Grounds for Improvement helps homeowners solve those landscaping problems and make over their outdoor space in style. Jackie Taylor and Dean Hill, hosts of DIY Network’s Grounds for Improvement, teach techniques ranging from basic landscaping to intricate hardscaping. They demonstrate how to lay sod, plant shrubs, trim trees, install water features, construct arbors, erect fences, create pathways, and much more. All this knowledge is put to use on some of the most practical, beautiful, and luxurious projects ever--all presented with vivid illustrations and detailed instructions. Any home can get an uplift from the tiled patio and retaining wall, pergola, courtyard with stone planters, waterfall, or outdoor kitchen. And who wouldn’t love having their own putting green and hot tub right in their own backyard? Throughout the book, dozens of photos capture the amazing difference between "before” and "after”--a difference that anyone can make when they do it themselves.
Photographer Dean Hill takes you on a journey through the four seasons of Southeastern Appalachia. The photographs are unique perspectives of Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina made extraordinary by Dean's use of natural lighting, timing, and the forces of our changing seasons.
Black Silver Blues: Hymnal of the Spirit Hum of the Soul is an autobiography of an African American man’s life experiences in the southern states of America, the state of Georgia in the city of Atlanta. Starting as a young child and moving through to adulthood, the struggle in the lives of African American people in the United States is revealed. About the Author Curtis Dean Hill is first and foremost a Christian who loves the Holy Spirit of the Lord. He is a blues artist and enjoys playing the harmonica and the acoustic guitar for weddings, live entertainment, family reunions, birthday parties, and social events. Hill enjoys soft music including gospel, R&B, soul, blues, classical, and jazz. He is a self-educated man of IBEW, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and OIC, Opportunity Industrialization Center of Atlanta, GA.
Forced to move with his widowed mother to Wyoming to live with his uncle and cousin, Ken struggles to adjust to his new hybrid family while pursuing his dream of becoming a star football quarterback.
A how-to guide to defensive gardening "A necessary resource for professionals, universities, botanical gardens, horticultural clubs, and anyone interested in saving their landscape from the increasing danger of threats from fire, wind, and flood."--Robert Haehle, South Florida Sun-Sentinel "Covers many aspects of preparing your property for extreme weather events: an important part of sustainable landscaping."--Ginny Stibolt, author of Sustainable Gardening for Florida Global weather events are unpredictable. Hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, fire, snow, ice, freezing temperatures, and floods wreak millions of dollars in damage to residential landscapes each year. Weatherproofing Your Landscape provides the practical information you need to strengthen precious and valuable trees and shrubs, remove those that can't be saved, and promptly restore what has been damaged. For example, your best bet where limited space or thin soil presents a potential tipping problem is to plant small-stature species that develop balanced top-growth-to-root system ratios as they mature. Even where soil depth isn't a problem, top-heavy specimens are particularly vulnerable to tipping when the ground becomes saturated with rainfall. Selecting proper species for such landscapes as well as improving drainage can help prevent losses from waterlogged soil. Every part of the country is vulnerable to any combination of volatile weather events. Weatherproofing Your Landscape supplies the answers on how to prepare, manage, and recover your valuable landscape, including tips on what you can accomplish during a storm to minimize damage. Journalist Sandra Dark's work has appeared in a wide range of publications including Gardening How-To, Organic Gardening, The Family Food Garden, and Mother Earth News. She is a member of the Garden Writers Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Dean Hill, ASLA, was the cohost and landscape designer of the DIY Network's Grounds for Improvement television program and is the author of Grounds for Improvement: 25 Great Landscaping & Gardening Projects.
Provides the knowledge and tools needed for the future of survey research The survey research discipline faces unprecedented challenges, such as falling response rates, inadequate sampling frames, and antiquated approaches and tools. Addressing this changing landscape, Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research introduces readers to a multitude of new techniques in data collection in one of the fastest developing areas of survey research. The book is organized around the central idea of a "sociality hierarchy" in social media interactions, comprised of three levels: broadcast, conversational, and community based. Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research offers balanced coverage of the theory and practice of traditional survey research, while providing a conceptual framework for the opportunities social media platforms allow. Demonstrating varying perspectives and approaches to working with social media, the book features: New ways to approach data collection using platforms such as Facebook and Twitter Alternate methods for reaching out to interview subjects Design features that encourage participation with engaging, interactive surveys Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research is an important resource for survey researchers, market researchers, and practitioners who collect and analyze data in order to identify trends and draw reliable conclusions in the areas of business, sociology, psychology, and population studies. The book is also a useful text for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses on survey methodology and market research.
Songs from the Heart: A Devotional Journey through the Psalms presents an exploration of the Psalms designed to stretch over the course of a year. Each daily offering provides a clear and complete analysis of the passage referenced and a helpful cue for a prayer of response. Poetry has always been a tool used to express the deepest pains, the toughest struggles, the most desperate prayers, and the highest hopes of men and women, and the ancient book of Psalms contains some of the most profound and beautiful poems in existence. In today’s fast-moving world, it is truly surprising how often the problems and issues we encounter seem to mirror those faced by the writers of these verses from centuries ago. As you read through the Psalms and this companion guide, you will be comforted amid the painful experiences of your life and freshly encouraged in your faith through inspiring moments of contemplation, grace, and celebration. Songs from the Heart: A Devotional Journey through the Psalms shares a song of inspiration for every day of the year.
This story is about those Eastern Kentucky hills in which I grew up; a story of the love and admiration for those who influenced me the most. This book is a compilation of those events in my life that I either lived or was passed on to me by those around me. They are told from the perspective of having experienced them, or from the point of view of those who were telling them. They tell of the lives of those closest to me, or those who genetically passed on to me all those things that make up my character and my being. I realize that it is a very much over used cliché, and has been written time and again, but this account of life in the hills truly was “The best of times and the worst of times.” These anecdotes cover the life of one hill boy who grew up in the head of a holler, who lived life and enjoyed the ride. In this story, I attempt to outline the life of this particular blessed young boy, who grew from a small kid who worked for his Grandfather for twenty-five cents an hour, attended a one room school second through seventh grade, and on to a small rural high school; worked his way through college by everything from sawmills, to construction, to pumping gas, and many things in between; finally finishing his career as an educator. (Teacher, principal, and assistant to the superintendent) Extensive use of humor is used in relating the story and gives the reader a glimpse of the boy in many of us. Even when the subject is sometimes sad or serious, the author attempts to relate the point in a humorous manner. The story is real, the people are real, the humor is real, and the sadness is real. It is the hope of the author that the reader will get a bird’s eye view of the life of a hill boy growing up in the 50’s & 60’s. I believe this book will invoke memories and nostalgia of those earlier years for the reader, whether you are from the city or a true Appalachian child.. REVIEWS: Alice Welty: I thoroughly enjoyed it. I could not put it down. Very funny. I could relate to a lot of the stories. Joanne Lawson: I really enjoyed it. A lot of people I know could definitely relate to it. I laughed a lot. Nonda Alexander: I don’t know how you are alive. You did so many crazy things. I thought it was very good and awfully funny. Barry Welty: I wish I could have read this while I was in your class. I believe I could have used it to get a better grade in physics. Funny. Bro. Tom Starks: Very funny but I had one problem. Having known you for only a little over a year, all I could do was to picture your big adult head on that little boy’s body, hot rodding around in all those stories. Eldon Bowling: Phone message: Great book! I would read awhile and cry awhile, then cry awhile and read awhile. Russell Young: I would read awhile and cry awhile. It was so close to the way I grew up. I loved it. Jim Cantrel: It was a great read. I have passed it around to my friends and they really like it. It has been passed around so much, I hope to get it back sometime.
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