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Closet organization that lasts This June 2017 photo shows several stands of foxglove or digitalis growing wild on a parcel of roadside property near Langley, Wash. Although it produces beautiful blooms, foxglove can trigger irregular heart rates, seizures and breathing irregularity in dogs, cats, horses and a variety of other animals when eaten in quantity. All parts of the plant are considered toxic. Poisonous plants can harm your pets or your livestock. Learn to recognize toxic weeds and their symptoms. (AP photo)
Many plants can be poisonous to pets and livestock By DEAN FOSDICK Associated Press Not all plants are wholesome for foraging animals. Certain species of milkweed, for example, that are highly valued as host plants for the dwindling monarch butterfly population, are extremely poisonous to pets and to range animals like sheep, cattle and goats. Even freeranging chickens aren’t immune. Among potentially toxic poultry pickings are castor beans and certain mushrooms, although chickens don’t eat them as readily as do animals. Plant toxicity is directly related to dosage. How many were eaten, how healthy was the animal, how long do the toxins persist and what can be done? Some plants, like water hemlock, “can kill a cow in 15 minutes, while others, like buttercups, just leave a burning sensation in their mouths or tongues,” said Donna Foulk, an Extension educator with Penn State University. Ornamental plants either in or outside the home are frequently toxic, she said. Animal poisoning can be tough to diagnose, but symptoms range from difficulty breathing to refusing food, blistering and skin lesions to dizziness and diarrhea. Call a vet immediately if such conditions arise. Many weed varieties aren’t toxic unless environmental conditions make them so. “If plants pick up a lot of nitrogens from rain and rapid growth, and animals eat a lot of them, they can die,” said Mark Renz, a University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension weed scientist. The problem becomes even more acute during dry weather when pasture grasses go dormant and troublesome but persistent weeds become more enticing as fodder. Most of those weeds are unpalatable to animal taste buds but often are eaten when dried and mixed with other materials, like in a hay bale. “I know of a case where a llama died from eating baled hay that had milkweed in it,” Renz said. Pet owners may know that daffodil, tulip and hyacinth bulbs can be potentially poisonous to weed-grazing dogs, while Asiatic lilies can cause kidney failure in plant-eating cats. But people new to small scale or urban farming may not be aware that the roots and seeds of cabbage and broccoli can trigger digestive problems in pigs; foxglove or digitalis can produce irregular heart rates and rhythms in horses; rhubarb and tomato leaves can cause neurological damage to rabbits; iris rootstocks can result in breathing problems and scours in cattle; and as few as three medium to large oleander leaves can be lethal to llamas. What can be done to limit plant poison risks? “Try to know what’s out there — what’s toxic, and their symptoms,” Renz said. Additional suggestions from a Penn State University fact sheet: ¯ Keep animals healthy by maintaining good nutrition. See Garden p. 2D
This March 2016 photo shows daffodil drifts growing in a pasture near Langley, Wash. Daffodils may be among the first flowers to show their colors in spring but their bulbs contain poisons that can cause vomiting, seizures and even death should they be eaten by certain pets or livestock. Learn to recognize toxic plants and their symptoms. (AP photo)
By MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press Most people don’t start out with a messy closet. Even when a closet is carefully organized at the beginning, however, it might not take long for order to turn to chaos. “It’s common for clients to struggle with keeping the momentum going,” says interior designer Caitlin Murray. But there are planning and design strategies to help closets stay as organized as they were on day one. We’ve asked Murray, founder of the Los Angeles-based Black Lacquer Design, and two other experts — Delaware-based home designer and builder Marnie Oursler, and Elena Eskandari, an interior design specialist with Case Design/Remodeling in the Washington, D.C., area — for advice on planning and living with efficient and attractive closet space. KNOW YOUR STUFF AND YOURSELF The same closet design doesn’t work for everyone, so analyze the types of items you need to store. If you’ll be hanging a lot of clothes, are they long or short? You may want two levels of hanging space positioned one above the other to maximize storage, says Oursler. Have a lot of shoes? Consider a row of built-in shoe cubbies along the floor. Then choose a system you’ll actually stick with. If you plan to put everything on hangers but that’s an extra step that you’ll probably avoid, then you’ll end up with piles of clothes in your bedroom. While organizing, pare down: Even a well-planned closet may not stay organized if it’s very full. What do you really like and really wear? If you haven’t worn something in a while, Eskandari says, chances are you don’t need to keep it. Murray agrees: “You really limit what things you’ll actually utilize when you’re dealing with a cluttered closet. If you can’t see anything or find anything, it might as well not even be there.” SMALL, VISIBLE COMPARTMENTS “I think the success of any (closet) organization is how you divide stuff and compartmentalize it,” Eskandari says. She suggests separate spaces for everything, with more shelves fairly close together rather than a few spaced far apart. “How many sweaters can you fold without them falling over?” she asks. She’s also a fan of shelf dividers to keep one type of clothing or pantry item from another. If you have compartments for everything, she says, “then everything is going to have its home.” These designers acknowledge that built-in shelving and compartments can be expensive, but they say it’s often worth the investment for a really efficient master bedroom closet or kitchen pantry.
These photos provided by Case Design show closets designed by Elena Eskandari, an interior designer specialist at Case Design. A retractable shoe storage area in the closet shown above keeps shoes organized and easily visible for the homeowner. As you plan out a walk-in closet, consider the size of the items you'll be hanging. The closet pictured below has two levels of hanging space which offers room for a large collection of shirts and blouses. (AP photos)
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Cutting and gluing without being cut-throat By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. — They made you laugh, but can they make you craft? “Parks and Recreation” co-stars Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman are bringing the same silly, sweet sitcom vibe to reality television with “Making It,” a competition show that challenges contestants to craft everything from Halloween costumes to lawn furniture. Airing Tuesday nights on NBC, the show offers up an unapologetic antidote to bleak current events. “Life is stressful enough,” Poehler says in the opening episode. “Let’s make a show that makes people feel good.” That includes the contestants, who happily cut and glue without being cutthroat, sometimes even
This undated photo provided by NBC shows Amy Poehler at the Etsy headquarters in New York, during an event celebrating the premiere of "Making It," a competition show she co-hosts on NBC that challenges a group of makers to create everything from Halloween costumes to lawn furniture. (AP photo) helping each other if they finished a project early. Nicole Sweeney, an artist and woodworker from San Francisco, said she entered the competition nervous
and excited but emerged empowered. “They wanted to tell our stories and they believed in us, and in kind of in a weird way made me believe in
myself more,” she said. “Even though it was a competition, in so many ways it didn’t feel that way. It just felt like this incredible experience where I got to be surrounded by these other amazing artists and do what I love, and then have amazing feedback from the judges and get to hang out with Nick and Amy. It was such a dream.” The judges are famed Barneys window designer Simon Doonan and Etsy trend expert Dayna Isom Johnson. While both judges assessed how well makers executed the given theme for each project and the craftsmanship of their work, Johnson said they took slightly different approaches. Doonan was particularly interested in whether the makers were See Show p. 2D
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This graphic represents a Tuesday survey of regional lending institutions. Figures are based on rates at Range Bank, First Bank of Upper Michigan, the Marquette Community Federal Credit Union and mBank.
Ministry adds kindness to free home repair By MIKE TONY (Uniontown) Herald-Standard AP Member Exchange UNIONTOWN, Pa. — “You don’t have to be given anything,” Kiara Perez, 16, said while she and four others took a break from repairing a home on Searight Avenue in Uniontown. “Just giving back is enough.” Perez, 16, of St. Charles, Minnesota, was one of 343 teenagers across nine different states to travel last month to Laurel Highlands High School, their home base while they broke off into small groups to provide free home repair for elderly, low-income and disabled homeowners in the Uniontown area. The program was a partnership between Group Mission Trips, a Coloradobased nonprofit mission ministry, and the Neighborhood Partnership Program through Fayette County Community Action Agency. Teenagers sign up for work camps through Group Mission Trips, typically participating in fundraisers to pay for the chance to serve community residents in need through home repair, basic construction and painting. Traveling with their respective church organizations, teenagers age 14 and up served Uniontown area homeowners with typically one adult supervisor and fellow teens from other church organizations that they had never met, a deliberate arrangement designed to build new relationships and learning opportunities. They arrived July 22 and left six days later. “It’s strangers helping strangers,” said Ray Cerrone, an adult who came with a group of 56 from Shenendehowa United Methodist Church in Clifton Park, N.Y. Cerrone was the adult supervisor working along with Perez and three other teens from Minnesota, Connecticut and Ohio on the Searight Avenue home of Isabelle Taylor, 76, who was grateful for the free work they provided, including new front step construction, a repainted kitchen and living room repainting, carport repair and tree pruning. “I’m really truly blessed and grateful,” Taylor said, noting that as a fixed-income resident, she didn’t have enough savings for some home repair efforts. Cerrone and others recalled staying in places on mission trips during the hottest months of the year that didn’t have air conditioning, although they were thankful that Laurel Highlands High School wasn’t one of them. Instead of keeping their summer to themselves, the nearly 350 teens on the mission trip indicated their skill levels in four areas — painting, drywall, carpentry and roofing — and applied those
skills accordingly throughout 48 homes within a three-mile radius of Laurel Highlands High School. That scope of geographic eligibility was determined after Laurel Highlands agreed to host the mission trip members, who slept in classrooms and showered in locker rooms. “It’s totally worth it,” said Christina Hart, 17 of Glastonbury, Conn., as she, Perez, Cerrone and two others wrapped up work at Taylor’s home for the day on July 24. “Every time I do it, I feel a sense of achievement,” said Jacob Espinosa, 17, of Leverington Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, recalling having traveled to Cedar Grove, W.Va., for last year’s trip. Espinosa was a member of a double crew working on the Coolspring Street home of Norman Hall in North Union Township. Hall, 80, lives alone, and a tornado that swept through the area in February damaged his home. The mission group painted multiple rooms and reconstructed several parts of his home, with members of the Bruderhof’s New Meadow Run community finishing work that the group could not squeeze in during their stay. “I could never get to all that,” Hall said. Hall noted that the kids worked and played well with each other upon meeting one another for the first time, doing cartwheels and making a human pyramid in his backyard during work breaks. “They’re a good bunch,” Hall said. Marlene Kolosky, a project manager for FCCAA who oversaw the partnership between the Neighborhood Partnership Program and Group Mission Trips, noted that the program meant more than just home repair to homeowners. “It’s outreach, too,” Kolosky said. “It’s knowing someone cares about you.” Kolosky said that one resident was so thankful that he gave one of the mission workers an electric guitar. Nelda Henderson of Uniontown appreciated the work that the mission members did on her Whiteman Avenue home. “The group is wonderful,” Henderson said, recalling the affection group members had shown her dog Alethia. “ . Words cannot describe these kids.” The gratitude works both ways. In his fourth year of participating in the group’s mission trips, J.P. Brown of Pennington, N.J. appreciates that the program, based in the Christian faith, unites members from across the country with the single purpose of helping people.
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Close t from 1D Oursler notes that a closet with lots of built-ins may allow you to eliminate dressers and other storage pieces from your bedroom. “If we can put that storage in the closet,” she says, the bedroom will feel larger and more peaceful, and may even have space for a sitting area. As you plan these areas, focus on what you use most. “Store the items you reach for most often in the places where you have the easiest access, so you’re not constantly pushing everything around to find one thing,” says Murray. And use transparent storage (glass-faced cabinets or clear acrylic drawers are great if you’re doing built-ins, or clear bins on shelves) to make access even easier. KEEP IT SIMPLE FOR KIDS “Kids have what I call a ‘rule of two moves.’ If it takes them more than that to put something away, it’s not going to go anywhere,” says Eskandari. “Don’t put as many hangers into childrens’ closets. They just won’t use them.” Oursler agrees that kids often do better with bins or baskets on shelves and simple cubbies for shoes. If you’d rather your kids
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This photo provided by Marnie Homes shows a bathroom and bedroom area designed by Marnie Oursler. Kids are more likely to place items on shelves, especially if they can drop clothing in baskets, or use hooks rather than hangers to put away their clothing, says designer and builder Oursler, host of the DIY Networks series “Big Beach Builds.” (AP photo) hang things up, hooks are more likely to get used than hangers. “Don’t overcomplicate things for kids or teenagers,” says Eskandari. GREAT LIGHTING, FUN STYLE Murray recommends including plenty of light (natural light when possible) and painting closets “in a clean, bright paint, which not only makes any space feel a bit bigger but it also makes the closet that much more functional.” Eskandari agrees: You can improve your closet’s lighting with minimal expense, she
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¯ Eliminate or fence around any poisonous plants or trees in and adjacent to pastures. ¯ Mow pastures to reduce weeds. ¯ Do not throw garden or lawn clippings into pastures and do not plant trees, ornamental shrubs or plants near barns or pastures. It can be risky to let dogs and cats wander around lawns or gardens after herbicides
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taking risks and pushing themselves, while she was looking for a “wow” factor, something that would jump out at her among the deluge of items she sees every day on Etsy.com. The show is replete with puns — “I macramade you and I can macrabreak you just as easily,” says Poehler. “This conversation makes me want to lay down and DIY,” Offerman answers. But Johnson said the more serious goal is to inspire viewers to embrace their own creativity. As springboards, she cited two big trends in the crafting and design world — the Danish concept of “hygge” that em-
says. Being able to see what you’ve got will help you use and enjoy those items more often. Aim for several different light sources, she says, rather than one overhead light. And cheer up the space with bold paint colors and wall coverings. Your master-bedroom closet is a space you visit at the start and end of every day. So make it fun. As Murray says, closets will “feel that much more special and boutique” if you add items like “wallpaper, a dramatic chandelier and a luxe rug.”
and pesticides have been applied. “But in most urban settings, most of the chemicals have been tested and are fairly innocuous,” Renz said.
Online: For more, see this animal specific fact sheet about Plants Poisonous to Livestock from Cornell University: http://poisonousplants.ansci.cornell.edu/php/plants.php?ac tion=display&ispecies=horses You can contact Dean Fosdick at deanfosdick@netscape.net
phasizes cozy living, and the Japanese notion of wabi sabi which finds beauty in imperfection. “I think the next phase of that is, ‘OK, you’re home, now what do you do? Maybe you’re spending time with family and friends and hopefully you’re getting creative and making things together,” she said. Offerman, a skilled woodworker himself, said he and Poehler were grateful they didn’t have to judge the projects but could instead offer encouragement as they got to know the contestants. “Every day, I was inspired by the creativity of the makers and would often think to myself, ‘Wow, I think I can do that,’ although I have no
experience with knitting or glass blowing,” he said. “I hope viewers at home feel the same inspiration.”
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