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Step it up..........4 Tips to keep you moving this holiday season.

At home6

Sweet decor......10 Homemade candy canes can add to your Christmas ambience.

The land had a storied history before the Pattersons built a home

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ith the holiday hustle and bustle requiring so much precious time, how can you find opportunities to add exercise into each day? There are ways to search out those elusive minutes for movement. They are scattered throughout your morning, afternoon and evening, but with a little ingenuity and thought, these tiny spurts of time can add up to extra steps and more holiday calories burned.

Here are 10 smart, practical and easy tips that can help you stay active during this busy — and calorie-laden — time of year: 1. Wear a Pedometer: Get a pedometer or add a pedometer app to your mobile phone and use it every day. This inexpensive tool is a terrific motivator. It helps you keep up with exactly how much you are actually moving. Being able to

monitor your movement will help you to move even more. Try adding 500 extra steps the next day. This is equivalent to about 5 minutes of steady walking.

2. Do Your Chores on Foot: Resist the urge to delegate household tasks which involve walking, such as getting the mail, walking the dog, taking out the trash, or simply fetching something from the car. Asking the kids or your spouse to do it may seem quicker and easier sometimes, but it doesn’t help your pedometer reach its goal!

3. Decorate with Added Steps: When putting up and taking down the Christmas tree and other seasonal decorations, leave the box of trinkets and ornaments on the opposite side of the room.

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Walk to the box for each item then back to where it will go. All that back and forth really adds up.

4. Cook on the Move: While cooking or baking those delectable holiday treats, consider jogging or marching in place while the timer ticks away. An added plus — this will burn some of the calories you might gain from sampling your products.

5. Park Far Away When Shopping: Not only do you add steps going back and forth, you are saving time not having to search for a space and you will save your car from being bumped by carts or other car doors.

6. Move in the Morning: Make sure your exercise time isn’t eaten up by daily surprises. Get up a few minutes earlier each day, stretch and take a few deep breaths. Then walk or jog in place, even if only for a few minutes.

You’ll wake up quickly and log a few hundred steps at the start of your day.

7. Walk Through Those Holiday Shows: Forgo the recliner as you watch your favorite holiday TV programs. Move during your movie instead. Pace around your living room while keeping an eye on the screen, or walk or jog in place. Two hours will pass quickly and that can add up to several thousand steps. Not up for two solid hours of moving? Vow to move the first few minutes of each show and during commercials.

8. Pace on the Phone: Pace through the house as you enjoy a chat on the phone. Steps add up when you form this simple habit. This is another example of using hidden minutes.

Commit to move during your next telephone calls.

9. Stand Through Your Sit-Down Tasks: Make it a point to stand as you fold laundry, go through the mail, or write out your bills. You’ll find you can add many steps to your overall day this way. Then when the laundry needs to be put away and the bills put in the box outside — don’t delegate those duties. Think of them as a few more chances to reach your steps or miles goal for that day.

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Work to the Beat: Turn on some great fast music while you cook, clean or manage other chores. Feel your mood instantly lift and get more movement out of your tasks. Time flies when you are listening to enjoyable music.

A century ago, without all our modern conveniences, a person didn’t need to make extra time for exercise.

Moving was a vital part of daily tasks.

Now, however, with all our time-saving contraptions and sedentary jobs, we have to include exercise in our day. It has to become and remain a priority

on your to-do list.

There are hundreds of flexible minutes in our day for extra steps; we only have to look to find them. As you rush around handling all the last-minute details of the holidays, be sure to make time for your health, too, even if it is in small increments. Then as the colder, winter days pass and the bright, new days of spring approach, your more fit and energetic body will thank you.

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Patterson home has connection to old town.

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s one passes over the threshold from the road into the driveway of Marty and Roxie Patterson’s home, the view once partially hidden by trees is now revealed in all of its autumn glory.

Banked by Fort Hays State University on the south, the city avannah of Hays on the east and Big Creek on the north, the homestead is a 15—acre private olie oasis right next to town.

“You couldn’t even drive down here it was so overgrown,” Patterson said of when his parents, Larry and Kay Patterson, bought the land in 1983 or ‘84.

The land actually is the location of an older town. In this area, the first town was not Hays, but the short-lived town of Rome, founded

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in May 1867. Buffalo Bill Cody was believed to be one of the original founders, if not a fierce promoter.

In June of 1867 a new post called Fort Hays was erected approximately 1 mile south from Rome, and a tent was erected on a plateau 1 mile owning approximately east of Rome — the founding of a new town called Hays City. The rival towns fought for reen ascendancy, but Hays City gradually won.

Marty moved into a trailer house on the property during his last year of college in 1985, and the Pattersons began the task of clearing some of the land in 1986.

“We reached the stone house first,” Patterson said.

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The stone house is made of limestone and is dated 1907 with a carving above the entrance. A limestone barn to the west directly behind the house is believed to have been built after.

Patterson’s parents eventually would build a house to the west of these limestone buildings in 1993.

Paul-Wertenberger Construction, Hays, built the frame of the home and Patterson did most of the finishing work on the interior of the home, putting in drywall and floors, as well as building the deck himself.

He said this was during the time of the last big oil crash, so he had a lot of time on his hands to work on the house.

“I’d go pump wells in the morning, be back by noon or 1 o’clock and come work on this house,” Patterson said.

The raw cedar on the vaulted ceilings of the home was a request of Patterson’s father.

“Dad wanted the raw cedar on the ceilings to bring the smell of cedar into the house,” Patterson said.

He also noted the natural pine

floors throughout. Patterson said the pine is soft, and though it does dent more easily, it’s comfortable to walk on.

“It sure is a nice feeling,” Patterson said.

It took two years to complete the home.

Patterson’s parents lived there

for five years before they moved to Oklahoma, and Patterson moved into the house after that.

Recent additions to the main house include renovations to the bathrooms and laundry room, as well as some updates to the kitchen.

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The most significant change has been the addition of a 900-square-foot porch on the front of the home.

There was a small porch there before, but Roxie asked if they could maybe ‘knock it out’ just a few feet, according to Patterson.

“Well, it ended up being a little farther than a few feet,” Roxie said with a laugh.

Signature Builders, Hays, completed the deck in October 2010, just as the Pattersons were returning from their honeymoon. Married Oct. 10, 2010, they hosted a reception/Halloween party on their new deck to celebrate with friends and family.

The deck is an excellent space for entertaining with a large dining table, fireplace, television and built in wine fridge in the outdoor kitchen area.

The exposed rafters and dark wood beams give the porch a rustic cabin feel which blends nicely with the surrounding foliage. The outdoor living space at the Pattersons is truly exceptional with the deck continuing to wrap around to the back where Marty and Roxie can walk out their bedroom door to a beautiful view of

Big Creek.

CCR & Landscaping, Ellis, is responsible for the outdoor creations that anchor the deck and main house.

Signature Builders also built the new garage next to the home the same year as the new deck.

The old limestone barn was converted into a woodworking shop where Patterson created the wooden

doors which adorn the barn as well as the old stone house.

Roxie has put her own stamp on the property as well.

In June 2013, after selling her salon in town, she began converting the old stone house into a one-chair salon and barbershop.

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When it came time to repair the limestone, she turned to Pete Felten, local Hays artist, and Ann Staab for advice.

“I turned to the experts,” Roxie said.

“They have done a lot of limestone restoration and I needed some guidance.”

Patterson said his wife chipped out all the crumbling mortar and re-pointed the inside and outside of the building herself.

“Her fingers were pretty torn up by the end of all that,” Patterson said.

But Roxie was quick to add that it was worth it.

“It was a really fun project for me to do.”

The inside of the salon includes turkey footprints in the concrete floor from a time when the building was used to house birds, along with many more personal touches.

A 1920s barber chair, restored by Patterson, is a showpiece.

“That’s tanned buffalo hide on the chair,” Patterson said, which is his tribute to Buffalo Bill Cody’s ties to property.

Patterson had to completely re-chrome the chair and find everything he needed to repair it. The project took him close to two years.

Signature Builders replaced the windows in Roxie’s Stonehouse Salon and a stained-glass window, made by a woman found through the Patterson’s travels in Sedona, Ariz., allows the Kansas sunlight to dance around the room.

Outside the salon, there are more clues to the property’s history. Many carvings mark the outside of the building, including names and dates; there even is a carved line that shows how high the water reached on the house in the flood of June 17, 1957.

A stone horse tank, dated 1910, is where it is said men used to water their horses, give themselves a quick bath and then sit under the adjacent cottonwood tree and rest in the shade.

A new addition on the east end is a small house that is an exact one-fourth size replica of the main house — a place for his daughter, Rhian, currently attending high school in Canada, to stay when she attends FHSU. “It’s a dollhouse for her,” Patterson said with a laugh.

The most recent addition includes a fenced in garden area on the south side of the homestead where the Patterson’s used son Zach’s old treehouse as a garden shed, and Marty put up the fencing. They hope to add raised garden beds to plant

tomatoes, other vegetables and flowers come springtime.

“He did all this in about a day,” Roxie said. “He’s a real workhorse.”

“Well, I get yelled at when I don’t work,” Patterson joked.

“We really could work outside 24/7” , Roxie said. “There’s a lot to do.”

While the land already had a long and storied history before the Pattersons bought it, they are adding their own history to it as the years go by.

A deck off the back of the limestone

barn served as son Zach’s first woodworking project; a weeping willow tree to the west of the main house was the spot where Patterson proposed to Roxie; the grandchildren enjoy fishing off the bridge over Big Creek; and everywhere there is a Bradford pear tree, there is the evidence of a father’s love.

“I planted two side-by-side in several places around here — one for Zach and one for Rhian,” Patterson said.

These are memories that make up the history of the Patterson home.

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hey’re sweet, striped and go handin-hand with Christmas. But these candy canes won’t leave you with a sticky mess. They can be used year after year to decorate your home for the holidays.

Pick out different colors of fabric.

You can do traditional colors like red and white, neutral colors like grey and cream or whatever colors you like to decorate with for Christmas.

Cut out a candy cane template using a piece of cardboard.

Next fold your fabric in half and make sure the fabric is facing the wrong way out. Trace your candy cane template and cut it out. You will have

two pieces of fabric now. Sew the two pieces together using a sewing machine and leave the bottom of the candy cane open. If you don’t have a sewing machine you can just hand sew it.

Turn your candy cane right side out and stuff it using poly-fil. Hand sew or use your sewing machine to sew the candy cane shut and you have yourself a fabric candy cane.

Throw a bunch in a basket, tie a few together with some twine and attach a jingle bell, garland, or a cute Christmas tag.

These make cute decorations and great little gifts.

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Holiday hosting

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s the holiday season approaches and you’re tasked with hosting family and friends, it can be a little overwhelming to imagine all the work that has to take place for a successful celebration.

However, there’s no reason the host can’t join in the fun. To help keep calm and have your home ready for the party, follow these tips.

Cleaning More often than not, the first step to readying a home for a house full of guests is to clean. Start by going room to room seeking out trash, recyclables and things that can be stored away — anything to clear up much-needed space. Once the clutter is cleared, work from the top down to clean surfaces, so any dust or debris that hits the floor can be vacuumed or swept neatly away.

Remember to steer clear of harsh or highly fragrant chemicals, which may be an irritant to some guests.

Upgrading Don’t try to sneak by with old appliances this time around. Instead, upgrade your most important resources throughout the house in order to find success when it comes to playing host.

For example, swapping out your old, cluttered refrigerator for a French door refrigerator with infinity slide shelves is a useful way to create more space in the kitchen. Its pantry-inspired layout lets families fit and find all their edible favorites. Every section, shelf and bin in the refrigerator was redesigned to deliver smart organization with panoramic shelves and unique features to store 30 percent more than other leading French

door bottom mount refrigerators.

Perfect for a big shopping run before a party, the refrigerator features dedicated spaces places like the treasure bin, platter pocket and small items bin, to give maximum visibility and easy access when it’s time for the food prep to begin.

Planning Staying organized and having a precise plan are vital to putting together the perfect night with family and friends. Make sure to nail down the specifics, such as the number of guests, what food will be brought, what needs prepared in advance and what can wait until the big day. Making lists and involving others in the family to help can make a seemingly insurmountable volume of work feel instantly manageable. As you think through your plans, remember to anticipate the unexpected and have an emergency party kit on hand to quickly respond to pitfalls, like spills or broken glass, before they derail the festivities.

Decorating With all the energy you put into planning and upgrading, don’t overlook the importance of taking time to make your home shine with a creative touch.

Go festive with holiday-specific decor or keep it classic with timeless decorations placed throughout the home to make it really sparkle. For close family and friends, consider adding personal touches like mementos of holidays past. Or go with a themed approach with similar colors and textures that you carry throughout the house.

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Weathering the cold T

he onset and arrival of colder temperatures means it’s time once again to brace yourself — and your home — for everything that winter weather threatens to throw at you. From cool, drafty air wafting into your house to friends and family bringing snow and sand inside with them, it’s important to remember the preparation to go through before winter strikes.

In order to help keep your home warm, cozy and clean throughout the winter months, follow these seven tips to get started: Check the roof With warm days dwindling, it’s never too early to look over your roof for damaged shingles or other various problems.

Because winter brings along cold weather and plenty of precipitation, cracks in the roof can cause major issues down the road. If heights and ladders aren’t your thing, try using binoculars from ground level to check things out.

Clean the gutters After the trees shake loose of their leaves throughout the fall, it’s always imperative to keep the gutters clean of debris. If your gutters fill up with leaves and other junk, the runoff from rain and snow has nowhere to go except in unwanted crevices in your roof.

Seal leaks around windows and doors Caulk is a cheap, simple solution to one of winter’s most annoying little habits — sending cold drafts into your house. Look closely as you check around windows and doors for small cracks then carefully seal up the problem.

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Reverse ceiling fans While some ceiling fans require flipping blades, most new fans simply have a reverse feature to make the blades spin clockwise. This easy fix can help pull room air upward and cause warm air — which has risen to the ceiling — to be forced back downward.

Keep out sand and snow Rather than sweeping and vacuuming your entryway every evening, place rugs and storage bins close to your front door, garage and any other entrance to the home so that you and your guests don’t track sand and snow into the house when inclement weather hits.

Stock up on winter gear Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know exactly what each winter will bring. Rather than trying to fight the elements on a snowy day to find salt for your sidewalk or a new shovel to clear the driveway, stock up on these items and other winter essentials long before Mother Nature strikes.

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