It is relatively easy to set up a siphon to supply additional water to your tree, which is essential if your stand has a small reservoir or if you need to be away from home for more than a day or two while the tree is up. You’ll need a large bucket or other container — I find the shallow, wide plastic drink cooling…

My house has its own well, supplying moderately hard water. Which, by the way, generally tastes better than soft water! Also, harder water is less corrosive (its acidity is buffered by those dissolved minerals), meaning that if you have any lead pipes or solder between the water source and your tap, hard water is less…

Freeze it! Voila, it’s a solid, not a liquid.

My editing mistake: Al is the most abundant METAL in the earth’s crust. My point about how much Al we are exposed to and ingest daily still stands, Dr. Know-it-all!

Lots of us know that aluminum the most common element in the earth’s crust. It’s literally all over the ground, in soils. You ingest lots of it each year by breathing in dust and then swallowing mucus from your nose and throat (you’re welcome!) and by eating produce with bits of dirt on it. You get it all over your…

So Cal, just south of San Clemente, right on the coast. On a fault line. Not a great place for a nuclear reactor as Tepco knows only too well!

I am one of a small but not insignificant number of humans — mainly from NW Europe, India, and Pakistan — whose cannot metabolize most NSAIDs. I inherited “bad” alleles from both parents. My liver does not make the CYP2C9 enzyme needed to break down NSAIDs, some blood thinners (Warfarin), or THC (yikes!!). So if I…

Sounds just like canned dog food (to my dogs).

If you are female and in your teens or 20s, know that your bones will never be denser than they are now, and that failure to develop dense bones now will hurt later (if you plan to live past 60 or so). As someone who went through menopause at 38 and who has a very small frame to start out with, I think the only reason…

I may just try this!  DH and I usually have a duck at Thanksgiving because it’s the right size AND we both love dark meat.  Roasted Brussels sprouts and a bottle of Pinot Noir go great with the duck and potatoes.  I don’t like pie.

I second the recommendation to consider Ally for your savings.  It has CDs, too, for a bit more interest, if you truly don’t expect to need some of those emergency savings in the next six months or longer.

Really?  Eat lunch at your desk and go for a 15 minute walk outside if that’s the best you can do.  Or take that call while walking outside.  If we can do it here in AK, it can be done just about everywhere.

Kirkland mayo tastes just like Hellman’s for a fraction of the price.

Yes, if you are going to ingest all the crap that’s in both generic and brand name Cheezits anyway, you might as well enjoy it! The only good thing about generics is they don’t lead to binge eating.

Where I live we get just over 5 hours of low angle daylight on the shortest day each year. Go outside, go outside, go outside. The illustration for this article gets it completely wrong. Go outside!!!

I’ve lived with a dozen or so labs so far, including English show lines, rangy American hunting lines, and some of dubious lines. All have frequently had the zoomies. My current dogs, a middle-aged Golden retriever/lab cross and elderly purebred Viszla, zoom around the yard every time we come back from an hour+…

You obviously haven’t been around enough Labradors, Golden retrievers, German shorthair pointers, or Vizslas. My 11 y.o. Vizsla in particular gets very zoomy when we get home from walks. He starts play nipping at the Golden’s neck to get her to chase him — he absolutely loves to be chased! And for some reason the labs…

I’ve got the Airscape kilo, and it does fit a big bag of Costco coffee if I immediately grind a day or two’s worth of beans.  My local Costco stopped selling Sumatra last year so I’m stuck getting it via Amazon Prime.  No other Sumatra that I’ve tried, that might come in smaller portions, comes close to the flavor I…

Oh come on. I’ve somehow managed to survive into my late ‘60s without contracting any dread skin diseases, and I only wash my towels and washcloths every few weeks. I also put them in with all my other laundry. I use hot water because we have very hard and cold well water here, but would not do so if my water was…

The wool dryer balls my sister gave me several years ago are still in great shape. Why? Because I only use my dryer once a year or so. The rest of the time, I save my clothes and the planet by either drying my laundry indoors on a rack, or outside on a clothesline.