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Waterwise Winter
Prepare for a Waterwise Winter
Protection is key in cooler months. Cold weather can pose a risk to your indoor and outdoor plumbing, which can lead to leaks and water waste.
Is your home ready for cooler weather? Here are some tips to help you prepare for a waterwise winter.
Change irrigation schedule
Adjust the program of your automatic landscape sprinkler system. Lawns need less irrigation during cooler months.
The HPWD sponsored “WaterMyYard” program, phone app, and website can help you with irrigation scheduling decisions.
Also, as we approach the first freeze, make sure your irrigation system is off when temps dip below 32 degrees.
Check status of coverings on outdoor faucets and pipes
Cover your outdoor faucets and insulate any exposed pipes. Freezing temperatures can cause outdoor pipes to burst, which can lead to wasted water, home damage, and costly repairs.
Check for indoor and outdoor leaks before freezing temps arrive
Check the inside and outside of your home for leaks. Leaks can waste thousands of gallons of water each year and cause costly damage to your home.
Update fixtures by installing high efficiency shower heads & faucet aerators
Looking for a weekend project? Autumn is a great time to update home fixtures. Installing high efficiency shower heads, faucet aerators, and new toilet flappers can help you save water year-round.
Stock Up
In case of a power outage, you’ll want to keep water on hand. Buy bottled water for an emergency drinking water supply, and store non-potable water for toilet flushing and other uses.
Mulch
With cooler weather, it is time to wrap up lingering gardening tasks. This includes adding more mulch to flower beds. Mulch helps keep moisture in the soil and can help regulate soil temperatures to protect your perennials all winter long. If you have fallen leaves on your property, these make great free mulch.
Plant perennials
Fall is a great time to plant perennials like Yarrow, Rudbeckia, and Bee balm. This is also the best time to sow wildflower seeds, since many varieties need colder temperatures before germinating in the spring.
By winterizing your home, you can avoid water waste and costly repairs to your home if a pipe freezes and bursts, as well as plan for a beautiful low water use landscape in the spring.
Water is our region’s most vital resource. It’s important to conserve it year-round. - hpwd.org
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Remember Cat Stevens? He came to prominence here in the early 1970s as a singer-songwriter responsible for such ethereal ballads as “Peace Train,” “Wild World,” “Moon Shadow” and “Morning Has Broken.”
He was equally popular in his home country of England at the same time, but to his British fans, he was probably more like Cat Stevens 2.0, a rocker revamped from the turbulent late 60s.
“Peace Train” was Stevens’s third entrée into the 1971 American Top Ten, the song being gleaned from his million-selling album “Teaser and the Firecat.” Arriving at a time of social upheaval (especially concerning the unpopular Vietnam conflict), “Peace Train” brought a message of hope and encouragement to his followers.
Infused with a Greekinfluenced calypso beat and powered by handclaps, violins and a gospel-tinged chorus, Cat’s hit offered an escape from the country’s malaise and a welcome to a world of tranquility and contentment via a metaphorical train ride. Who wouldn’t want to be on such a conveyance?
Born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948 in London, the youngest child of a Greek father and a Swedish mother, he developed a love of music and took to playing the family’s grand piano. But at 15, intoxicated by the success of the Beatles, he switched to the guitar and started creating tunes.
Steven set his heart on becoming a songwriter in the same vein as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. He signed a
publishing deal at 17 with a London music company and cut several original demos (demonstration records), including the future Tremeloes hit “Here Comes My Baby” and “The First Cut is the Deepest,” recorded later by Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow. He changed his stage name to Cat Stevens, in part because a girlfriend claimed he had eyes like a cat. Also, he has said, he couldn’t imagine anyone going into a record store to ask for a Steven Demetre Georgiou album.
Never a standout student, Stevens later dropped out of art college to become a velvet-suitwearing teen idol who placed three rock singles high on the British record charts. What followed for him was a schedule of personal appearances, recording sessions, and an indulgence in the seductive (and often destructive) world of the rock star.
He contracted tuberculosis and landed in a London hospital for a year-long recuperation. While taking stock of his life during that time,
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Stevens meditated, did yoga, became a vegetarian and considered different spiritual paths.
During his recovery, he composed numerous songs in an easy-going, folk-pop style, his new works more intimate than the hard-edged rockers that had first brought him fame in the UK.
“In the old days, I was more concerned with melody,” Cat said later. “Now it’s what I have to say.”
“Peace Train” became a fan favorite, and for a while, Cat Stevens ended every concert with his beloved (and still-relevant) anthem, which opened with unabated optimism:
Now I’ve been happy lately/Thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be/ Something good has begun
Golden Gazette • November 2021 • Page 7 Covenant Health nationally recognized for exceptional care
Covenant Medical Center is 5-star rated for several procedure outcomes according to new research released by Healthgrades, the leading resource that connects consumers, physicians and health systems.
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