by oncapemagazine | Sep 21, 2023 | August 2011, Uncategorized
By CHRISTINE LYNCH Many songs have been written about autumn leaves, yet it’s a different tune when you’re facing a yard full of brown leaves. The upbeat approach is to tackle the job with a large rake and make some stacks for the family to plow through. Still, after...
by oncapemagazine | Sep 21, 2023 | August 2011, Uncategorized
By ALISON COMEY Strapped for cash, we’re rethinking our “toss it out” mentality about items – big and small If you grew up with parents who survived the Great Depression of the 1930s, as I did, hand-me-downs were as much a part of your childhood as the family...
by oncapemagazine | Sep 21, 2023 | August 2011
By ELIZABETH EIDLITZ We live in a four-seasonenvironment. While Nature alters the green landscape with fall colors, and black-capped chickadees replace warblers at bird feeders, we put away the beach umbrellas, bathing suits and sun block. Children’s shoulders,...
by oncapemagazine | Sep 21, 2023 | August 2011
By LAURA GROSS-HIGGINS When I was growing up my idea of what to have for dinner was like many people’s, shaped by what was prepared for me. In fact, it was more than just an idea because once my mother went back to work, my sisters and I were involved in helping to...
by oncapemagazine | Sep 21, 2023 | August 2011, Uncategorized
By MARY STANLEY As the summer season wanes and the days grow a bit shorter, we may be tempted to close the shades and curtains and to put aside thoughts of yard work, such as mowing and fertilizing the lawn, and weeding flower gardens. But the autumn season actually...
