The stunning modern farmhouse at 205 Ridgeview Road in West Sherman seems to check all the boxes. The newly constructs 3,984 square-foot masterpiece includes five bedrooms and five baths. The impressive design features begin with beautiful front cedar columns wrapped in stone. They flank a large oversized covered front porch overlooking the surrounding acre of property that this stately home commands.
Dear Neil: Compost that we bought and spread on our garden from a local source several years ago seemed to promote all sorts of weeds. Can we use herbicide on the garden now to get rid of the weeds before we take another load of compost for this year and rototill it in prior to spring planting?
I almost let a Shackleford presentation slip by last Thursday. Signing in, there was Qing Lana Luo presenting “Trends in Sustainable Park Development.” The licensed Landscape Architect and OSU Extension Specialist teaches design classes and has herself designed urban parks, plazas, and streetscapes.
Dear Abby: My husband passed away two years ago. I hope you can give me some advice on how to deal with my 53-year-old daughter who never left home. We generally get along well. She does freelance art, but doesn’t earn much. She contributes only $30 a month. Also, she has a driving phobia, so she doesn’t drive. She expects me to drive her to various places.
Dear Dr. Roach: How do pharmaceutical companies arrive at the names of their drugs? -- M.G.
Dear Abby: I am a widowed woman who met a gentleman online two years ago. We met in person and get along really great. Everything seems perfect, but my girlfriends keep telling me they see his profile on numerous dating sites. When I asked him about it, he said he had closed the accounts. Well, close friends say they are concerned because he is on a lot of those sites even now.
The vipers and the victors A lesson I have learned as of late is something that Maya Angelou said: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” For most of my life, I have given people the benefit of the doubt, wanting to believe the best in others. Everyone has off days, experiences, and reactions (myself included), so I make it a practice to see people for whom they consistently strive to be rather than focus on their shortcomings.
Anniversaries can tell us interesting things. A couple celebrates their 3 or 5-year mark of being together. It’s easy enough to tell by their giddy togetherness that they’re still fairly new at this. By the time some reach their 35th or 45th anniversary, it may be possible to see that they have faced some of life’s weightier challenges: buying a home, raising children, seeing one another through health crises. There may be questions about whether they will both be around to celebrate a 50th oreven60thanniversary. What shows in the lines of their faces are the hard-earned joys they’ve known, as well as the sorrows they’ve seen each through. It tells you something of the character of who they are, as well as something of where they are headed. Endurance points us toward the hope that is love’s blossom.
Dear Dr. Roach: My healthy 91-year-old mother recently discovered that she has a diagnosis of trigger finger.
Dear Abby: I have been a widow for six months. My late husband was a physically and verbally abusive alcoholic.