Teddy the goat and all his friends at Philadelphia's Awbury Arboretum love the crunch of a Christmas tree. "There's not a lot of green in the winter, so when they see green, they get hungry and they get very excited," said Kelly Corrigan, director of wellness at the Philly Goat Pr...
People in the sauna beat themselves with branches from a birch tree. They do this to make themselves feel even hotter. Then they wash with soap and water. After washing, they cool off in cold water. The sauna is often built near a lake, and people go from the hot sauna into the cool...
The same thought strikes me every year, usually in the aftermath of New Year’s Eve. I will be wrestling a desiccated fir tree out of the front room, its sagging branches leaving behind me a prickly trail of needles. Why on earth did bringing an evergreen inside become a key element of...
I want to etch the window over my kitchen sink with a design of leaves and branches – to help obscure the view of the house next door. I contacted Armour Etch and asked if contact paper would work with Armour Etch for this project and they said they didn’t know??? but as I read...