The summertime is a great excuse to start fresh and enhance your home with that much needed makeover. However, many summer home renovations can take weeks and sometimes months to complete. What you need are some quick summer DIY projects that won’t cost an entire month’s salary. According to Fortune Builders, one of the surest summer home renovations to […]
Summertime was made for beaches, BBQs and bare feet. For homeowners, it represents the perfect time to tackle those summer home improvement projects while weather conditions are just right. With wind, snow, rain and ice out of the picture, which can take their toll on respective properties, the summer months are generally the ideal time to assess, […]
A pet donkey that escaped his owners five years ago in California has been found “living his best life” with a herd of wild elk. As the BBC and CBS News report, Terrie and Dave Drewry, of Auburn, are convinced the animal, filmed by a hiker earlier in June, is their pet “Diesel”. The couple […]
An 8-year-old Pekingese named Wild Thang took home the crown for the 2024 World’s Ugliest Dog contest. As NPR reports, this is the first victory for Wild Thang, a 5-time competitor in the annual event held at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in the northern California city of Petaluma. The Pekingese, whose owner Ann Lewis received $5,000 in prize money, […]
McDonald’s is giving its fans a few more ways to save on a meal out this summer. As Food & Wine reports, last week the fast food giant announced that in addition to its much-hyped $5 Meal Deal and its Free Fries Friday, it’s also offering local exclusive discounts on the app too. “We heard our fans […]
Gentle reader, Nicola Coughlan isn’t just the diamond of the season in the fictional world of “Bridgerton.” The Irish actor is also the star of Skims’ newest campaign — another example of Kim Kardashian’s brand successfully casting a celebrity at the height of pop-culture relevance. As Fashionista reports, Coughlan, who is riding the crest of the super successful second half launch […]
Hiking and camping fanatics know all too well the risks of a tick bite. Ticks are tiny but carry mighty illnesses, including Lyme disease. They thrive in heavily wooded areas across the U.S. and although there’s greater risk in the northeast, the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic regions, cases of tick-borne diseases are reported in every […]
At its introduction event, Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay expressed a desire not to alienate longtime Windows aficionados, and that’s a good thing (though almost impossible, given the way many people react to change). Despite that goal of keeping it familiar, there’s plenty of innovation in Windows 11. So, what’s new in 11, and […]
A catastrophic earthquake and tsunami are inevitable for the coast of the Pacific Northwest, scientists say. Planning for that means imagining a disaster unlike anything that’s ever hit the modern United States. “Thirty or forty years ago, we didn’t even know that big earthquakes were possible in the Pacific Northwest,” said Diego Melgar, a seismologist […]
Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree is finally here. The huge game, from Dark Souls developer FromSoftware, is set in a world created in part by Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin. As The Verge reports, the game largely lives up to the massive hype, but it didn’t have a perfect launch. Bandai Namco issued a PSA on the day […]