DailyMe @HomeDailyMe Digest RSS @HomeGadgets: Easily move video to portable media players- September 17, 2008 Getting music onto an iPod or other portable media players is easy thanks mostly to iTunes and other programs. Getting video to these same devices, however, can be a challenge.Readers often send e-mails asking how to transfer video, and my...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700016624/ A wrinkle in yard work: Don't prune in fall- September 17, 2008 Predictably, as soon as the first hint of a chill can be felt in the evening air, friends and colleagues start asking: What should I be doing in the yard nowMy short answer: Step away from the loppers.I understand, the heat and humidity of...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700010056/ From Bordeaux to chateaux for lucky birds- September 16, 2008 SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Hank Toulson bought a couple of wooden French wine boxes at a yard sale because he thought they might come in handy someday. He set them aside until he could figure out what to do with them."Then a light bulb went on," he...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091600008073/ Beauty and peace fill these landscapes of koi ponds and bamboo- September 16, 2008 FRESNO, Calif. _ Fifty years ago, Sylvia Owens bought a hand-carved stone lantern in Japan hoping one day to have an Asian-style garden.Today, that lantern sits on a piece of flat granite in a small pond in Owens' Fresno, Calif., backyard. The...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091600007146/ Crafter puts her artistic stamp on a room- September 16, 2008 FRESNO, Calif. _ It may sound like an exaggeration to say Kathy Chono-Herring's hobby of making greeting cards for family and friends was spilling into every room of her Fresno, Calif., home. Guess again."I had towers of stuff everywhere," she...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091600007142/ Father-and-son team creates furniture and accessories from barrels, found materials- September 15, 2008 WAYNE TOWNSHIP, Ohio _ Chris Deffenbaugh can't bear to see reusable materials go to waste.So when a friend asked him to help move an old, fallen-apart barrel from his basement to the curb, Deffenbaugh saw not trash, but possibility. He...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091200007133/ Pull Invasive Plant Out of Shade Bed at Once- September 15, 2008 This volunteer plant in my shade bed grows low like a fern, but the leaves are coarser like a palm. Now it's forming seeds at the ends of the leaflets and, before it spreads, I guess I'd better find out what I've got.Pull it up and dispose of it...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091400007929/ Trump's new Mar-a-Lago furniture collection brings ornate into play- September 15, 2008 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Mar-a-Lago, built in the 1920s as the opulent Palm Beach, Fla., estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post, became known as a social Mecca for her costume balls, teas, recitals and infamous square dances.Most of us know it...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091500011394/ Kayak's climb: Boat enthusiasts finding man-powered raft a convenient alternative- September 10, 2008 FRESNO_Eric Kaai was a typical fisherman. Proud owner of a 14-foot Boston Whaler, equipped with a 40-horse motor.Sure, Kaai got some enjoyment out of that boat. But over the years, he began questioning whether it equaled the costs and hassles...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091000016694/ Storing wine in the fridge: Not cool- September 9, 2008 Q: I recently bought and refrigerated more highquality white wine (Ridge Monte Bello chardonnay) than was consumed at a dinner party. This is not wine for everyday drinking, so should I keep it in the refrigerator for the next event (and if so,...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008090900015701/ |