Lifestyle

In the kitchen with Sharon this week is my new friend Debbie Hicks with her delicious pumpkin bread. Not only did she make it, she brought me in two loaves to work ( I shared it, of course). It didn’t last long.

As Americans prepare to enjoy Halloween next week, the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is offering six DOs and DON’Ts to help families and friends keep their loved ones living with dementia-related illnesses safe and comfortable.

In the kitchen with Sharon this week I am making a caramel apple poke cake. Who doesn’t love apples and caramel?

In the kitchen this week with Sharon is my good friend Patricia Nicholes with her warm , crisp and sweet apple fritters. Yum. Doesn’t this sound delicious. I need one now. Let’s go to the kitchen and make them.

They’re back! Telltale cones of mud in your lawn are a signal that mole season is upon us, and if you do nothing, moles will take over your entire yard. Doing nothing is not an option. Over the years we’ve tried numerous ways to eliminate moles from our lawns, from traps of various kinds to the trusty 12-guage, and only one has actually made a real difference.

In the kitchen with Sharon this week is Patricia Nicholes with her recipe for crock pot pepper steak.

Have you ever tried planting hardy mums and had them fail to come back the following year? Fall mums are perennial flowers that can grow and bloom in your landscape year after year, if you handle them properly. One secret to success is to buy them before they bloom and plant them right away. The sooner you plant mums the happier they’ll be. Mums that are trapped in a small pot for too long, or allowed to dry out, rarely come back the following year. If your goal is to have hardy perennial mums, you should treat them as you would any other container-grown flower or vegetable plant.

Hello! In the kitchen this week I found this great recipe for caramel apple dip. It’s easy to make and does not have a lot of ingredients.

The words “wildflower meadow” summon a mental picture of colorful blooms waving in the wind, fluttering butterflies, and busy honeybees buzzing from bloom to bloom. This lovely picture invites you to wade through a fragrant sea of waist-high blooms, a magnet for wildlife with color from early spring through frost.

With cold and flu season upon us, it’s time to protect yourself, not only from those seasonal threats, but also from other health risks.