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About.com Readers' Choice Awards 2012: Best Decking
As with the Best Decking awards contest for 2011, many readers were quite vocal about their reasons for voting for certain decking finalists. In fact, the conversation will continue. Congratulations to our winner for 2012 -- GeoDeck! And a shout-out to the finalists these decking companies and products have vocal many fans out there!
The Winner, Best Patio Furniture 2012: About.com Readers' Choice Awards
The winner of Best Patio Furniture for the 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards has been announced. Congratulations to Brown Jordan, for a second year of earning the most votes from the readers of About.com's Pool and Patio site!
What is a Home Haunt or Halloween Yard Haunt?
What is a home haunt? What's a yard haunt? What's a Halloween yard haunt? All three terms are used interchangeably to describe a residential-based haunted house, haunted yard or Halloween-decorated yard to be enjoyed and visited by neighbors, young trick-or-treaters, parents, friends, and the community, etc. Another way of looking at it: home haunts are the Halloween version of winter holiday and Christmas decorations festooning doors, entryways, porches, pathways, and yards.
DE Pool Filter - What is a DE Pool Filter?
DE stands for diatomaceous earth, which is a fine white powder made from the chemically inert, fossilized (or skeletal) remains of billions of microscopic organisms called diatoms. There are three types of filters used for pools: sand, cartridge, and diatomaceous earth (DE). Many pool owners and pool maintenance workers consider DE filters to be the best type of filter for residential swimming pools.
Memo to the President: Lose the Lawn
Roger Doiron of Kitchen Gardeners International is a Maine resident, environmentalist and gardening who campaigned since June 2008 to turn the White House lawn into a sustainable garden. Doiron continues to promote the concept and idea of kitchen gardens through his websites, speaking engagements and other planet-minded activities.
Profile: HomeAid Helps Find Houses for the Homeless
HomeAid is a national nonprofit organization with the mission to build dignified housing where homeless people and families can rebuild their lives. It acts as the liasion between service providers, volunteers, builders and contractors to build or renovate housing for the homeless. To date, HomeAid has 25 service provider partners and has built dozens of developments for the abused and abandoned, and for homeless people and families.
If Patio Furniture Were Porsches or Lamborghinis...
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