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A meditation on stuff Brian Hollander

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y screen crapped out. The six year old screen that illuminates the words I type on the two year old keyboard, powered by the six year old computer tower. Just gone, the screen. Get it fixed? Hah. Cost more than a new one. Throw it away. Not so fast. Have to take it to an electronics recycling site. I’m angry, the damned thing. Six years, and not meant to last any longer. Hopelessly outdated, it’s even square, not rectangular, and even those will soon be obsolete and you’ll be out buying curved ones. Absently, in my resentment, I open a drawer in the kitchen, and fish out a wooden clothespin with a metal spring, simple as can be, to hold a bag of cereal closed. It snaps, efficiently, all of its ancient buoyancy intact, the groove that’s meant to encircle a clothesline putting a gentle pressure on my finger. Its design goes back to the 1850s, improved in 1887 with the single wired “coiled fulcrum” providing the spring action. This one here, who knows how old it is. It’s been around as long as we’ve had stuff, and maybe through generations before. Certainly longer than my computer screen.

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o this section is about home improvement, and there are articles in here about taking care of your trees, cleaning out your

gutters; painting your house; even one about getting rid of stuff, how that can improve your environment. But can’t your home be improved by being filled with things that work? Simple things. I look in the same drawer, and there’s a wooden handled ice cream scoop. Oh, I’m not sure if it’s a Gilchrist No. 31 or a red-handled Peerless, but there it is, a classic hemi-spherical

disher (‘scoop’ is a misnomer, actually meaning a cylindrical sort of measuring device) with a flawless geared thumb-lever slider that frees the orb of frozen delight and deposits it in your cone. Check these babies out on e-Bay and you’ll see they can go for over $200. Not this one, but it’s still maybe 60 or 70 years old. And it works.

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11, 2014 4 | Sept. Home Hudson Valley est tenured items in your household that still do what they were originally designed to do? Violet tells me she’s got her great great grandfather’s civil war diary that he started in 1861, and about which she’s written for Ulster Publishing. And her grandfather’s kitchen table, from the 1960s or 1970s. Don’t laugh, that’s a half century. Then she hits on it. “I have a brace drill that I got 15 years ago at a yard sale. I use it to tap the maple tree, and sometimes I use it just be-

cause I like it better,” she says. “It’s got a wooden handle and a wooden knob on the top. Its gears have a smooth movement, and I’ve never done anything to it. I used it a few weeks ago to put up a toilet paper holder.” Now we’re talking. Another friend tells me he has a refined ceramic funerary urn crafted in the Longüen District, during the Yüan Dynasty dated between 1279 and 1368, during the era of Mongol Rule after the Kubla Khan completed the conquest of China. That one wins

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the prize for age, and if you put your ashes in it, it will still do what it is designed for. Getting into the spirit of it, I hear about rocking chairs, 80 to 100 years in the same family, still gently swaying back and forth on their runners, one that needed recaning. How about old newspapers from World War II? Look back and see history’s first draft and try to discern if the accounts in there square with the history we teach now. A different fellow cites an 1890 Winchester model 1890, .22 cal rifle from his neighbor’s grandpa. “I can still hit tin cans at 25 yards with it.” “My Great Grandmother’s Bible.” “An old record player from the 1920s or 30s, that still works. But my five year old CD player doesn’t.” “Old salad tongs, they’ve lost their spring, probably should be thrown away.” “Jewelry, a beautiful cameo that my father got my mother.” I think about the 1888 S.S. Stewart banjo, called an ‘Amateur’ model that my sister found uncased and decrepit in a basement at an estate sale. My son restored it. It’s not ornate in the least, and in the final analysis, not worth too much, especially as banjos go, but you put some old gut strings on it, like it’s supposed to have, and it frails with a voice so sweet, it could only take you back 126 years. A few folks mention silver dollars. I have a couple, with one going back to 1883. The classic Morgan silver dollars from the 1880s, with Lady Liberty in profile on the front and an eagle on the back are beautiful examples of this fine art. And they manage still to do what they’ve always done — only better. At 90 percent silver and ten percent copper, once they held a dollar’s worth of buying power. Now they can be worth anywhere from $20 to $1500, depending on the markings or if they have been in circulation or not.

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hat does it all mean? Well, nothing, really. It can be just a way to soothe the frustration I feel when the hunk of plastic and wires, and oh, yes, chips, turn and give up the ghost of existence in a mere couple of years. I’m still going to have to go out and buy a new one, and I’m not going to use my Morgans on it. But in a way we look back on the simplicity and practicality of some of these objects and learn great appreciation for them. They’re always there, serving us, doing what they’ve always done. They’ve touched the hands of people who have come and gone, maybe who were related to us and they keep us connected to forebears who we never knew except through shared DNA. And I ask you, is that not home improvement?

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Prepare your home for fall and winter Save money and enhance safety by preparing your home now for fall. Brad Will

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ere’s a checklist of tips on recommended, healthy-home preparations as we head into the cooler nights of fall, and the chilly, dry and icy days and nights of winter.

Clean Chimney Prevent chimney fires resulting from flue creosote buildup, which can also hinder the venting of dangerous carbon monoxide gases. Cleaning ensures efficient fireplace operation. Use a professional, certified chimney sweep.

Weatherstrip Doors Cold drafts can leak through under-sealed door jambs and thresholds. Replace old or damaged seals with new vinyl or foam weatherstripping. Kits of various widths are available at most hardware stores. partments, insures proper and efficient performance, and replaces worn moving parts like pump and belts.

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11, 2014 8 | Sept. Home Hudson Valley gled. Well, mostly asbestos shingled except for one spot where I broke one off to see what was underneath (clapboard which I dreamed of one day taking it all back down to, could I ever scrape up the money to do so). After a few years working on the huge old house’s 15-plus rooms, with what equity (sweat and financial) that I could afford, I started painting its trim. The paint looked nice. It was affordable. I was pleased. But then my dad came up with my brother for a long weekend and decided to surprise me one day I was at work by hiring the equipment, and cheap paint, to spray the entire house white before my return. They proved enthusiastic painters. Even the windows and surrounding lawn and bushes all got hit. I spent the next years using the entire episode as my homegrown example of the concept of passiveaggressive as applied to home improvement.

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After we moved, our neighbors who bought the place had all the freshlypainted red siding ripped off and replaced with white clapboard. home repairs). A portion of it had been stained schoolhouse red. As our romance slid through honeymoon into the day-to-day struggle of marriage, I started imagining all I could accomplish by finishing everything around our manse that had never been finished. I was especially spurred on after the neighbors came into money and started upgrading their places. Our diverse hamletlike neighborhood had a village feel, with us the slum. Again, money and time became the challenge. This time, the abyss I slipped into involved a summer visit from three nieces and nephews in their early teens who we enlisted to paint the side of our house. Suffice it to say that the result, after spilled paint and the need to purchase new outfits for each of them, was a single side of our house covered as much in handmarks and footprints. They certainly had a singular sense of siding. Inevitably, we had it all redone a few years later, this time employing some local kids who took three months to finish the job. By this time we were ready to move. After we did, our neighbors bought the place and had all the freshly-painted red siding ripped off and replaced with white clapboard.

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ur most recent home is classically situated on one of our village’s main streets. This time, we included enough in our mortgage to paint the complicated back side of the place, complete with its three porches, in our first year. We got the second and third sides the next year, hiring a bucket truck to help with the second- and third-floor portions of the job. We hired a friend who was a house painter and bought some paint from Sherwin Williams. Alas, during the recent economic downturn, with computer needs and a thousand other priorities eating up what extra money we had, the project ground to a halt. My wife and I have each considered resuming the job at times when we have less work than usual. We talk about how to work with a bucket truck this time, and where to park it given our tenants upstairs. More importantly, we’ve wondered how much damage would occur from our trying to get to the top gables facing our street, especially given the wiring entering the house. Maybe a professional would be best again? But our friend, the house painter, has seen his music career take off since last he climbed the ladders at our place. Suffice it to say we haven’t bought more paint yet, or even considered doing so. We’ve done some research. We learned that Sherwin Williams and the other paint stores do have great deals, and that at certain times of the year so do the big hardware stores, local and chain. How long can we let this go, we wonder? I worry about the strange rains that come more frequently these days, and how the leaks are coming in strange places. A good paint job’s like new skin, I suspect. There are the neighbors to think about. I harbor lingering thoughts about eventually selling the place and moving somewhere with better schools

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ing someone, some summer, to finish what we’ve started with our big house. How much? Hey, with paint, equipment and the like, we figure $5000 a side isn’t bad. And it might be lower. With whatever’s left over, we figure, we can just start the cycle yet again, dreaming of stone and brick and maybe even sticks and straw.

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Hard feelings Why small hardware stores are special by Will Dendis

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hen it comes to price and inventory, it’s hard to beat a big-box store. Small hardware stores are still around because they offer something different: A place that feels like home, where you go for help fixing your home, often run by a family. Good hardware stores are staffed by people who know their stuff, who can guide customers through projects they can handle and let them know what they can’t. Compared to the airplane-hangaresque corporate operations, they may seem cramped. As The New York Times once described it, “The better the hardware store, the fewer things it carries that come in little plastic boxes or shrink wraps. The better the store, the more things it carries that are loose in wooden bins or little metal drawers. A good hardware store has been there a long time and the building is too small. The best ones are crammed from the loor to the ceiling; the countertops are shelves that over low into the aisles.” That may sound like an ode to endearing disorder, but there’s order in the chaos. In a September 2014 test, Popular Mechanics found it was much Above, Rick Majestic has a handful of nails; right, Louie Benson with customer at True Value of New Paltz. PHOTOS BY WILL DENDIS

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faster to ill a sample do-it-yourself project shopping list at small hardware store compared with a big one — eight minutes to 28 minutes. We spoke with several local hardware stores about what makes them different, some interesting projects they’ve been a part of, what people are (or should be) doing with their homes this fall, and other assorted wisdom. What’s the difference between a big-box hardware store and a small independent? Laura Majestic, Majestic Hardware, Gardiner. The big difference is we know our products. We can lead you to them. You feel like you’re home. It’s a home atmosphere. This has been a family-run business since 1947. There’s a nephew, and my husband, his mom and dad started the business, then he took over, and our daughter is stepping up to take over, so it’s all family. She just had a baby who’s going to be working here one day (laughs). Rick Majestic, Majestic Hardware. We have knowledge. We can tell you how to ix stuff. With plumbing and electric. Louie Benson, True Value of New Paltz. Personalized service. The knowledge. The entire experience is done by a person. You walk in, somebody greets you, somebody shows you [your item], somebody loads your car. It’s the service. The people that work here have all been here ten or 15 years. I think that the smaller store demands a more experienced person. Brian Murphy, Marbletown True Value Hardware. We’re much more personable. We offer

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one-on-one service. Customers are used to us, myself and my staff. They’re used to seeing the same friendly faces. I can say to people, it doesn’t matter the size of the purchase, it’s the satisfaction. So people will come in and need one little screw for like twelve cents and we’ll spend a half-hour with them ’til we get that right. Turn around and they buy $1200 worth of paint next time, you never know. What’s the most interesting project you’ve ever helped a customer with? Louie Benson. A guy came in and was building a

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Houses that are part of Matt Bua’s B-Home project of “improvised buildings� using “only found and discarded materials to create a series of uncoded, sculptural buildings...� er lines running north from Ulster County into Catskill towards Albany. He describes his process. “Ideas pushed into fast construction, rather than being slowly and safely filtered through stages of cumbersome planning and production ... a sense of possibility born out of innovation, frustration and whimsy.� Bua’s B-Home Park, as he calls his collection of three dozen structures, habitable and not, fits into a number of local building traditions, from Native American loghouses and more temporary traveling habitats through Colonial initiatives to

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‘I was around ten when I pulled an old dresser outside and put a piece of plywood over it and realized I had a place I could hang out in and stay dry when it rained…’ sion for the square shape, or the history of modern building — and living — that he believes has put our world in peril, naturally and spiritually. Looks are deceiving. What he builds is sturdy as all getout, and totally grounded in practicality. A couple of years ago, soon after his daughter’s birth, Bua spoke about his move to the area eight or nine years ago, and how he started building up here after winning a “ridiculously low bid” on the property where B-Home now is. He moved upstate with the leftovers of all he’d been building for the previous decade. He came to a realization as to where his building frenzy had come from, and how he first realized it. “I was around ten when I pulled an old

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building them, do a bit more. I needed some place to keep my materials, my stuff.” So he came up to Catskill. Bua, whose constructions and design sensibility is attracting increasing attention both locally and internationally, explains how he sees what he’s doing in terms of the earth’s evolution. “On July 15, 1972 at 3:30 p.m. the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis, MO was imploded. According to Charles Jencks, this marked the end of the modernist architectural movement. Thus began Post-Modernism,” he writes in an essay, “Nature as Habitat Versus Unnatural Tit for Tat,” in his own Architectural Inventions. “Then the three World Trade Center towers went down, this should have signaled the end of the Post-Modern era. We’re now in the Post-Post realm. And hold your breath. When the sea rises that foot and the sandy inadequate foundations of the Dubai world go bad, we’ll say that the Post-Post-Post world has just begun. Three’s a charm.” For more on Matt Bua’s B-Home experiments, visit http://bhomepark.blogspot.com. And start building differently.

dresser outside and put a piece of plywood over it and realized I had a place I could hang out in and stay dry when it rained,” he said. “I figured that was a great thing to have created. And later I envisioned a little house park, which I made a drawing of, which would be made up of every type of building one could imagine, made small and nonthreatening. I started collaborating, doing twelve projects a year in public spaces.” The Earth’s evolution One of his projects involved a museum space on Governor’s Island that was like some building which had spilled its guts out. Another was a history of Roosevelt Island. There was a “parasitic museum” attached to the rear of the Brooklyn Museum and a stage construction for a Richard Foreman Ontological Theater production. He made a clubhouse out of junk at the Socrates Sculpture Park along the East River in Queens and a soundproof crate world and later “space station” moved out to Islip, Long Island. He built an observatory, and eventually he did a mass of construction at MassMOCA. “I just kept making things you could hide out in and not get wet in when it rained,” Bua explained.

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ere’s a good place to begin: The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) will be hosting its next Household Hazardous Waste and Pharmaceutical Waste Collection Day on Saturday, October 18, 2014. The agency defines Household hazardous waste as: “the discarded, unused or leftover portion of household products containing toxic chemicals.” All of the labels above, “Warning,” “Caution,” “Poisonous,” etc. apply here. According to Michelle Bergkamp, Ulster’s County Recycling Coordinator, and the UCRRA web site, you can bring automotive products (transmission fluid, brake fluid, antifreeze, kerosene and gasoline), pesticides and herbicides, small propane tanks, solvents and thinners, varnishes and waxes, household cleaners and corrosives, pool and photographic chemicals, mercury switches and thermometers, fluorescent bulbs, oil-based paints, car batteries and expired/unused over-the-counter or prescription medications. The household hazardous waste and pharmaceutical waste collection program is limited to Ulster County households…” Only Ulster County households with appointments will be allowed to participate in this event. Fill out the form at http:// ucrra.org/electronics-recycling/. But, the UCRRA advises, do not dispose of liquid chemicals, banned pesticides, or motor oil in

the trash; do not use storm sewers for disposal of chemical waste; do not mix chemical wastes together; never reuse any pesticide or chemical containers for other purposes. “Paint is a big one… oil based paints, polyurethane…” says Bergkamp. The agency advises, when buying paint, you should try to purchase only what you need. Use any leftover paint for second coats or touch-ups. If you have extra paint you may donate it to a community group, school or theater group. Never throw away leftover paints in liquid form into the trash. Latex paint is not hazardous and can be safely disposed of by leaving the lid off the can and allowing it to dry completely, or mixing paint with sawdust or cat litter type materials until the paint is absorbed and no longer in liquid form. You then may dispose of it in your regular trash. Empty paint cans should be placed in the trash and not in your recycling container. Leftover oil-based paint should be saved for the hazardous waste collection program. Latex paint is not hazardous and will not be accepted at the event. Driveway sealers, roof coatings and adhesive cans that are already empty or contain resi-

has due that h hardened, should also be placed in the trash and not brought to a household hazardous waste collection event. What about those electronics? For those you don’t have to wait for a Household Hazardous Waste day. Bergkamp tells us that the UCRRA accepts electronics for free recycling Monday thru Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its facility located at 999 Flatbush Road in Kingston. Acceptable electronics include TVs (all sizes and shapes), CPUs, monitors, laptops, printers, scanners, fax machines, keyboards, mice, speakers, copiers, VCR/DVD players, portable music players, digital converter boxes, cable/satellite receivers, CD players, telephones and telephone equipment, cell phones, video game consoles, digital cameras, PDAs/calculators, stereo and radio equipment, electric typewriters, microwaves, toasters, irons, blenders, mixers, coffeemakers, vacuums and other small household appliances. These items can also be taken to any UCRRA transfer station, and they are: Denning Town Barn, Denning Rd., Claryville, 845-985-2543; Esopus, on Floyd Ackert Rd, West Park, 845-3846835, and they accept Tires, scrapmetal, used oil, Yard waste, textiles; in Gardiner, on Steve’s Lane, 845-255-9775, also accepting Auto batteries, used oil, tires, scrap metal, propane tanks, freon appliances; Hardenburgh, 845-439-3681; in Hurley, at 1043 Dug Hill Rd, 845-338-5412, where you can bring styrene foam peanuts, auto batteries, used oil, oil filters, scrap metal, yard waste, textiles, tires, brush. In the city of Kingston, there’s Municipal Curbside Collection on the same days as garbage pickup. You can call for metal pick-up, 845-331-0682, and they’ll take scrap metal (inc. white goods) and yard waste; The town of Kingston has curbside collection on Fridays, 845-336-8853. in Lloyd on Lily Lake Road, 845-691-8274 and you can take auto batteries, tires, scrap metal, yard waste, freon appliances; Marbletown’s is on Canal Rd, High Falls, 845-687-7601, and they accept tires (off rim only) scrap metal, auto batteries, yard waste; in Marlborough on Bailey Gap Rd, Milton, 845-7952314 and they’ll take used oil, auto batteries, tires, scrap metal, yard waste. The New Paltz Transfer Station is on Clearwater Rd, off Route 32, three miles north of village, 845-255-8456, accepting freon appliances, oil filters, auto batteries, used oil, tires, scrap metal, textiles; in Olive on Beaverkill Road, 845- 657-8177, taking auto batteries, used

Sept. 11, 2014 Home Hudson Valley oil, oil filters, antifreeze, tires, scrap metal, yard waste; Plattekill, on Freetown Road, 845-8837331, accepting Auto batteries, tires, scrap metal, yard waste; in Rochester on Airport Road, 845626-5273, taking books(!), auto batteries, tires, scrap metal, yard waste, textiles; in Rosendale on Whiteport Road, 845-338-0113, accepting auto batteries, oil, yard waste, tires, scrap metal, textiles, fluorescent bulbs; Saugerties (also serving Woodstock), on Route 212, between the two towns, 845679-0514, good place to take your NiCd and auto batteries, tires scrap metal, yard waste; Shandaken, at the Town Hall, Route 28, 845-688-5004 takes regulated recyclables only: Shawangunk, on River Road, 845-895-2894, and it accepts used oil, tires, scrap metal, yard waste, textiles; town of Ulster, on Miron Lane, off Rt. 9W (behind ShopRite), 845-336-0311, takes tires, scrap metal, yard waste; and in Wawarsing on Landfill Rd., off Rt. 209, 845-647-3410, accepts used oil, tires, scrap metal, yard waste, textiles.

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ere are some things that require more attention. • No Freon containing appliances such as air conditioners, dehumidifiers or refrigerators are accepted with the electronics program. Bergkamp says that these items require special handling. “You have to evacuate the Freon, first. We do take them here and charge an additional fee. Residents can take them to local town transfer station, and they will get a fee on top of the disposal fee. Have to be handled properly first. Just bring the whole thing,” she says. • CFL (compact fluorescent lightbulbs), those curlicue lightbulbs? “Both Lowes and Home Depot have collection facilities for free for compact fluorescent, CFL lightbulbs. Or bring them to household hazardous waste collection days.” • And what about those mattresses? “Bring them to town transfer stations. When people clean out their basements or garages, the larger items can be brought here, the bulk materials…” Bergkamp says. “The minimum load fee is $20 after that it’s prorated…” • Styrofoam and packaging peanuts? The agency says that lightweight “peanuts” made from expanded polystyrene (EPS) contain 25 to 100 percent recycled materials. The Plastic Loose Fill Council has a “Peanut Hotline” (800-828-2214) you can call to find local recycling centers, including chain-store shippers such as Pak Mail and The UPS Store. (Example: The UPS Store located in the Kings Mall Court in Kingston, NY; (845) 3364877). The Town of Hurley Recycling Center also collects clean packaging peanuts for recycling. To recycle large, molded chunks of EPS used to cushion televisions, air conditioners and such, contact the Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers. • Tires? UCRRA will accept tires at either Transfer Station (New Paltz or Kingston).Tires may be brought to your Municipal Recycling Drop-off Center. For large loads of tires, you can contact Casings Tire Recycling at 518-943-9404, located in Catskill. You can also contact Unity Creations, Inc. at 877-41-UNITY, located in Saugerties. • Ammo and explosives — ammunition can be taken to police stations. Contact law enforcement to dispose of explosives. • Friable and non-friable asbestos — “non-hazardous, non-friable type that is used in shingles, etc., just bag it up. The Hazardous kind, don’t remove yourself, contract with approved demo company, abatement company.” Dutchess County Dutchess County is also in the game. It will be holding its own 2014 Household Hazardous and Electronic Waste Disposal Days at the DCRRA, 96 Sand Dock Road, Poughkeepsie, beginning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, November 1. You have to preregister and pre-pay, and you do this by calling 845-463-6020 or by seeing www.DCRRA.org, then sending a check for $5 payable to: ‘DCRRA’ Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency, NY 12601. This program is for Dutchess County residents only. \ Here’s what they want you to bring: product containers marked “Warning,” “Hazardous,” “Flammable,” Poisonous” or “Corrosive. Photo chemicals, non-latex driveway sealer, pool chemicals, creosote, kerosene, flammable liquids, metal polish, turpentine, stains, varnishes, strippers, thinners, gasoline/oil mixture, brake fluid, auto fluids, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical

fertilizers, adhesives, resins, solvents, oil and lead based paints (no latex!), mercury containing devices, button cell batteries for watches and hearing aids, computer monitors, CPU’s, fax machines, printers, TV’s, stereos, telephones and cell phones, lithium and sealed lead acid batteries, fluorescent bulbs and tubes. Here’s what not to bring: ammunition or explosives, asbestos products, latex driveway sealer and latex paint, building or construction debris, tires, furniture, medical waste or medicines, propane or other flammable gas cylinders, radioactive materials, scrap metal, metal drums or empty containers, motor oil, car batteries and antifreeze. Here are some tips: Latex Paint — add kitty litter or sawdust to dry out remaining paint, and then place the can in your regular trash; AAA, AA, C, D, 9 Volt and lantern batteries are regular household trash; Rechargeable Nickel Cadmium Batteries — call 1-800-8-Battery for most convenient local disposal location; Automotive Batteries, Motor Oil and Antifreeze — drop off at auto centers. Here are some other places in and around Dutchess County where you can dispose of those difficult to get rid of items, according to the DCRRA web site: for bulk institutional items, such as commercial surplus, furniture, building materials, clothing, mattresses etc, try Institution Recycling Network, 603-229-1962; for Fluorescent Light Bulbs and Lead Acid Batteries, call American Lamp, Wappingers, 845-896-0058; for Waste Oil - any kind, fuel, engine, motor etc, try Bruckner Waste Oil, New Windsor, 845-5344259; for Oil Rags and Waste Oil, any kind fuel, engine, motor etc. call Vas-Co Reclaiming Service, Highland, 845-691-6246; Concrete and Other Masonry Waste — use RCT, of Poughkeepsie, 845471-8700, or Recycle Depot, at 845-452-3939. For Freon disposal, try Second Nature Recycling, 845-883-7100 ask for Curt or Loretta; Darling International in New Jersey, 973- 465-1900 collects Fryer Oil; for Stumps, call Outback Stump Recycling in Red Hook, at 845-758-2887 and ask for Butch. Habitat For Humanity ReStore Ah, but there’s more. Got some big stuff, but no way to haul it off? If the item (s) are usable, in decent shape, you can call Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, which might just come and pick it up, for resale at its ReStore, 406 Route 28 Kingston. “Repurposing is one of our goals,” says John LaValle, Habitat’s president. “Reutilization…we’re keeping 200 tons of stuff out of the landfill. But we can’t take stuff in that we have to then turn around and dispose of.” He says that if you need

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something picked up, “we ask people to take a photo with cell phone or digital camera and send it along to us and we’ll take a look at it.” The email address is donations@ulsterhabitat.org. You can also drop off materials, by filling out a Donation Receipt form at ulsterhabitat.org and bring it with you when you drop off your donations on the lower parking level Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Habitat can’t accept tube TV’s, mattresses, dishwashers and plumbing fixtures manufactured prior to January 2014. Here’s what the organization will accept: Appliances, 7 years or newer; Cabinets and Countertops — solid wood fronts with all drawers and doors; Doors, except shower and hollow core w/o jam; Hardware — all types and fasteners; flooring, unused carpet, 100 sq ft minimum; Furniture with no rips, stains, smells or broken parts; Linoleum, unused, 25 sq ft minimum; HVAC — furnaces, bathroom fans and vents; Lawn and Garden tools, fencing, bricks and pavers; Lighting and Electrical — Light fixtures, new electrical supplies; Lumber and Siding — 5 feet or longer, no nails or screws; Paint — Latex paint in undamaged, unopened,original containers w/labels. No oil based or stains; Sinks and Fixtures — clean, no chips, cracks or scratches; Roofing Asphalt, wood metal, tar paper Tile, Quantities over 10 sq ft; Tools and Equipment — in good working order with all parts; Windows, vinyl or wood, undamaged, unfogged in working order; antiques. Antiques. Habitat says that for items it does not accept, you can contact People’s Place, a thrift story and food pantry at 773 Broadway, Kingston, 845-3384030. Old reliable SA And finally, there is the old reliable Salvation Army, which will pick up tons of stuff, including, according to its web site, air conditioner, air purifier aquarium, armoire, art (framed), barbecue, bet, bedframe, bicycle, big screen tv, blender, bookcase, books, boxsprings, briefcase, bunkbed, cabinet, camcorder, camera, camper shell, Car seat, cart, cd player, chair, chest of drawers, china cabinet, clock, clothes, coffee tabke, computer — desktop or laptop, cooler, couch, credenza, crib, daybed, desk, dining set, dishwasher, dresser, dryer, dve player, end table, exercise equipment, fan, filing cabinet, futons, golf clubs, guitars, highchair, ironing board, jewelry, ladders… you get the picture. They tell you that the Salvation Army trucks may be able to pick up your donated goods. Fill out the form at Satruck.org to find out if pickup service is available, or call 1-800-SA-TRUCK.

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Structural problems Despite a healthy head of leaves, a tree might have wounds or cracks that compromise the integrity of the trunk. A multitude of dead limbs can indicate internal problems, but a tree with scattered dead branches might still be stable. “Dead limbs are good to take out,� said Rist. “I often look for parts of trees higher up that should come out, not necessarily the whole tree.� In recent years, woolly adelgid infestation has threatened local hemlocks, while the emerald ash borer is attacking ash trees. Adelgids leave bits of white “wool� among the needles and later cause die-off of twigs and branches. Ash borers make holes in the bark shaped like the letter “D�, eventually infesting the bark with larvae that at-

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ing 60 to 100 years, but Rist cautioned, “It’s not the age of the tree so much as the history of what happens to it. All trees are subject to decay and disease.” Any tree that looks unhealthy should be evaluated by a professional if it’s growing near a house. Rist is especially inclined to take out questionable trees on the north or northwest side of a house, since storms tend to blow from those directions. Cabling may be a viable way to save codominant leaders or heavy limbs that the homeowner wishes to keep. Cables should be installed professionally, said Rist, and never secured by

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