Home and Garden Show 2016

1THE WEIRS PUBLISHING CO. MAY 2016 SPRING HOME & GARDEN GUIDE

May 13th, 14th, & 15th • Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg, Maine

Published Spring 2016

2 THE WEIRS PUBLISHING CO. MAY 2016 SPRING HOME & GARDEN GUIDE

Hello and welcome!!We celebrate both a truly

strange winter and wel-come with open arms our warm weather ahead.

Rated as a Top 20 event in Maine by Yankee Maga-zine, you don’t want to miss all the sights, sounds and smells of spring at this year’s Home Garden Flower Show, May Fair.

In its 16th year, the Home Garden Flower Show, May Fair welcomes almost 250 vendors throughout seven different buildings and 5 acres of outdoor space. Energy efficiency is an im-portant part of the show.While new technology in energy-efficiency can be both intimidating and ex-citing, our exhibitors have the knowledge and time to talk with attendees, make appointments and do an evaluation on home-im-provement projects.

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tion ofa Craft Beer, Wine and Cheese Pavilion we just had to bring it back! Our sponsors, The Good Beer Store in Fryeburg, ME and Cabot Cheese, Cabot, VT.will focus on mi-cro-brews, meads, ciders, wines and cheeses. The Pa-vilion is like an après-like escape from the excitement of the show where you can sample craft brews, wines and meads while pairing them with your favorite cheeses.

Guests will be able to sample various types of homemade breads and focaccia made fresh right on site!

Two unique areas of the show that allow atten-dants to shop for great deals,include the Gar-den Marketplace and the Farmer’s Market. Scattered throughout the show are garden centers and farms selling perennials, annuals, herbs,veggie seedlings.

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New for 2016 we proudly introduce the “Artisans in Residence” demonstra-tions. Among the many artisans and specialty food purveyors, we will intro-duce high end artists shar-ing their craftsmanship and talent with show go-ers.

Artists specializing in pot-tery, rug hooking, black-smithing and more. Try yourhand at the potter’s wheel or watch an artist create a mosaic tile wall hanging.

Design Bungalow will demonstrate how easy it is to “Shabby Chic” while Dereck Glazer impresses you with his talent in black-smithing. These fine artists are a few of the talented vendors who are eager to present their craft and an-swer your questions.

by Karla FickerNorhern NH Home, Garden & Flower Show

Artists and crafters in the show offer a huge range of gifts and great ideas for family and friends. It is especially important that we support our local and regional businesses. And it’s fun to walk through the buildings and meet these great entrepreneurs.

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The downspout drain line under the sidewalk is leaking and causing erosion and possible foundation leakage.

DEAR TIM: My home is less than two months old and I already have a problem with my down-spout drainage. Where the sidewalk comes up to my front porch a black corru-gated plastic pipe extends through the concrete. The soil under the sidewalk has now eroded and each time it rains I can see wa-ter bubble up from under the sidewalk. How can this be fixed, and what can be done to prevent foundation damage? Is this poor construction or what do you think caused the problem? --Stacie N., Eagle Mountain, Utah

DEAR STACIE: Oh my goodness! From what I see in the great photo you sent, you’ve got a problem. Rest assured, it can be fixed, and the contractor should do it at no addi-tional expense to you.

Every time I see con-tractors or homeowners use that flexible corru-gated black plastic pipe for downspout drainage, I groan. In my opinion, it’s the least favorable pipe to use. Go back in time and look at old homes and you’ll see that contractors routinely used dense clay

pipe for downspout drain lines.

Yes, this was in the day before plastic was invent-ed, but the contractors knew that water should pass through substantial pipes and last generations, not weeks. The clay pipes had their own set of prob-lems. For example, roots could get into the joints and clog the pipes, and if the pipes were not in-stalled perfectly with solid fill under them, they’d crack and collapse.

I’m a fan of plastic down-spout drainage lines, but not the flimsy black cor-rugated plastic. For many years I used a stiff plastic pipe that was rated for sewer lines. It was called SDR-35. That designa-tion may have changed, but while the plastic was not as heavy as schedule

40 PVC, it was somewhat close.

What I liked about this SDR-35 is that the pipe came with self-sealing hubs that had built-in rubber gaskets. The end of one pipe would slide into the wider end of another one and the rubber gas-kets provided a leak-proof connection that was also impervious to tree roots.

Don’t confuse this SDR-35 drain pipe with a cheap flimsy white plastic pipe I sometimes see at home centers and big box stores. To get this higher-quality downspout pipe you prob-ably need to visit a plumb-ing supply house near you that sells products to plumbers.

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offers a unique common interest that can bring together a diverse com-munity while giving the gift of personal enjoy-ment as well as intellec-tual stimulation.

When you buy a piece from a local artisan this puts your money back into local economy. Its important to keep in mind that artisans are small local businesses and we often think of them as being reclusive. However in order to op-erate, they also employ helpers, such as web-

site designers, copy and print services and use a variety of local ser-vices which make them a part of are the largest employer nationally and within their own com-munities. Artisans take great pride in their work, so we hope you will take this opportunity to expe-rience handmade, one-of-a-kind and meaning-ful gifts and support the local communities that are represented here at May Fair.

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Dish: A Day at the Beach Bolle - Pan roasted lobster in an oven baked bread bowl tossed with butter and fresh herbs.

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and even other fittings that allow you to connect two pipes into one. These fittings can be glued to the pipe using standard PVC cement and primer. The finished fit is tight and will not leak or allow roots to enter the pipe.

In your case, the black plastic pipe may have col-lapsed and cracked very close to the foundation of your home because it was laid over the top of uncompacted fill material that was dumped in next to your home’s foundation. As the ground settled, it put stress on the pipe, causing it to either col-lapse or crack. It’s very important for downspout drain lines to be placed in compacted fill or to be placed in undisturbed soil that’s beyond the hole that was cut into the ground for the foundation.

Here are a few tips to help make sure your downspout drain lines are installed properly and will last generations. The lines need to be installed very much like the plumbing drain lines in your home that might be under a basement slab. The pipes need to slope so they have about 1/4-inch of fall per horizontal foot of run.

If the pipes need to change direction under the soil, never use more than a 45-degree angle. If you need to create a

90-degree bend, then com-bine two 45-degree bends spaced perhaps a foot apart. Sharp 90-degree bends can be used where a pipe ends near the founda-tion wall to turn up to cap-ture a metal downspout. The reason you want to use 45-degree bends in all the other locations is they make it easy for a metal drain-cleaning snake to pass through the pipe.

The downspout drain lines need to extend to the lowest part of your lot or at least 50 feet away from your home. You don’t want roof water to exit a down-spout and just fall onto a splash block. This amount of water pooling next to your foundation can cause all sorts of foundation issues and leaks into a basement or crawlspace.

Some cities or towns re-quire you to connect the downspout drain lines to storm sewers. This is a great idea if they’re avail-able. If not and you live on hilly terrain, you can pre-vent erosion from the wa-ter exiting the pipe by al-lowing it to flow over larger stones that are about the size of pineapples.

You may be tempted to harvest the rain water coming from the pipes for use in your garden or for some other purpose. Be aware that some states have laws that don’t allow you to do this. Check to make sure what you can

or can’t do with the water that falls from the sky.

Finally, do yourself and the future owners of your home a favor. When the trenches are dug for your downspout drain lines, take numerous photos of the open trenches with the pipes installed so everyone knows where the pipes are once buried. Print the photos or put them on a flash drive and put these in a labeled waterproof plastic bag stapled to the board next to your circuit breaker panel. You’ll never

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most of the talking is be-tween the charter boats, although the charters use the cell phones a lot, and talk is serious. When the weekend ar-rives, the radio if full of nonsense. People yell-ing at each other, tell-ing jokes and just plain chit-chat. It is annoying, to say the least. These folks are also “Sharing” information with oth-ers, for what it is worth. “What did you catch that salmon on”? “We were using flies & flashers.” “What color”? “Green on Green”.

Wel l that te l ls you NOTHING. Head for the tackle shop & look for a green flasher and a green fly………Good luck. You will find at least 30 – 40 combinations of green flashers. With respect to the green fly…………….there will be another 30 – 40 different green flies, all just a little bit differ-ent than the other.

The other interesting thing is that it seems that you never hear of any two people catching fish with the same baits. Too many choices.

Well, the “Hot” flasher this year was the E-Chip “Goldfinger”. One side gold and the other, ½ & ½ bright green & bright gold. Now that you have the flasher, what to put behind it? We ran the original “Hammer” fly & did quite well.

For some reason or an-other, we had our best luck during the first hour of each day. After that, it was a long time between fish. We were joking about going out for an hour and then heading for camp to take a nap.

I had stated earlier that we had invested in one of the new “Fish Hawk” speed & temperature units and that was a valuable asset this year out there. What wind we did have certainly blew the water around & changed the fishing tremendously. The first few days we were there we had to go way out to water that was 300 feet deep to get any good temperature. All the water in closer was too

Dave with 1st King Salmon of our 2013 trip and a personal best at 28 lbs.

I think our total time on the water (including travel time) that morn-ing was just over an hour and a half. We no sooner set lines than we had a fish on. Got that one in & settled back down and the second rod went off. We were back to the dock with our 2 fish, well be-fore 10:00 AM and they weighed in at 24 & 25 lbs. What a GREAT way to end the trip.

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As a rule, we travel on Saturdays, going out & coming home, but try to get in a couple of hours on the Friday morning prior to departure. After that short jaunt, we pull the boats out & pack them up for traveling home the next day.

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