Condo is added to showhouse tour
The new venue, a condo model at Vinoy Place, has fabulous water views.

Less stress is a beautiful thing
Why decorate your house with demanding surfaces? The author of Lyn Peterson's Real Life Decorating talks about easier options.

Make documents and notices easy to read
Question: Recently our association reprinted the condominium documents. To save space, they used small print, which many of our older members find hard to read. They also did not contain the number of the official county record book and page where the documents are recorded. One of our members says this means the documents are not legal. Your response?

A peck of peppers
One display bed at a USF festival will be hot, hot, hot, thanks to a couple of guys and their "hobby grown wild."

Live bromeliads are yours for the digging
April may be the cruelest month for a poet, but for gardeners it is a time of glee. We're all eagerly trimming away winter's ravages on foliage, planning new spots of color in the garden and repotting like mad.

A noted genealogist's many lives
Hank Z. Jones has lived two lives, maybe more. He appeared in films of the 1960s and 1970s, including Disney's The Cat From Outer Space, and sitcoms, including Petticoat Junction. As a singer, he co-hosted The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, but in between Jones found his true calling; he became a noted genealogist.

Tour calendar
The spring calendar is full of show houses, neighborhood tours and other events. Here are details:

Dangers with free-roaming cats
A concerned reader wrote to plead the case for "millions of birds lost to free-roaming tame and wild (feral) cats." She urges us to educate the public about the dangers to cats allowed to run loose outdoors. She forwarded an informative pamphlet concerning this problem.

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