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They are perfect for apartment dwellers just getting into gardening, downsizing baby boomers, the physically challenged (who can cultivate a whole little world at tabletop level) and just about everyone else. I have admired them for years, but only recently turned my hand to making one.

When I’m writing a longer story, I print out all my interview notes and spread the pages across my kitchen table (or floor), in the manner of a chef’s mise en place. This helps me organize my thoughts before I dive into the writing. I don’t understand how people can work off 30 different documents on one tiny laptop screen.

A birdbath is one of the best ways to attract birds. Kovalcik said more birds are drawn to birdbaths than feeders. Contrary to popular belief, she said it won’t become a breeding ground for mosquitoes because visiting birds will keep the water from getting stagnant. However, maintenance is crucial.

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Do-it-yourselfers can put together their own fountains, and landscape designers can create custom water fountains fitting for grand estates or modest homes with postage stamp-sized backyards.

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Other news outlets defended their reporting as well, noting that much of it is undisputed and has led to indictments and guilty pleas by figures associated with Trump’s campaign.

Berms are fun little islands amongst the sea of green in your backyard. They can be used to create fun and creative landscape designs that will add texture and color to your yard. You can cover the berm with rocks, flowers, plant a tree, decorate with colored stones, cover with foliage, and more. Berms are very versatile landscape designs that can be used anywhere in your yard, but most professionals suggest that berms are best used in corners.

  Glen Ellyn officials still have to decide where to display the original horse trough, donated to the village by a businessman more than a century ago, after the structure is refurbished. Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

As spring nears, it’s hard to resist the call of birds and the urge to sit on a porch, or at picnic table, and just watch them enjoy the return of warmth as much as we do. There are plenty of ways to attract birds to fly and flitter around the house, such as having hedges and nice trees, but nothing pulls birds in quite like a bird feeder.

A fox squirrel’s range can be 10 to 40 acres and with overlapping territories of different squirrels. They sometimes share stores and nests in winter. Their main diet consists of leftover mast or pine nuts in the spring, seeds of elms, maple, and pine in the summer, and acorns in the fall and winter, but they will also eat berries, bird eggs, bulbs, buds, certain flowers, frogs, fruit, green shoots, inner bark, insects, mushrooms, nuts, roots, seeds, and vegetables. A fox squirrel may drink water on occasion but the majority of moisture they receive is through succulent plants that they eat.