Energy Saving Tips For the Summer - 06/21/10 02:14 PM
Ideas on how to keep your house cool during the heat of the summer  
Although meteorological summer commenced on June 1, I still raised my coffee cup to the official start of summer with the equinox at 7:28 a.m this morning.  However, if the rest of the country is anything like Massachusetts, summer started sometime after the last snow melted in March and has faded in and out between springtime rains and fall-like chills.  So, in between those weeks where we've had to turn the heat back on, or turn it off and open the windows, we've also had several days where the humidity has ratcheted … (0 comments)

It's never too late to start your "spring cleaning" - 06/10/10 03:26 PM
Home maintenance ideas for late spring


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In Eastern Massachusetts, we never know when Spring will arrive.  Sometimes we go straight to Summer from the cold Winter; other times we have a "wet season" between the Winter and Summer - and other years, like 2010, we have a "quasi-Spring" .
Needless to say, getting all the outdoor chores done in between the sweltering heat and humidity and cold, wet and rainy days can be quite a challenge.
Here's my "to do" list of home maintenance chores that need to be done each year.  … (1 comments)