Family fun for the weekend
Museum fun
• On Thursday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road, Londonderry) will be hosting Lighter Than Air, an educational program and lecture about the people who pioneered flight through hot air balloons. The event will Continue reading “Kiddie Pool 23/01/26”
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The spring flower shows are always a contrast to the cold, icy days of winter. Bright flowers, garden paraphernalia and numerous workshops make these events fun, for both beginner and expert. Here are this year’s offerings.
The first show of the season is a specialty show: Continue reading “Spring flower shows are back!”
The annual Winter Festival in Concord is back
Intown Concord is bringing some post-holiday fun to the city with the annual Winter Festival, with ice sculpting competitions, unique food options and more starting on Friday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m.
Haylie Stoddard, a representative from Intown Concord, one of the Continue reading “Frozen fun”
Family fun for the weekend
Stories plus…
• Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St. in Manchester; bookerymht.com) will hold a storytime and craft on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 11:30 a.m. centered around the book Kunoichi Bunny, by author Sara Cassidy and illustrator Brayden Sato. Described as a “wordless picture book Continue reading “Kiddie Pool 23/01/19”
Look for old favorites and new varieties
We gardeners love our home-grown vegetables. As John Denver sang long ago, “Only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” And why do they taste so good? We can grow tomatoes that don’t have to conform to Continue reading “Growing food for flavor”
Family fun for the weekend
WinterFest fun
LaBelle Winery (14 Route 111 in Derry) will celebrate WinterFest on Saturday, Jan. 14, and Sunday, Jan. 15, featuring tastings and other events. Especially for the kids: on Sunday, LaBelle will hold a WinterFest Family Bash from 3 to 5:30 p.m. The celebration Continue reading “Kiddie Pool 23/01/12”
Use winter to make your plans
It’s gray and chilly outside, but I have a fire in the new woodstove that warms the house and pleases me as I look through its glass window. I’ve been in the same house since 1970, so I’ve had plenty of time to plan Continue reading “Projects in the garden”
Family fun for the weekend
On ice!
“Find Your Hero” is the theme of this weekend’s Disney On Ice show at the SNHU Arena (555 Elm St. in Manchester; snhuarena.com, 644-500). Princesses, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Olaf the snowman and other Disney characters will take to the ice on Thursday, Continue reading “Kiddie Pool 23/01/05”
Whatever happens, keep planting and learning
At the end of the year I always like to take a little time to reflect on what worked well in the garden — and what didn’t. This year I also called some gardening friends — some experienced, some less so — to ask Continue reading “The year’s lessons from the garden”
Put on a hoodie and shake off the snow
We recently got hit by a big winter storm that dropped at least 15 inches of heavy, wet snow. It clung to branches, breaking some and bending others to near their breaking points. If you suffer the same sometime this winter, Continue reading “What to do after a big storm”
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