- Get Your Home Ready for Summer! Guest Author: Michael Young, Berkshire Hathaway Realty I don’t know about you, but Spring is the time of year when I just want to be outside as much as possible after a long winter. Most of us will do our share of Spring cleaning, but is your house going to be “Summer Ready?” Use this […]
- Beaver County Christmas Tree Farms This article is presented by Beaver County Auto and Rochester Manor+Villa What better way to start off the holidays than to hop on a wagon with the kiddos and choose your own live Christmas tree? Beaver County has several family-owned Christmas tree farms that have been around for decades to help locals make memories and choose the […]
- 10 Tips for a healthy lawn My name is Daniel and I am passionate about all things related lawn care. I blog about lawn care as well as offering useful information about the lawn care products. You can visit my site here… weedeaterjudge.com Topic: 10 Mowing Tips for a Healthy Lawn Mowing may not be your favorite chore of all, but it’s something […]
- Sustainable Organic Gardening…in Aliquippa Author’s Note: I am in no way a gardener, but fully support sustainable agriculture. My wife has the green thumb in our family and is often referred to as the Queen of Kale! To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow” – Audrey Hepburn In a world wallpapered with viral videos and never ending hashtags, we often […]
- Allie’s Weekly Meal Plans: Feeding a Family of Four on $50 per Week Make sure you check out Allie’s first and second editions of weekly meal plans! Now that summer is upon us, I want to spend literally every day grilling something delicious for dinner. If I had my way, it would never rain, and everything would be char-broiled to perfection. Unfortunately, we live in Western Pennsylvania, where […]
- How to Get the Most Out of Our Local Farmers’ Markets Have you ever gone into the grocery store, picked up a carton of berries, or a zucchini, and just thought to yourself… “ughhhh?” Don’t worry, I’m not knocking our local shops, because I frequent all of them regularly and get my produce there during the winter months. But I can’t WAIT for the springtime when […]
- Looking to Build a Custom Home? Best Builders Knows Best! Once upon a time, we had enough space in our house. One kid, two bedrooms, and all was right with the world. Since that point though, the family has continued to grow and we have continued to be more and more pressed for space. We are pretty much at maximum capacity around here and the […]
- Allie’s Weekly Meal Plans: Feeding a Family of Four on $50 per Week This is the second installment of Allie’s Weeklly Meal Plan Series. In case you missed it, check out here first set of meals too! When planning my meals for this week, I’m still a little torn because of the springtime weather that can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be warm or cold. I […]
- Learning How to Sew with Modern Mackenzie Growing up, I remember a friend of mine’s mother was a Home Economics teacher. She used to make the most amazing Halloween costumes for my friend. As I stood next to her on Halloween night, pillow cases in tow for our candy booty, my plastic face mask made me feel… well, a little sad and […]
- The Low-Down on Cinco de Mayo: Olé! Time to bust out your sombreros, Beaver County! It’s Cinco de Mayo! Typically, the Mister and I like to go out, have a few cervezas and enjoy the day. Since I’m pregnant, this year we are nixing the cerveza and heading straight for the feast at home. Baby loves that hot sauce! But, YBC wants […]
- Drowning in Your Kids Stuff? Here’s How to Unload Some! One of the most fascinating things about kids is the amount of stuff that they require. How can something so small need so much stuff?! FASCINATING! Swings, bassinets, cribs, sheets, towels, clothes, hats, mitts… and that’s just when they don’t do much but lay around and keep you up at night! The next phase is […]
- Does It Really Work? Testing Out Pinterest Cleaning Tips Before I started my current gig as Beaverhausen Family Domestic Engineer, I worked full time. Between the job and the commute (not to mention any traveling), it left me right around 2.5 hrs per day of awake time at home to complete any household tasks – cooking, eating, cleaning up, showering, laundry, loving the cat, […]
- Gardening With Ana: Where to Buy Plants When You Ruin Your Seeds Much to my husband’s dismay, I have a back yard vegetable garden. We live in downtown Beaver, so the size of our yard is pretty small to begin with. While this project started innocently enough with removing some grass and plopping down a few tomato plants, since its inception five or six years ago, the […]
- Getting the Right Kitchen Supplies in Beaver County Before I started the glamorous lifestyle of being a stay-at-home mom, I was a cubical dweller. For five days each week, I stared at beige fabric walls and two computer screens, occasionally prairie doggin’ up to see what was going on. (Prairie Doggin? – It’s a cubical worker’s thing.) That is when Beaverhausen Kid #1 […]
