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Oregon Marine Board offers winter boating safety tips

Not only is it “not nice to underestimate Mother Nature,” it’s particularly bad karma to underestimate Mother Nature in winter. Nowhere is that more true than on the water. Here are some tips provided by the Oregon State Marine Board for prudent ways to boat safely during these cold, volatile months: Crabbing: Crabbing in the winter […]

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Gardening

Revamp Your Gardens for Late Summer, Early Fall

I need to take a hint from my neighbor to the north. She constantly deadheads or cuts the dead flowers off her petunias and dahlias. She ruthlessly pulls out annuals that are gangly, beat-up-looking and, in general, beyond their prime. I took a page from her book and recently deep-sixed my fourth of July Ace […]