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ANTIQUES & COLLECTING: What makes these swinging clocks tick? F2 IN THE GARDEN WITH LEE REICH: Now is the time to plant garlic, F4 MORTGAGE RATES: Long-term US rates inch up to 2.99%, F8 HOME PLAN OF THE WEEK, F9 WMASS DEEDS, F10 PANTRY: Organization is key, F11
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Terry and Kim Kovel | Antiques and Collecting
What makes these swinging clocks tick?
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OU PROBABLY have seen a “swinger” clock but never guessed how it worked. Most are small metal statues standing on a base while holding a long baseball bat, pendulum or other long, thin rod that is topped by a clock or a globe. It keeps time and the pendulum keeps swinging, but there is no sign of an electric plug or other power source. The first “mystery clock” was made by a French magician, Jean Robert-Houdin, in 1845. Many other versions followed. Junghans, a German clock factory, made most of those seen today. Ansonia, an American clock company, also made these unusual clocks. The secret clock parts that kept the hands moving were even patented. The trick is that part of the base moves around slightly, keeping the pendulum swinging and moving the clock’s hands. Another type of mystery clock was made with two clear crystal disks with a clock hand painted on each. The disks turned with power from the base. Many copies of antique mystery clocks have been made. The model with an elephant swinging the clock is a favorite that was originally made by Junghans but has been copied in China. Surprisingly, the original had an elephant made of white metal while the copies made before 1930 were bronze. Watch out. There are many copies sold today, and it is very difficult to tell old from new. There are swinger clocks with figures such as a boy with a bat, the Statue of Liberty, Diana, a cherub and even a kangaroo. Neal Auction Company recently sold a metal swinging elephant clock made about 1900, probably by Junghans, for $576. It had a bronze patina.
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autograph on it. It’s the business card of Harry H. Harris and written on the back of the card in pencil is, “Signed around 1916 in presence of Harry Harris.” The card was given to me by Mr. Harris in 1972, when I was his paperboy. I was thinking of writing a brief description of how I got this and signing it in front of a notary public. Do you think that is sufficient authentication?
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The value of an autograph is based on the importance of the signer and the rarity of his signature. Handwritten, signed letters sell for the highest prices. Autographed photos sell for more than just a signature in an album or on a card. Condition is also important. There are auctions that specialize in autographs, and they will tell you what they need in order to provide authentication. A written description of how
CURRENT PRICES Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions. Mt. Washington salt & pepper shakers, enamel flowers, yellow ground, squat fig shape, 2 3/4 inches, $95. Game, Bambino Baseball, field with target holes at bases and outfield positions, tin lithograph, wooden ball & bat, Mansfield Products, 1946, box, 12 x 20 inches, $155. Eskimo snowshoes, Bear Paw, natural bent wood, animal hide weaving, c. 1925, 36 x 18 inches, pair, $250. Garden patio lounge chair, Radar, cast iron mesh, black, rounded form, leg rest, 6 legs, M. Tempestini, Salterini, 28 x 30 inches, $375. World War II parachute, Air Force, folded into backpack, canvas & leather straps, label, Reliance Mfg. Co., June 22, 1943, $705. Pairpoint lamp, reverse painted glass shade, row of trees, loving cup shape base, silver accents, William Macy, 27 1/2 inches, $830. Furniture, chair, Shell, Model CH07, painted & laminated wood, leather, label, Hans Wegner for Carl Hansen & Son, designed in 1963, made in 2004, 29 x 36 inches, $1,065. Popeye toy truck, Hauler & Trailer, Popeye Transit Co., Local Distance Moving, tin, lithograph, box, 1958, 6 x 9 inches, $1,475. Silver — sterling, mint julep cups, cylindrical with slight taper, monogram, banded rim & foot, S. Kirk & Son, 3 3/4 in., 10 piece, $2,090. Pepsi-Cola vending machine, Drink Pepsi-Cola, Hits the Spot, Vendo 81, blue & white with red Pepsi script logo, 59 x 27 inches, $6,875.
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Now is the time to plant garlic
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HE STINKING ROSE is the one vegetable that I’m most likely to forget to plant each year. After all, although garlic is planted at the end of the season along with lettuce, endive and radish, it’s not harvested along with these other vegetables that ripen in the cool moistness of autumn. No, garlic ripens almost a year hence, in the heat of summer. Nonetheless, now is the time to plant garlic — and here’s a reminder for me and for you. True, many gardeners plant garlic in early spring and reap decent crops. And those of you who are more savvy — or who have done some reading on the subject — plant in late fall, which is when gardening books and magazine articles direct you to plant.
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But let’s examine the logic of planting garlic in spring versus late fall versus late summer. Garlic rarely makes seed, so is grown by planting individual cloves, which, together, make up a bulb or “head” of garlic. The cloves first grow leaves and roots and then, in response to the long days and warm temperatures of summer, heads. New leaves cease to develop once heads start forming, and the more leaves the plant has pumped out before this occurs, the larger the heads. What we all want from our garlic is big heads. So although you can reap a garlic crop from spring-planted cloves, or a larger one from fall planted bulbs, late summer planting gives the cloves the most time to grow the most leaves. This yields the largest heads. Leaves which
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poke up through the ground in late summer do take a rest or even die back a little when temperatures plummet in winter, but growth resumes in spring. Late summer planting also gives roots the most time to grope further into the soil before cold weather strikes. Not only is the plant then able to drink in more water and minerals generally, but is ready to do so with the first warm breath of spring. A large root system early in the season is a special advantage in years when summer weather turns bone dry. All those roots taking firm hold of the ground also prevent freezing and thawing of the soil in the months ahead from heaving the cloves up and out of the ground. (This is Garlic is one vegetable that you plant this year, even soon, for one reason that mulching is so harvest next summer. (LEE REICH PHOTO) SEE REICH, PAGE F5
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any marks or damage. Be sure your name and return address are included. By sending a CONTINUED FROM PAGE F2 question, you give full perto sort/picture/catalog it, it I have a USO jacket mission for use in any Kovel may not be worth my time worn by Miss USA 1992 product. Names, addresses either. Do you have some when the girls traveled to or email addresses will not be direction about what to do? entertain the troops during published. Questions that are Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel the Gulf War. Dick Clark, answered will appear in Kovels answer reader’s questions sent Old sheet music is colEd McMahon and Steve Publications. Write to Kovels, to the column. Send a letter lectible. Most collectors want Harvey all signed this jack- with one question describing the The Republican, King Features sheet music for the covers, not et for Shannon Marketic, Syndicate, 628 Virginia Dr., size, material (glass, pottery), the music. Covers that picture Miss USA 1992. Is there any and what you know about the Orlando, FL 32803 or go online a political event, war, old cars, value to it? item. Include only two pictures: to collectorsgallerykovels. trains, movie stars or Black com the object, and a closeup of The USO, United Service memorabilia are the most desirable. The copyright date Organizations, Inc., is a private, nonprofit organization helps determine the age of the music. The size also helps founded in 1941 to support Quality Oil & Kerosene American troops and their date it. Before 1918, sheet families during World War music was printed on 11-byOil & Gas Heating Services 14-inch paper. Pages measur- II. The USO is best known ing 9 by 12 inches were made for its tours of entertainers after 1920. Early sheet music and other celebrities. They had lithographed illustravisit military bases at home LOCAL & HONEST tions. Photographs were used and abroad in an effort to beginning in the early 1900s. boost morale and connect • Furnaces & Boilers • Central A/C Old sheet music sells in anthe troops to home. The • Roth Containment Oil Tanks • Ductless Mini Splits tiques shops, at flea markets autographs and provenance • Quality Installations • Licensed & Certified and online. Music with all the of your jacket may add to the pages intact and unmarked price it will bring. Auctions Installers • Heating System Upgrades sells the best. If your music is that specialize in celebrity fragile and starting to crummemorabilia include Hake’s ble, it will probably not sell. Auctions (Hakes.com) and www.kaebleoil.biz Look for upcoming auctions Heritage Auctions (HA.com). Up to 26-SEER and find those selling sheet There are also auctions of war 1667 6 W 67 WESTOVER ES ESTOVER RD RD., CH C CHICOPEE, MA • 413-593-3337
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HEN IT COMES to soothing a crying baby it seems like everyone has a suggestion — from a ticking clock to a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel to a ride in the car. The funny thing, of course, is that nothing puts a baby to sleep better than a gently rocking cradle, the “old fashioned,” time-tested solution. If you’re a do-it-yourselfer with a child (or grandchild) on the way, this country cradle project is a great way to prepare for the newest member of the family. It’s easy to build, its classic styling will make it the next family heirloom and, most importantly, it helps the baby (and mom and dad) get some sleep. Almost all of the project’s pieces are traced from fullsize patterns on a single, 1-by-12 pine board. Construction is simple — trace the pieces onto wood, cut everything out, sand and assemble the cradle box and base section separately. Once these subassemblies are complete, apply finish of choice and
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rich, well-drained, and weedfree. Don’t snap cloves off the heads until you’re ready to CONTINUED FROM PAGE F4 plant. When that time comes, heartily recommended follow- select the largest and most ing late fall planting of garlic blemish-free cloves for plantin the north.) ing, then set them upright Ready availability of fresh in planting holes a couple of cloves is one more plus for inches deep and 3 to 4 inches planting garlic in late summer. apart. Are there any disadvantages It’s surely a lot easier to plant to planting garlic now? Only now than to store bulbs in perfect condition until spring remembering to do so. Any gardening questions? for planting. Garlic comes in great variety Email them to me at garden@ leereich.com and I’ll try an— 300 by one count — so look and ask around for what swering them directly or in this might be good to plant. Select column. Come visit my garden at leereich.com/blog. a sunny site with soil that is
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hen a suspicious-looking sprout appeared in the St. Paul, Minnesota, garden of LeAndra Estis, she plucked it. The willful plant popped up again. Instead of pulling it out again, the new gardener fired up Google. The would-be intruder was spinach. “I kept thinking, ‘That’s not right,’” said Estis, who had never seen the leafy green emerge from the ground and was expecting the spinach she planted from seed to look more bushy, like the mustard and collard greens she watched grow as a child. In Minneapolis, Christopher Lutter-Gardella faced a different problem. He had to sow peas several times because his plants were getting chewed down at the base from some unseen force. “The littlest, humblest critter can bring your whole enterprise crashing down,” he said. Such challenges have not discouraged these two urban gardeners. Estis broke ground behind her home in St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood, looking forward to teaching her two daughters — Quaia, 19, and Lonna, 13 — the joys of growing your own food. Lutter-Gardella decided that with more time at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, this was the summer to expand his gardens, including the front yard of his home in Minneapolis’ Powderhorn neighborhood. Amid the exciting victories, both gardeners have accepted minor setbacks as an inevitable part of cultivating gardens that deliver food, beauty — and a few lessons along the way. In this season of renewed interest in home gardening, we are following Estis and Lutter-Gardella throughout the growing season.
Great growth “Everything is growing so fast — especially the weeds,” Estis joked. The spinach that originally confounded Estis was the first plant to spring up and came in strong. Another robust grower has already produced fruit: “The tomatoes are growing like mad,” Estis said. The same is true in Lutter-Gardella’s gardens. He calls his tomatoes — about 15 plants of them — “out of control.” He is racing to stake them. “Every year I am like, ‘Wow, tomatoes are amazing.’ They are so low-maintenance and so productive,” he said. Lutter-Gardella’s squash is also thriving. But it’s the native corn that he planted for the first time this year that has impressed him most. “The corn is blowing my mind. It’s booming.” Disappointing duds “I have struggled with the leeks. I planted a ton but only a dozen have survived,” said Lutter-Gardella. In another unpleasant surprise, only about half of his first planting of carrots germinated, and his pepper plants aren’t producing. He’s not sure why. Estis has a row of strawberry and tomato plants that seem stunted. When she had no more room in her two garden plots, she added a row on the back side of the garage. “That was just a horrible spot,” she said, “I’m not getting much growth there.”
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LeAndra Estis checks the growth of the vegetables in her backyard garden in St. Paul, Minn. Her daughters Quaia, left, and Lonna help out in the garden and post their successes on social media. (JEFF WHEELER / MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE / TNS)
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Lessons learned “Make sure you lay out what you are planting and pay attention to how much space they need,” said Estis, who is in a quandary about three cantaloupe plants she now knows are far too close together. “I am trying to decide if I should pull the one in the middle and replant it in another spot.” She also recommends enriching the soil. In her garden plots, she laid down Miracle-Gro garden soil and nitrogen-rich coffee grounds, a trick she learned from her mother, longtime gardener Ann Estis. In those plots, you can hardly see the soil for the greenery. She didn’t amend the soil behind her garage, where the plants are withering. Turn to trusted sources, Estis advises. She gets tips from experienced garden store clerks. She has turned to Google. But her favorite and steadiest resource is her mother, who lives a few blocks away and visits most days to weed and advise. Estis also is glad she labeled her rows of vegetables. She used simple wooden sticks bearing the names of vegetables-to-come and empty seed packs, which show pictures of the mature plant and also note timelines for harvest.
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ed three varieties of beans. Some will be eaten off the vine, but others he expects to dry, to be prepared long after summer passes, for bean-based dishes such as burritos. When Estis planted her garden, she hoped her enthusiasm for growing food would Christopher Lutter-Gardella prunes a squash plant in his urban Excitement grows spread to her daughters. She veggie garden in Minneapolis. (LEILA NAVIDI / MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE / TNS) When Lutter-Gardella great- now says they do more in the ly expanded his garden this garden than she does, and they Lutter-Gardella, meanwhile, the fruit, he said. When his year, it was with an eye toward post pictures of their greenhas been working to protect thumb successes on social the kind of food production basil plants looked scraggly, his garden from animals that media. Each new burst of life he chopped off their tops, and that could help sustain his are as insistent on living as his they rebounded with vigor. “As family. He stays busy tending — a yellow bloom transforming into a squash, for instance plants. Bunnies were nibbling long as you trim it right above his crops, but looks forward — thrills them. Said Estis, “I the stalks of the corn plants, so an existing leaf, it will bush out to the future. He plans to can he put up a low fence to keep tomatoes and also simply slice come home from work and more,” he said. the hoppers away. He also and freeze some to be added to they say, ‘Mom, Mom, look at He also recommends sprinkles fox urine powder companion planting, in which sauces in the winter. He plant- this!’?” around the base of his plants certain plants benefit each and sprays a cayenne pepper other. The classic example is wax onto plants every two corn, squash and beans. “Corn weeks to repel little nibblers. grows tall, and beans vine up Saturday, August 29, 8am-3pm Beyond those organic prothe corn stalk; squash grows tections, Lutter-Gardella has low around the corn to keep Save 21381 $50 learned that trimming a plant down the weeds. They support E DAY E R F TA X back can enhance its produceach other.” Super Recycler® tion. Both gardeners now know $499 “I am being more bold with that shade is not necessarily 20 List Price $549 0 /2 9 nly 8/2 nly pruning,” he said. Culling the enemy of gardens. LutValid O ck Models O Sto branches off his tomato plants ter-Gardella was surprised to Time Master Save On In prices starting at $100 encourages air flow, and sends find that his squash plants in $999 partial shade look much better more energy and nutrients to than those in full sun. Estis has two garden plots, and one is doing better than the other. She intends to cover the poor performer with a canopy on super-hot days on a hunch that the temporary relief from the heat will aid the plants there.
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Many factors influenced mortgage rates this week — the Federal Reserve minutes, U.S. Treasury auction and encouraging economic data in retail sales and home builder sentiment. But nothing had more of an impact than last week’s decision by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, at least according to mortgage lenders. The 30-year fixed-rate average moved higher for the second week in a row but remained below 3%. It was 2.99% with an average 0.8 point, according to the latest data released Thursday by Freddie Mac. (Points are fees paid to a lender equal to 1% of the loan amount and are in addition to the interest rate.) It was 2.96% a week ago and 3.55% a year ago. Freddie Mac, the federally chartered mortgage investor, aggregates rates from around 80 lenders across the country to come up with weekly national average
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AGAWAM James R. Knight, Brian M. Knight and Teresa M. Knight to Darrin C. Clark, 14 Mooreland St., $160,000. Stephen F. Smist and Julianne M. Smist to Joshua A. Smith and Megan D. Cooney, 106 Hamilton Circle, $298,000. Timothy L. Seidl, Amanda J. Parker and Amanda J. Seidl to Andrew Wilkinson and Alicia R. Casieri, 468 Southwick St., $260,000.
AMHERST James H. Saunders and Elle S. Saunders to Cape Cod Vacation Rentals LLC, 95 East Pleasant St., $415,000. Jose R. Benites and Pedro J. Benites to Main St. Leeds LLC, 8 Webster Court, $172,000. Sandra L. Anderson to Dennis Corkran and Peggy Corkran, 124 Pomeroy Lane, $395,000.
BRIMFIELD Christopher S. Elmore to Jesus G. Gonzalez, 128 Old Palmer Road, $174,500.
CHESTERFIELD Jean T. Jorczak to Christine A. Willis and Steven H. Willis, 21 Farmhouse Road, $189,000.
CHICOPEE Cecile I. Dionne to Casey J. Croteau and Allison H. Croteau, 104 Sunnyside St., $195,000. Federal National Mortgage Association and Fannie Mae to Casey H. Marowski and Kenneth J. Marowski, 24 Lemuel Ave., $133,900. Clara M. Prince to Melissa A. Blissett, 30 Smith St., $250,000. JB Camerlin Real Estate LLC, to TM Properties Inc., 4 Walnut St., $465,000. Joel A. Michalski and Lynn M. Michalski to Tyler Bowers, 50 Yvonne St., $160,000.
CONWAY Andrew J. Vecellio and Jennifer R. Vecellio to Andrew Desguin, 473 North Poland Road, $478,600. Gordon B. Parker and Susan L. Parker to William Stathis and Ellen H. Stathis, 151 Wilder Hill Road/ Baptist Corner Road, $309,000.
DEERFIELD Sandra A. Gokey, Judith L. Holmes and Sandra L. Rhoades to Susan Knightly, Leonard Yakir and Sarah-Hadley Yakir, 64 Hillside Road, $311,000.
EAST LONGMEADOW 3Cs Designs LLC, to Ruby Realty LLC, 79 Prospect St., $70,000. Erika L. Martinez to Marco A. Scibelli, 94 Elm St., $156,500. Margaret M. Leone, James L. Leone Jr., and Margaret O’Connor to Jamie L. Convery, 17 Thompson St., $229,900.
ERVING George Burnett to Elizabeth A. Cavanaugh, 9 West Main St., $208,000.
to Norbert Arthur Belliveau, 260 Chapman St., $200,000.
Kevin D. Beauchemin to Cig4 LLC, 11 Washington Ave., $84,500.
Edward L. Fuller and Wendy S. Fuller to Peter G. Bos, 8 Silver Crest Lane, Unit 6, Silver Crest Condominium/Silver Street, Unit 6, Silver Crest Condominium, $289,900.
Nancy A. Leszczynski to Cig4 LLC, 25 Portland St., $100,000.
Brendan M. McQuillan to Kimiko Donohoe, 45 Princeton Terrace, Unit 45, Meadowview Manor Condominium, $105,000.
Robert J. O’Neill to Jerry Rybczynski and Sebastian Rybczynski, Kenne- John Barron to Joshua Williammee, 681 Shaker Road, $379,000. dy Circle, $5,000. Kaitlyn E. Wong and Sing Wai Wong to Molly Del Howe-Lembcke HUNTINGTON and Joel Leconte, 15 South Park Ave., $345,000. Christopher L. Meyerhoff, Anna R.
Alfred D. Parker and Priscilla A. Parker to Madelaine Frances Taft-Ferguson, 80 Overland Road, $286,000.
Michael A. Miller to Georgia Lyman and Daniel Berger-Jones, 254 South Lane, $295,000. Ronald E. Lewis and Marlina B. Lewis to Jessica Whitelock, 81 Blandford Road, $220,000.
GREENFIELD Caroline E. Dawson to Ann M. Martin, 4 North St., $100,000. Charissa Fotinos to Lisa McGahan, 96-98 Montague City Road, $20,000. Douglas R. McNamara and Pamela J. McNamara to June Eichas and Nancy Merrick, 43 Norwood St., $220,000. Jessica L. David and Scott R. David
Kathleen M. Lonergan and Kathleen Lonergan Fehily to Adam Reed Krevolin and Robin Diane Feinkrevolin, 150 Lincoln St., $244,000. Paul J. Siciliano and Bernadette M. Siciliano to Maria Theresa Siciliano, Patricia Ann Siciliano, Paul J. Siciliano, life estate, and Bernadette M. Siciliano, life estate, 92 South Park Ave., $100.
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HAMPDEN Elena Hovagimian and Paul Anthony Shannon to Luke M. Gonyea, 231 Chapin Road, $235,000. Luke J. Mastroianni to Jonathan Cooper and Melanie Joy-Cooper, 130 Bennett Road, $380,000.
Barry G. Oberpriller and Cheri T. Oberpriller to 11 North Leverett Nominee Trust, James F. Martin, trustee, 11 North Leverett Road, $550,000. Omar Alberto Gonzalez Espinoza and Muriel Laverty to Joann Mulready-Shick and Stephen M. Shick, 157 Shutesbury Road, $313,500.
Richard Carl Gulluni, Richard C. Gulluni and Donna F. Gulluni to Jonathan Trask and Kristin Zukowski, 84 East Longmeadow Road, $287,000.
LONGMEADOW Bonnie Engelman and Daniel Engelman to Anthony Saviri and Silvia E Saviri, 122 Willow Brook Road, $725,000.
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Meyerhoff and Christopher Meyerhoff to Azure Lynn Layton, 147 Worthington Road, $255,000.
William P. Sathis and Ellen H. Stathis to Daniel Simoncini, 40 Canada Hill/Wunsch Road, $295,000.
Juan A. Deleon and Jennifer A. Welsh to Anibal T. Cotto-Laboy, 85-87 Call St., $268,000.
Mark J. Haney, Sharon Haney and Sharon Wright to Daniel A. Melao and Devon M. Melao, 65 DeJordy Lane, $350,000.
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Organized pantry makes cooking life easier By Helen Carefoot
Washington Post
With autumn and colder weather around the corner and no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic, many people may be cooking at home more often during the months ahead. But it’s hard to get inspired when your pantry is a jumble of half-full boxes of pasta, expired canned goods and spices that are long past their prime. How can you know what to cook when you don’t know what you have, or if it’s even usable? Having an organized and uncluttered pantry will make trying ambitious baking projects or cooking up some comforting soups and stews less stressful. We spoke with professional organizers and a food bank employee for tips on how to quickly — and inexpensively — get your pantry in order. Here are their suggestions. Sort, toss and donate Before attempting to organize your food, go through everything in the pantry and toss out expired products, said Vernestine Laughinghouse, founder of Absoulute Organizing Solutions in Washington, D.C. After that, think about what foods and supplies you’ll really eat and use. Keep those things and donate or compost the rest, she said. Research your local food donation and compost options; when Kacy Paide, founder of the Inspired Office firm in Silver Spring, Maryland, reorganized her own pantry, she learned that her neighbors had helped establish a community composting initiative in her condominium complex. Local grocery stores and farmers markets often have composting stations, too. The problem of excess food is a privilege, particularly now, as the coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the economy and caused record unemployment. Feeding America estimates that more than 54 million people, including 18 million children, may experience food insecurity in 2020.
Organizers suggested donating unwanted — but fresh and edible — canned and dry goods to local food pantries and organizations. Don’t try to donate expired food or items with dented, compromised packaging. “I’ve seen clients insist on giving canned food that’s way expired,” Paide said. “You don’t want to burden a food pantry with the work of filtering through what’s good and bad.” Fill shelves back to front Enormous quantities of food move through the storage facilities at Second Harvest Food Bank, which serves Santa Clara County in the San Francisco Bay area. Maya Murthy, Second Harvest’s nutrition director, said the organization served 500,000 households last month — double the number it usually serves — including many people who sought food assistance for the first time. Efficient organizing helps volunteers and staff get food where it needs to go, she said, and a backbone of that system is putting items with later sell-by dates at the back of the shelf and refrigerator and placing older items closer to the front. (These dates don’t indicate when items spoil, but rather when they are at peak freshness, Murthy added.)
as canned, pouched or tinned food, or items with preparation instructions printed on the package, Laughinghouse said. Neatly stack them or place them in containers with the labels turned outward.
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them in the refrigerator, and keep a small amount, if you’ll eat them, out on a counter in a bowl. More hardy vegetables, such as sweet potatoes, onions or garlic, can be stored in the pantry, though storing potatoes and onions next to one another could cause potatoes to develop sprouts more quickly.
Use reusable containers Matching containers look great for Instagram and Pinterest, but Katrina Green, founder of Badass Homelife in Sacramento, California, wants to relieve would-be organizers of the pressure of uniformity. Buying matching containers can be expensive and can Group ‘like with like’ detract from the objective of Creating separate zones the project, which should be in the pantry to store simito structure the pantry so it’s lar items together makes it one less thing to worry about. easy to glance at a shelf and “It’s about creating a system immediately find what you’re that makes your life easier,” looking for. Paide suggests she said. Buying containers categorizing items by use; and then having to take time to for example, keep baking take food out of packaging and supplies together, and group sort it into containers could pastas and canned goods each have the opposite effect. in their own area. Using containers you already have around the house If you’re storing more than or repurposing items, such sealed containers in the pantry, research how the foods as cardboard boxes from the interact. Storing some fruits mail, is a free and sustainable and vegetables together may way to create storage within cause them to ripen or go bad your pantry, Green and Paide more quickly. Murthy doesn’t said. Look for spare boxes, recommend storing fresh and cover them in decorative fruits and vegetables in the scrapbook or wrapping paper pantry, because they could rot to make them look nicer, if you forget about them; store Green suggests. Laughing-
house and Paide also suggest washing old jars — ideally clear glass ones — and reusing them to store dry bulk goods. Or you can find containers in every shape, material and price range at big-box stores and online. Create simple labels with paper, tape or stickers to identify what’s inside; they don’t have to be fancy or professional-looking. “It’s nice when your pantry looks almost like a kindergarten classroom, because then you can very quickly and easily move through your kitchen without as much guesswork,” Paide said. She adds that you could even write the date you opened or bought the item on the label to easily keep track of freshness. In some cases, removing products from their original packaging may help save space. Some older buildings or spaces with smaller kitchens may not have perfectly square cabinets, said Patricia Lee and Jeanne Taylor, co-founders of Tailorly Home, an organizing firm based in the San Francisco Bay area. Find containers that stack or can fit into odd nooks and crannies. Paide, who has a small pantry, says she uses little rectangular plastic containers from OXO because she “can’t afford to have a really big jar that’s one-quarter full.” Other items are better left in their original packaging, such
Create in-cabinet solutions If you don’t want many individual jars or containers piled up, Laughinghouse suggests getting some larger baskets or boxes and putting separate categories of items in each one to corral them. To tame small items that can easily get lost, such as spices or cooking oils, Laughinghouse, Lee and Taylor all recommended using a rotating Lazy Susan inside a cabinet; get a single or double version depending on your needs. Adding extra shelving, such as a free-standing wire shelf, expands cabinet space vertically and makes it easier to stack items. Installing a pullout drawer or shelf on a rolling track is an easy way to make items more accessible; this works especially well in deep cabinets, Lee and Taylor said. Or add large tubs that pull forward. Every organizer warned against creating new spaces to store pantry items, unless there is an immediate and specific need. Even if you have a storage unit, garage or spare room, loading those spaces up with extras won’t ease clutter and could risk creating it, Green said. “You want to make sure space is used smartly, because people expand to fill the space they have,” Paide added. Keeping to the available space will help you avoid overbuying and waste. Ultimately, how much space is necessary to store pantry supplies depends on the household; what’s needed for one adult looks different from the needs of a larger family, Laughinghouse said. “If you’re purchasing anything, think about how you plan to use it before you buy it,” she added. “Have a specific use for it. Don’t just buy it because it’s on sale.”
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Deeds CONTINUED FROM PAGE F11 Thomas E. Kennedy and Margaret Pierce Kennedy to Brian J. Popovich, 55 Harwich Road, $380,000. Wilbraham Builders Inc., to 52 Laurel Lane LLC, 52 Laurel Lane, $419,250.
LUDLOW Allen A. Krasnecky III, to Thomas G. Loranger, 51 Lillian St., $184,000.
inson Road, $41,500. Paul E. Erikson to Pablo Martinez and Cynthia Martinez, 2078 Pleasant St., $220,000. Sonia Pontes, Artur Duarte, Lucinda Duarte and Donizetti Pontes to Leo Gregoire, 4125 Church St., $258,000. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Christiana Trust, trustee, and Hilldale Trust, trustee of, to Carlos Fragoso Serrazina, 123 Boston Road, $226,590.
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Edward C. Authier and Vicki M. AuChristie Howland Smith, E. Chipthier to Maricely Fuentes Lasanta man Smith and E. Chapman Smith and Angel Rodriguez Inserni, 25 to Allan Joseph Ouimet, General Heritage Drive, $347,250. Knox Road, $45,000. U S A Housing & Urban DevelopDonald J. Ouimet and Linda Ouimment to Joseph LaFleur, 116 John St., $152,250. Michelle L. Teto and Michelle L. Fanelli to Kelsey J. Bergeron and Christian J. Sykes, 237 Prospect St., $244,000. Taylor K. Wiggin to Benjamin A. Gonyea, 100 Howard St., $180,100. William R. Falconer III, Marie A. Falconer and Thomas G. Nutting to Sodi Inc., Chapin Street, $250,000.
Historical Enterprises LLC, to Julia M. Connor and David Leach, 25 Stowell Road, $285,000.
SOUTH HADLEY Suzanne M. Cordes and Wayne K. Cordes to William Harold Rollins and Lisa Ann Bilsky, 20 College View Heights, $459,000. Sara M. Ells to Mark V. Laconte, 41 West Summit St., $140,000. Amanda L. Dzialo to Janine R. Knight, 17 McKinley Ave., $266,400.
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Michael R. Richard and Michelle L. Richard to Thomas O. McLeod, 160 Hovey Road, $496,000.
MONTAGUE Pioneer Valley Redevelopers LLC, to Marcia Song Munju, 111 L St., $228,000. Fannie Mae, by attorney, Federal National Mortgage Association, by attorney, Continental Real Estate Services Inc., attorney, to Haylee A. Keene, 17 Turner St., $139,900.
NORTHAMPTON Gil F. Verrillo to Susan Leigh MacRae and Ericsson Broadbent, 254 Old Wilson Road, $1,200,000. Norman E. Menard to Amity Perman, 25 Garfield Ave., 27 Garfield Ave., Garfield Avenue, and 25-27 Garfield Ave., $100.
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SHELBURNE Gregory M. Oles and Nancy A. Oles to Perez Lacera Diego and Sara Jenny Rood-Ojalvo, 3 Pinnacle Lane, $499,000. Jeanne Rees and John Rees to Robert J. Kingsley and Maria L. Kingsley, 50 Patten Hill Road/Patten Road, $403,500.
SHUTESBURY Alan Kelley and Carol Caldwell-Kelley to Erin E. Jacque, 153 Montague Road, Unit B, 153 Montague Road Condominium/449 Montague Road, Unit B, 153 Montague Road Condominium and 153 Montague Road, Unit B, 153 Montague Road Condominium, $213,000. Paul S. Bailin and Brigitta H. Sebesta to Kian Kohan and Parviz Kohan, 78 Schoolhouse Road, $400,000.
Kathleen Anderson to Raffaella Viviano, 294 Nassau Drive, Unit 294, $123,000. Laura A. Rita, representative, and William P. Arnold Jr., estate, to Plata O. Plomo Inc., 320 Plumtree Road, $115,000. Mark A. Gayle and Antonate A. Gayle to Jurrell W. Love, 183 Johnson St., $140,000. Michael Pope to Djuan Barklow and Michael Simmonds, Arnold Avenue, $20,000. Miguel A. Rodriguez, Ana Ramos, Anna Iris Rodriguez and Ana Iris Rodriguez to Sheila K. Maldonado and Alex G. Burgos, 124 Champlain St., $165,000. Nathan Ladlee and Emily Ladlee to Monique Carnegie and Monique N. Carnegie, 44 Howes St., $190,000. Norma Bermudez-Acosta, Norma Caron and Carol A. Caron to Aishea S. Alvarez, 93 Francis St., $210,000. Orlando Cotto to Victor Cotto, 8385 Wallace St., $225,000. Plata O. Plomo Inc to Revitalized Renovations Inc., 320 Plumtree Road, $123,000. Radian Guaranty Inc., to Imran Chaudhry and Amber Amin, 153 Cloran St., $200,000.
MONSON Lorraine Marie Belair and Angel Ayala to Olatunde Cooper, 15 Elm St., $246,000.
Realty Trust, trustee of, 5 Irene St., $80,000.
Fiore Realty Holdings LLC, to Joseph E. Fiore and Andrea L. Fiore, Sawgrass Lane, $67,500. Jeffrey A. Berard to Katie A. Case-Woodruff, 267 S Longyard Road, $175,000. Patricia Savoy and Patricia H. Savoy to Jared Hamre and Matthew Maynard, 23 Veteran St., $75,000. Phillip Milidantri and Jennifer Milidantri to Andrew D. Leblanc, 24 Shore Road, $375,000. Richard L. Winkler to David L. LaFogg, 10 Gargon Terrace, $207,000. Rickey C. Tang and Sara C. Siu Tang to James E. Jaron and Rae B. Alkes, 188 Berkshire Ave., $645,000. Thomas P. Keenan, representative and trustee, Rose Ellen Sweeney, estate, and CR Realty Trust, trustee of, to Paul A. Longtin, 2A Jarry Drive, $466,000.
Elizabeth Kelly, Elizabeth Webber and Daniel R Webber to Louis F. DiRienzo Jr., 105 Oregon St., $231,000.
Richard P. Marsh to Wilfred Torres, 158-166 Chestnut St., Unit 2H-1, $55,000. Rita M. Panasian and David E. Mancinone to Payton A. Rawls, 8385 Knox St., $159,900. Robert D. Straw and Susan J. Straw to Max Schnaper and Rebecca Schnaper, 103 Bronson Terrace, $220,000.
Roberto A. Camacho to Alyssa Marie Rivera and Jesus Manuel Molina, Eugenie Lewis, Fitzgerald Cameron 98 Merrimac Ave., $187,500. and Fitzerald Cameron to Shane Shayne Folkes and Tamaria Folkes Rhiney, 190 Oak St., $260,000. to Sheila Marie Lopez-Gonzalez, Fumi Realty Inc., to Roberto Camacho and Fransico Antonio Camacho, 49 Darling St., $220,000. Herman Wilkinson Jr., and Willie Pearl Wilkinson to Magdiel Cortes Ortiz, 155 Aldrew Terrace, $228,000. Home Equity Assets Realty LLC, to Glenn E. Sullivan, 71 Yale St., $225,000.
57-59 Cortland St., $138,500.
Tamara Martinez, Tamara Martin-Yard and David G. Yard to Kiara Vazquez, 143 Cloran St., $160,000. Theodora Silvia to Eric Gonzalez, 639 White St., #641, $199,000. U S Bank, trustee, and OSI CSMC Asset-Backed Trust 2007-NC1, trustee of, to Marsha X. Qian, 46 Queen St., $80,717.
Jana Obenoskey and Michelle Valley Castle Holdings LLC, to Larocque to Joshua C. Anderson, 77 Round Two LLC, 143-145 Oak Fairfield St., $290,000. Grove Ave., $462,500. Javed Shah and Sakina Shah to Fad Investment Group Inc., 46-48 SUNDERLAND Malden St., $225,000. SPRINGFIELD Jeremy Lorusso Dillon, Nina Flash Joel Weiss to Katherine CasaDillon, “aka� Nina Flash Weisner, do-Berg, 41 Jamestown Drive, Unit Aguasvivas Realty LLC, to Enrique to Jeffrey Ahlman and Kathryn Padilla Ramirez, 237-239 Common- 41, $168,900. Ahlman, 201 Plumtree Road, wealth Ave., $276,000. John F. De Sousa to Dominic $400,000. Kirchner II, trustee, and Belspring Angela Rosario to Michael Sarkes, SEE DEEDS, PAGE F13
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Vegetable garden priceless during the pandemic By Adrian Higgins
garden, you can produce a long and steady supply of suppleThe other day, I had this rathmental veggies for most of the er tasty meal: a baked zucchini year. This is achieved by planting intensively and successively sliced lengthwise, with each and having the resolve to take half filled with a saucy mixture out things in decline and make of sausage, tomatoes, onion room for something else. Why and garlic. The plate included keep sprawling, diseased custeaming boiled potatoes. I don’t know if this was a meal cumber or tomato vines going fit for a king, but it was certainnow when you can crank up ly one befitting the gardener. something fresh? All the ingredients, save the In Zone 7, where I garden, we pork, had come directly from are at what I consider to be the the garden. It is that time of most important juncture of the year, when months of disparate year in the vegetable garden. planting and cultivating conThis would be the start of the Zucchini is the summer gift that keeps on giving, but a gardenverge for the summer feast. To third growing season, which, er’s thoughts now turn to fall. (ADRIAN HIGGINS / WASHINGTON POST) the list of current grow-yourwith some luck and frost this quality in the grocery store. the doors of seed companies. own fare, I might easily have protection, should provide added peppers, various beans, When was the last time you saw cool-season gems into January. In my large community fingerlings for sale or authentic garden, approximately 20 of beets, chard, carrots, melons, Last winter was presaged by a young, new potatoes? corn and cucumber. the 150 plots become free each frigid November but then was Growing edibles is both pleaIn a normal growing season, year. This year, there were just mild, too mild, but it offered surable and laborious. When the August harvest would be a conveyor belt of greens and four. you sit down to eat your work, simply the icing on life’s cake. No matter how intensely you root vegetables, especially there is a sense of satisfaction In a time of pandemic, it is a those grown under row covers. cultivate things, a small city — not only the lofty feeling of practical way to both help fill I have dug all the potatoes, garden is not going to provide empowerment but also the the larder and ease, a little, the all the food you need, and leaving the bed free for a medley of hardy greens, which this more practical reward of conunderlying anxiety of these crops come in waves, anyway. suming food that is fresh and times. One day, I will have a large and year will include kale, radicnutritious. The veggie garden, last year well-organized fruit and vegeta- chio, mustard greens, arugula The potato was a variety ble garden that will furnish far and fast-maturing Chinese a quaint domestic appendage, named Kennebec, a white, more of my victuals. cabbages. I have a bag of became overnight a survival midseason spud that is firm, And although you cannot half-rotted leaves and another bunker. It was a little scary to buttery and waxy. You just of composted cow manure to see back in early spring how the provide for all of your needs don’t seem to find potatoes of in a small urban community prime the soil first. whole world was banging on Washington Post
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WENDELL Peter Gallant Revocable Trust, Peter Gallant and Pamela A. Richardson, trustees, to Chad M. Blackbird and Mandy S. Blackbird, Bullard Road, $31,000.
WEST SPRINGFIELD Amber N. Armitage to Aetti Winner Projects LLC, 20 Clara St., $85,000. Cig4 LLC, to Jory M. Taylor and Rachel A. Taylor, 140 Upper Beverly Hills, $252,500. Craig T. Brayton, representative, and Paul H. Brayton, estate, to Steven M. Martinez and Rebecca
Lough, 57 Nelson Circle, $255,000. Donna Jean Swift to Mykola Mykhalchuk, 37 Park Drive, $221,000.
U S A Veterans Affairs to Austin Monett, 58 Amherst St., $297,000.
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Douglas E. Hoffman and Charlane L. Hoffman to Cindy J. Champagne, 110 Lockhouse LLC, to Patrick J. Ryan II, and Tawnya M. Ryan, 110 Lock96 Garden St., $71,896. house Road, Unit B, $285,000. Eric J. Potorski to Donna J. Swift, 19 Arlene M. Roselli, Albert Roselli, Todd Shady Brook, $270,000. C. Roselli and Jeffrey J. Otoole-Roselli Harold F. MacDonald, represento Jessica Broderick, 25 Florence St., tative, and Robert B. MacDonald, $207,000. estate, to MAA Property LLC, 62 Christopher D. Casternara, Evan Lancaster Ave., $133,000. C. Marshall and Christopher D. Janice M. Klaus to Ashley Puls, 80 Castanera to Derek Richard Berard Brush Hill Ave., Unit 19, $120,000. and Sarah Catherine Berard, 151 Joseph B. Savaria and Kristen M. Sa- Berkshire Drive, $246,000. varia to Deirdre Mikhaylichenko and Christopher Mullen, Bridget Mullen Yevgeniy Mikhaylichenko, 172 Dorwin and Bridget Weir to Kelly M. Avard, 3 Drive, $271,000. Laurel Terrace, $229,000. Michael A. Tyburski and Stephen J. Tyburski to Paul F. Tyburski and Jean E. Tyburski, 205 Piper Road, $124,000.
Robert Lovotti, Anthony Lovotti, Esther L. Lovotti, Ann Marie Lovotti and Patricia Conroy to Joseph E. Brown Jr., and Sabrina N. Morales, 89 Silver St., $225,000.
David J. McManus and Brenda L McManus to Christopher Mullen and Bridget Mullen, 247 Montgomery Road, $423,000. Edward Irzyk, Donald Irzyk and James Irzyk to Emily V. Irzyk, 23 Wilson Ave., $160,000. Gary Charles Sico, Samuel Sico,
Bonnie Sico Russell and Neva Marie Lesage to Charles Sico, 46 Phillip Ave., $230,000. Granville Road LLC, to Judy Jenks and Steven Werbiskis, 78 Granville Road, Unit 18, $380,000. Humberto Colon to Elisia Wetherell, 8 Ellis St., $11,000. Joseph Pugliese to Emily J. Cimineri, 74 Otis St., $225,000. Mark S. Szafranski, representative, and Wanda H. Szafranski, estate, to Mark S. Szafranski, 30 Coolidge Ave., $160,000. Michael J. DiSanto, Michael L. DiSanto, Thomas L. DiSanto, Jane DiSanto, Jane Barci, Christopher DiSanto, Jonathan DiSanto, Sheila Kopatz and Sheila DiSanto to Brian A. Kuchachik, 31 Carroll Drive, $255,000. Raymond R. Strobel II, and Casandra Gamelli to Ryan N. Wheeler, 139 Union St., Unit 2, $170,900. Scott D. Helland to Erik W. Helland, 24 Laro Road, $97,500. Sharron M. Holmes to Ramon Diaz Jr., 6 Parker Ave., $175,000.
The tomato plants are on their way out, their beds prepped to receive beets - specifically golden beets, which seem to do better for me than red varieties and are more flavorful. The area where the kohlrabi and an earlier crop of beets grew is now a seed bed for chard and turnips. Autumn is my main season for lettuce, particularly the romaine, butterhead and other heading varieties, both full-size and mini types. The seed is slow to sprout in areas where the summer soil gets inordinately warm; some folks start them indoors and plant them out as small transplants. I’m hoping the corn will be ready in a couple of weeks, freeing a lot of space for the lettuce seed. The mid-August rip-out and replacement is the gardening equivalent of musical chairs, but it’s such a lovely tune. In the weeks ahead, the seedling thinning, watering, weeding and insect patrol is a significant commitment, obviously, but if someone were to give me the choice of one hour behind a shopping cart or three hours in the vegetable garden, the response would be simple: “Only three?”
WHATELY Bruce E. Cleare Jr., and Gail S. Cleare to Joseph N. Deschene and Kristin S. Deschene, 207 Chestnut Plain Road, $675,000.
WILBRAHAM Kevin R. Dumais, David R. Dumais and Teresa Dumais to Susan Straw and Robert Straw, 2205 Boston Road,Unit D-34, $149,000. Michael H. Fisher and Barbara A. Fisher to David M. Folli and Margaret C. Folli, 3 Marilyn Drive, $505,000. Priscilla S. Mortensen to Miguel A. Rodriguez, 44 Brooklawn Road, $328,000. Stephen J. Lajzer and Cynthia A. Lajzer to Amanda E. Lajzer, 13 Sunnyside Terrace, $200,000.
WILLIAMSBURG Edward M. Casey, Edward M. Casey Jr., Christine Casey and Christine E. Casey to Bartholomew E. Casey, 26 Nash Hill Road, $225,000.
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