks apparently thinks its OK to feed feathered friends, as it provides information on feeding and attracting birds at kdwpt.state.ks.us/Services/Wildlife-Diversity/Bird-Feeders.

KDWP says birds have three simple needs: food, cover and water.

And for humans, Weller adds, a good viewing area from a window, with the feeder or birdhouse placed where predators cant harm the birds.

For cover as well as food that means habitat. The KDWP and Kansas State and Extension Forestry recommend a song bird bundle of shrubs, such as tartarian honeysuckle, eastern red cedar, Nanking cherry and aromatic sumac. They also suggest a woodpile or an old Christmas tree.

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At Amish Designers, we do our very best to make creating an oasis for your family, employees and guests as easy and affordable as possible. Combining our modern the expertise of our design consultants, our beautiful designs, modernized manufacturing facility and equipment, and our nationwide logistics,we can help you make your backyard dream easy and affordable. By using truckers looking to backhaul well-packed pallets around the country, we can get your kit to you for less than you might think.

If you are out of range of our assembly crews, each of our structures is available in kit form with illustrated assembly instructions and construction drawings. You can hire a local contractor or handy man to put it together, or you and a couple of friends can put it together in a couple of weekends if one of you is pretty handy. Our direct operations hotline: 717-418-6744 rings directly to an experienced construction professional so you have the help you need each step of the way.

1.Quality -We have one top-quality line of gazebos and pavilions and dont play games with skimpy substitutes.

2.Straight Talk: Simply the most for your money.There are no cheapy, skimpy gazebos in our product line to confuse your selection process. We have high quality products for discriminating buyers. We dont make ridiculous price and 100% warranty claims.

3. Great Selection and Designs.Look closely at our designs and youll see differences, both subtle and substantial. Our customers love our ability to discuss their project with them to achieve a result that is uniquely theirs. Make sure you have us email you photos from our extensive library.

4. Great Service. Every one of us arecustomer service fanatics. We are accessible, focused and responsive. Youll find it just as easy to get in touch with us after the sale. There is an operations hotline that rings directly through to a technician in the factory if you need assistance with site preparation or assembly.

If you already have an idea what you want, you will do better to go to the navigation to the upper left and click on pavilions, gazebos, pergolas, where the gallery selection will be more relevant to you.

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The city of Urbana will receive more than $20,000 in state funding to make upgrades to Melvin Miller Park.

The grant is part of $2.8 million in NatureWorks grants approved by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to assist communities across Ohio develop and improve public access to outdoor recreation facilities.

Urbana officials will receive about $20,400 to replace fences around adult softball fields No. 1 and No. 2 at Melvin Miller Park, which were opened in the 1960s and early 1970s, said Parks and Recreation Superintendent Chris Stokes.

Theres holes in them, the poles are leaning and everything is curled up on the bottom. Theyre in bad shape, Stokes said.

NatureWorks will provide 75 percent of the money for the project. Urbana will pay the remaining 25 percent, or nearly $7,000, which will come out of the Capital Improvement Fund, Stokes said.

These grants will allow communities to increase green space, update playground equipment and picnic areas and spend time with their families, which helps improve the quality of life for everyone that calls our great state home, said ODNR Director James Zehringer in a press release.

Urbanas Melvin Miller Park is one of 80 community-based projects that will receive NatureWorks grant money.

The grants will support the acquisition of more than 23 acres of green space, the development or improvement of 21 playgrounds, 12 shelters and gazebos, seven park restrooms, two spray-splash pads, a skate park and dozens of other local improvement projects that will help make Ohios park infrastructure more enjoyable for all Ohioans, according to ODNR.

Stokes said officials hope to replace the fences in the spring.

Theyre quite old and in disrepair and overdue for having them replaced, Stokes said.

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IT'S that time of year when the feng shui conscious among us are busy studying directions and flying stars.

This year, as I busy myself with said directions and stars, I am reminded of this shop that used to be on Session Road, called Old Pagoda. I recall that it was either where KFC is now or a bit lower on that incline. At any rate, it was owned and run by this exotic Chinese woman whose hairdo consisted of not one bun, not two, but three or four at any given sighting. What a character.

A tingaling accompanied entering the Old Pagoda door, and the shop was full of Chinese antiques and bricabrac. A musty smell accompanied any looking and shopping. And that exotic woman smiled as the tingaling announced you, either entering or leaving. Im now thinking that had I been feng shui conscious then, I would have gone to Old Pagoda for my flying stars needs.

In the here and now, this incoming Year of the Sheep has the dangerous flying stars in the west, center, southeast, and south. The number 5 bad earth star is in the west and requires a metal cure. The west is also where the three killings are, and requires three celestial guardians to be parked there: fu dog, chi lin, and pi yao. The number 3 flying star is center, bringing conflict, and said star is cured by any number of feng shui items, my most often used being fu dogs. The southeast is where the number 2 Illness star is, and can be subdued by a wu lou. The number 7 robbery star is south, and is cured by, again, any number of items. My most often used is the blue rhino and elephant tandem.

As for the lucky stars, they can be enhanced.

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Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on January 24, 2015.

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