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Start your refresh job not with a shovel or pruning shears, but with a pencil and paper. Eliminate a lot of hard work and discover ways to minimize your effort. Draw your house and yard to scale, then do a thorough analysis of the existing features and structures, soil quality and the plant conditions. The...

I am pleased to announce that I am jumping with joy, having been jabbed with the Pfizer vaccine. Not only that, but the process of receiving the vaccination went smoothly and efficiently. I am almost at the point of being a little forgiving of the provincial government and its handling of the COVID pandemic, because...

As I write this, it has been a year (and a couple of days) since Saskatchewan went into pandemic lockdown. A year. It seems incredible to me, and the more I think about it, the more bizarre it seems. Those first three months were so awful, weren’t they? I think many of us felt like...

My mom and I were having lunch a few Sundays ago, when she noticed someone looking at my car. “I think somebody just hit you,” she said. I didn’t think so, given I was in a chair in her living room with a TV tray in front of me. It turned out, a person renting...

It’s your lucky day because you don’t have to search for the pot of gold under the rainbow for this winning recipe. Throw out the old Irish classics and sweeten things up this year with some mint chocolate chip fun. If you’re in a crunch for St. Patrick’s Day and need something glowing with green,...

The real estate market in Saskatoon is off to a hot start! The number of sales in January 2021 are up more than 26 per cent over January 2020, and the inventory is down by over 40 per cent. What this means for sellers is that if your house is priced right you will be...

If goaltending quality were used to rate the Canadian teams in the National Hockey League, mark the Montreal Canadiens down as the presumptive champion of the North Division this summer. As the seven teams approached the one-third mark of the 56-game regular season, with nary a postponement due to COVID-19 (as teams in the other...

I remember watching the track and field championships at my Saskatoon high school when I was in Grade 9. The year was 1969. The track meet was the qualifying event for the city championships. Aden Bowman Collegiate owned the city title in those days. I remember being enthralled watching a girl, as we said in...

I had been hearing a lot of buzz around a new book, Flat Out Delicious, by author Jenn Sharp and photographer Richard Marjan. Intrigued, I requested a copy from the library this past fall. Once I received the book, it didn’t take long for me realize that this was a book that needed to be...

A chocolate, banana, and oatmeal smoothie is a warm smoothie for those cold mornings and also a delicious way to start your morning strong with a good balance of protein and complex carbs. The combination of tryptophan and vitamin B in bananas and oats helps your mood regulation and the production of serotonin which will...