If you don’t know what they are, the first time you hear the sound of hammering water pipes is enough to scare you silly. It’s loud and unsettling — a little as if a loud, angry animal is trapped under your kitchen sink. Fortunately, there’s a way to fix it. Just ask home improvement expert Danny Lipford. Categories: Morning –…
We’re getting better and better at getting our entire homes automated – but this morning there’s a new trick you can do when you’re out and about and need to send word back to the house. It’s changing the way we do messaging to make our lives a little easier. Check it out in this week’s Tech Tip with Francie…
With his thick white coat, enormous physical presence, and melting brown eyes, Winston the Great Pyrenees is one of the most strikingly beautiful and charismatic rescue dogs in the Red River Valley region. But even this success story has had his struggles finding his way to a forever home. He found it four years ago, with Diamond in the Ruff’s…
There’s nothing like a good night’s rest to get your day started off right. But if it’s been awhile since you had a chance to verify that for yourself, there’s help. Here’s an app to get you more rested and ready for your morning than ever before. Check it out with Francie Black in today’s App of the Week. …
If you’re as nuts about the environment as we are, it’s a story you’re definitely going to want to unpack. Packing peanuts are a surprisingly sustainable choice when it comes to your packing and shipping needs. Give a care package to Mother Earth and let Danny Lipford show you why packing peanuts are the way to go in this week’s…
When it comes to tackling outdoor tasks around the home, we’ve got a long, long time to go until the weather’s good enough to tackle them. So you have some time to strategize. For example, there’s time to develop a strategy about how to make sure your plastic items outside withstand the next winter storm. Danny Lipford shows you the…
Cold snaps like the one we just suffered through don’t always mean misery. In fact, there was one in Sweden years ago that lead to the development of a particularly beautiful and whimsical art form – the Dala horse. The little equine carvings are carved out of wood and then painted with bright colors and decorative details. Historically, they hail…
Finding your way to where you’re going is really important on a freezing cold day like this. After all, you want to keep your gas for emergencies, not waste it driving around lost. Now, there’s an app that can pinpoint any location -no matter how much your GPS struggles. Francie Black shows you how to roll with it in today’s…
When it comes to grocery shopping, you’ve probably noticed there are way more organic options than there used to be. But is organic actually better for you, or the planet? Danny Lipford digs into the details around eating organic in this week’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features
They say a coat of paint can fix practically any cosmetic problem around your house. But painting over ceramic tile? How durable can that really be? Turns out there’s a way to make that work too. Home improvement expert Danny Lipford lets us in on a technique that can save you big bucks and a big remodeling headache to give…
