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When installing new carpet, start by taking accurate measurements of the room. Measure the length and width of the room. Multiply these measurements together to find the square footage.

Carpet is measured in square yards. One square yard is 9 square feet. To convert square feet to square yards, divide the square footage by 9. Example: 90 square feet/9 = 10 square yards

If the room isnt a perfect rectangle, measure the room's square footage in sections. Then, add them together to find the total square footage. This guide covers how to put carpet down in a room thats square or rectangular.

Once you have measured your room, order the carpet. Order 10 to 20 percent more carpet than you need to be sure you have more than enough to cover the floor. You'll also need to get tools and flooring supplies, like tack strips, adhesives and edging, for your carpet installation project.

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A New York State Senator representing portion of CNY and the North County is pulling no punches over Kirsten Gillibrand's plan to send undocumented migrants in New York City to upstate communities.

Reacting to a recent news article in the NY Post in which U.S. Senator Gillibrand said relocating migrants upstate would help upstate cities qualify for additional federal money, NY Senator Joe Griffo says fooey.

The Upstate Republican released a statement saying he believes the plan is another example of Gillibrand being more concerned about her own future than the communities she represents.

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There she goes again. After trying to steal a federal judgeship from Utica and the Mohawk Valley, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is again not paying attention to the needs and concerns of the upstate communities she supposedly represents in Congress," Griffo said.

"I recognize the role played by migrant workers who have come here in accordance with established immigration protocols and the effect that they have on the states agriculture industry. Additionally, upstate communities have demonstrated a willingness and interest in welcoming and integrating legal refugees and immigrants. However, Sen. Gillibrands proposal to ship immigrants who have crossed the border illegally to these communities is disingenuous. Lets call it was it really is: A political ploy by an individual who is more concerned about her political future than the futures of upstate communities," he said.

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Griffo continued, "Longstanding immigration issues that have challenged many administrations and Congresses must be addressed at the federal level. Sen. Gillibrand and her colleagues are in a position to create policies to remedy this problem. Its time for Sen. Gillibrand to do her job and resolve these issues as opposed to forcing already struggling communities to deal with another challenge.

The issue of undocumented migrants flooding into the U.S. has become a hot topic of late with Republican governors shipping bus loads of migrants to Democrat-run sanctuary cities.

In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has been said nearly two dozens emergency shelters have opened to address the influx of those fleeing South America. Adams has even floated the idea of housing the growing number of migrants on cruise ships, the Washington Post reports.

With ever growing options for jobs in Utica, Rome, Central New York, and the Mohawk Valley, what are the most popular jobs? With that, what is the pay?

We wanted to highlight the Top 25 jobs in our region:

Depending on your current employment goals, these may be jobs to avoid in the Utica and Rome area of New York State. They are in order from the highest paying of the group, to the absolute lowest.

What would you like to see move into the former Boil Shack location in New Hartford on Seneca Turnkpike?

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Decks are a great selling point since they give additional outdoor living space. When looking for eco-friendly renovation options that give you an excellent ROI, replacing your wood deck with composite wood is a smart choice. According to Seiffert Building Supplies, a new composite deck often increases property value by up to 70%. So, how is composite material different than wood? Gambrick explains that composite wood is a material that binds several other materials together, such as pieces of wood, sawdust, and other fibers for a strong, engineered result. It creates a decking material that's maintenance-free and long-lasting.

Another bonus is the low maintenance. No sanding, staining, painting, or sealing of the deck year after year. That in itself is a cost savings. On top of that, many composite materials used in decking are made from recycled materials, which makes them eco-friendly, per Advance, Inc. Time and cost savings, appealing to buyers, an increase in property value, and environmental friendliness all make composite wood decks well worth it.

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Dutch aerospace engineer Olaf de Swart wanted to work in renewable energy after graduating from the Delft University of Technology in 2009 with a specialty in flexible solar modules, but the Great Financial Crisis had other plans. After the Lehman Brothers crash, the only job he could find was as a project engineer at Damen Shipyards. Shipbuilding was one of the few industries not paralyzed by the financial collapse. Though his passion was elsewhere, he took the gig.

Even as he worked on ships, de Swart never stopped thinking about energy. At the time, offshore floating windmills and tidal energy structures were starting to crop up. The cost of solar energy was still high but starting to come down. I saw that solar energy had nothing holding it back to become the cheapest energy source on the planet, he says. Five years into his Damen job, de Swart asked a question that fused his scientific passion and everyday work: Why cant we put this on the sea?

De Swart received a small budget from Damen in 2017 to investigate his idea, but when he applied for it to be as part of Damens innovation programcode-named Morpheusin 2018, the shipbuilder passed on developing offshore solar panels in-house since the concept was outside its core business and could compete with its energy industry clients. Damens decision motivated de Swart and several Damen colleagues to launch their own offshore floating solar energy park business called SolarDuck.

Today, the startup is partnering with German energy firm RWE to build a pilot floating photovoltaic (FPV) plant that will open in the Belgian North Sea next year. The plant will be one of the first truly high-wave offshore plants and the first to use a unique triangular design that should help it weather heavy seasone of the great obstacles to offshore solar installations.

The 0.5 Megawatt peak (or MWp, a measure of the maximum potential power output) pilot project will mark a major step in proving that offshore solar farms can provide reliable and cheap energy for land-scarce countries in Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. (SolarDuck declined to reveal the projects cost; RWE will invest in the project, the German firm says.)

We focus on countries which dont have the space to build solar on a large scale, so they cannot profit from the low electricity prices that solar energy can bring, says de Swart. And in these countries, if you look at where most of the population is located, its in what we call the sunbelt region around the equator.

Fossil fuel-triggered climate change and the energy crisis caused by Russias invasion of Ukraine have underscored the need for more creative renewable energy generation. The question is whether offshore floating solar parks can move from the theoretical to the efficient and useful.

For legitimate reasons, renewable energy analysts have doubts.

Offshore floating PV is unlikely to take off mainly because it is a tougher environment with challenges related to salt water, waves, tidal level changes, and seasonal typhoons, says Victor Signes, a renewable energy analyst at Rystad Energy.

But the difficulty of finding apt sites for renewable energy in mountainous or thickly populated countries like Japan, and in isolated island and costal nations, like those in the Caribbean, makes the idea of offshore solar parks an attractive entrepreneurial endeavor.

If well be able to take that out to sea, that will open a whole new frontier, says Koen Burgers, a former Damen executive who left the shipbuilder to become the startups CEO.

Investors are betting that the Dutch-Norwegian SolarDuck can make offshore solar work. It raised a $4 million round earlier this year, and its investors include Damen, Link Venture Capital and the Norwegian accelerator Katapult Ocean. Burgers declined to disclose the companys valuation.

Floating solar parks began to pop up about 15 years ago and have grown steadily since, mainly on inland bodies of watereither lakes or reservoirswith hydroelectric dams that are already hooked up to the grid.

Floating solar has seen strong growth over the past three to five years [and] has the potential to become the third pillar of the photovoltaic industry, next to ground-mounted and rooftop solar, says Thomas Reindl, deputy CEO of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS). Just covering 10% of all man-made reservoirs in the world would lead to installation capacities in the range of around 20 terawatts, which is 20 times more than the global cumulative installed solar photovoltaic capacity today.

Floating solar panels offer three main advantages, says Signes from Rystad. First, the solar panels are more efficient because the water below keeps them cool. Second, it is easier to get permits for already artificialized areas, like spent quarries hydroelectric dams, in part because there are few NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) objections from local residents. And third, mixing floating solar plants with existing wind and hydroelectric plants achieves economies of scale in terms of infrastructure costs.

Globally, floating solars installed capacity is expected to hit 24 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, growing from 2.7 GW at the end of the first half of 2022, mainly led by Asia, according to Rystad. Its potential is far greater: the U.S. Department of Energys National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimates that adding floating solar power to existing hydropower reservoirs could supply almost half of current global electricity demand.

SolarDucks founders started working on the company from within Damen Shipyards, but de Swart and SolarDuck engineering head Ewoud Huiskamp left in 2019 and spun out the company in mid-2020. De Swarts supervisor Don Hoogendoorn, now SolarDucks CTO, and Burgers left Damen and joined full-time in 2021.

The founders designed triangular solar panel platforms with semi-submergible floats that when linked togethersix triangular platforms joined at their apex form a hexagonwould be more flexible and have more axes on which to rotate than the usual rectangular variety, and thus be better suited to heavy waves and ocean currents. Signes says the design offers higher stability. RWE, the German utility working with SolarDuck on the pilot, says the North Sea solar farm will float several meters above the water, following the waves like a carpet.

SolarDuck CEO Burgers says the floating platformsthe triangles are more than 30 meters a sideare being designed to withstand waves that reach 14 meters in height. By comparison, in 2020, the worlds first high-wave offshore solar project, from Oceans of Energy, was praised for riding out 5-meter waves. That project has since endured 10-meter waves and it designed to face up to 14-meter ones, the company says.

SolarDuck and RWEs North Sea pilot installationcomprised of six triangles joined into one hexagonis slated to open next April with a capacity of 0.5 MWp. For their next step, the two companies plan to connect a SolarDuck offshore 5 MWp floating solar plantmade of some 70 trianglesto a RWE wind farm that the utility is bidding to build 53 kilometers off the Dutch coast. Mixing the two energy sources is attractive for future installations because wind and solar are complementary, says Evan Rosenlieb, an NREL technical lead on floating solar work. It tends to be windier at night.

The 5 MWp floating plant would be larger than any high-wave offshore farms that currently exists, though Oceans of Energy plans to scale up to 15 MW in its next round of growth. The largest installed offshore floating solar project to date is a 181 MWp farm near Taiwan, but it is in a sheltered near-shore location.

Floating PV enables the expansion of renewable energies without the use of additional land and that is in our particular interest. Particularly in combination with an offshore windfarm, said an RWE spokesperson.

De Swart says SolarDuck has also received interest from groups in Bermuda, Malaysia, and Japan, and expects to sign two more contracts this year.

For SolarDucks Burgers, the doubts about the cost-effectiveness of offshore solar are understandablebut hes confident solar can overcome those doubts like wind has.

Wind was taken offshore 20 or 25 years ago and people thought it would be too expensive, he says. Now they are subsidy-free.

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A trio of skaters who connected during the pandemic are inviting fellow eight-wheelers to roll into the night with them this Saturday.

Golda Ferrer, Signy Thorsteinson and Jill Munro, collectively known as the Skate Sisters, are the brains behind IllumiSkate the Night, an outdoor, disco-inspired roller rink making its debut at this years Nuit Blanche, the annual free night of art exploration held as part of Culture Days.

For one night only, a car park in the East Exchange will be transformed into a 70s-esque roller rink, complete with disco lights and retro music.

This is a dream we are making come true, Ferrer says. Winnipeg doesnt have an outdoor roller rink and for one night we are doing just that.

Kicking off at 6 p.m., IllumiSkate promises a night full of thrills and maybe some spills as everyone is invited to join in, as long as they bring their skates.

For Ferrer and her skate sisters, the hobby is more than just a way to keep fit; its an art form. She also credits the activity for keeping her sane during the height of COVID-19.

In isolation we were keeping apart from our families, but when we were out skating, we would accidentally run into other skaters, and we could all do this thing together. We would socially distance, wearing masks, and just skate with each other. There was just something about it the freedom we felt in those isolated times, and we still got together to share our common love of skating. And this was the culture that emerged out of it.

Getting the event ready hasnt been easy a small budget, together with a tight turnaround time, has seen everyone pitching in to do their bit.

Ferrer credits the skating community shes part of, Peg City Rollers, for coming together to ensure everything rolls smoothly.

Its been all hands on deck putting the event together, Ferrer explains. We (the Skate Sisters) had the underlying assumption that our community would come in and make this happen.

I think the most notable thing is that, because of a location issue, weve only had nine weeks to plan the event. We also received a $2,000 grant from Nuit Blanche. A lot of our installation relies on our skate-community friends and family support. We were able to borrow and repurpose most things. There is so much artistic talent in the group. We had to get really creative.

We are here to give the Skate Sisters any help they need, says Genie Nizigiyimana, founder of the Peg City Rollers.

There are a lot of members in our group who are more than willing and currently helping them. Its all about community enthusiasm. We want the event to be successful.

Nizigiyimana, who started skating in October 2020, established Peg City Rollers in January of the following year to meet more like-minded people. The group now hosts more than 100 members, although not everyone turns up to all the skate meets.

I started a social media account, and the goal was to find other skaters in Winnipeg to skate with. In May 2021 we had our official skate meet with 10 people, and we have 141 members right now.

People come and go. We have open skate meets and sometimes there are 30 people, sometimes there are five people.

The skaters meet at Sargent Skate Park on Sundays in the warmer months and move to a community centre in winter. Summer events are free but winter events are charged a fee to cover the rent of the indoor location.

Last year it was $50 per person and we had just enough to cover the rent. When there was extra we saved that and this year in March we had a live DJ come in and perform when we skated, Nizigiyimana explains.

Roller skating has a long history in Winnipeg, with its roots in the city going back 140 years. The citys first roller rink, as reported in the Free Press, opened in 1883 at 12 Graham St., now known as Graham Avenue.

The history of skating in the city is something that interests Ferrer, and she has made sure it is a part of the IllumiSkate experience.

We convinced my favourite local building archivist, Christian Cassidy, to write a five-part blog about Winnipegs roller-skate history. Its a key part of our installation, Ferrer says.

Ferrer is expecting between 80 to 100 skaters to turn up at the 70s-inspired roller rink throughout the course of the evening.

Expect to time-travel back to the disco era with disco balls, sparkly drapes and warm lights for this installation, Ferrer says.

For non-skaters, there will also be a Zumba section where spectators can dance the night away.

The installation will have a disco photo booth with a red-carpet walk and a lit-up floor, along with three picture walls two of which attendees will have to spot somewhere in the East Exchange.

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My first indication that Qatar is a country unlike any other is the herd of metallic oryxes that greets me in the arrivals hall at Dohas Hamad International Airport. Designed by Dutch sculptor Tom Claassen, its one of a dozen world-class artworks scattered throughout the terminal. But it isnt until Im standing at the paws of a 23-foot-tall pineapple-yellow teddy bear with a glowing lamp for a head the eerily brilliant work of Swiss artist Urs Fischer that I really start to wonder: Is this an airport or an art museum? The answer is both.

Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, chairperson of Qatar Museums and sister of the ruling emir, is one of the most powerful art buyers in the world. Her taste influences everything in this oil-rich nation. The royal family set a record when it paid a whopping $6.8 million for Fischers 20-ton teddy, but thats chump change for a monarchy determined to transform its sliver of the Arabian Peninsula into a cultural polestar. Those strapping bronze oryxes? Theyre just an amuse-bouche for the aesthetic feast thats to come.

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Qatar has been on a spending spree ever since it landed its bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, with more than a million visitors expected to descend upon the capital city come November. The frenzied expansion includes luxe hotels, shiny stadiums, and a slew of new and revitalized museums. Cranes are a staple on the skyline which is so iconic now that it rivals Manhattan and Hong Kong. Even my Sri Lankan taxi driver, who has lived here on and off for six years, says he gets lost because the city changes so quickly.

Im in town for the ribbon cutting of the new 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, which is timed to the World Cup draw. Drafted by Catalan architect Joan Sibina, its one of the largest sports museums on the planet and the first Arab institution to join the Olympic Museums Network. Its sprawling galleries trace the global history of sport, from Roman charioteers to Jamaican bobsledders, and showcase every Olympic torch from the 1936 games onward. I spend an hour strolling through the Hall of Athletes, taking in the stories of both icons (Babe Ruth, Tom Brady) and trailblazers (Japanese Paralympic swimmer Mayumi Narita).

The National Museum of Qatar, the brainchild of Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel, is another recent addition that stops me dead in my tracks. Circling its exterior, Im captivated by the buildings curvaceous interlocking discs, said to be inspired by the crystallized petals of the desert rose. I find the collection inside even more striking especially the Pearl Carpet of Baroda, a 19th century rug embellished with more than 1.5 million pearls, diamonds, emeralds and sapphires. By the time I plunge into the rabbit hole that is Pipilotti Rists hallucinogenic Your Brain to Me, My Brain to You, the Swiss creatives first site-specific installation in the Middle East, Ive become officially entranced by these superlative museums.

But my checklist of must-sees doesnt end there. Word has it Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is so in love with his work at the Qatar National Library that he visits monthly. I see why as soon as I set foot in its soaring all-white interior. More than 400,000 books are shelved in a tiered lobby, while a maze of earthy Iranian marble displays collectible manuscripts. A tour typically takes three hours, but I have just one, most of which I spend scooping my jaw up off the floor.

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Im equally impressed with I.M. Peis Museum of Islamic Art, which rises like a cubist wedding cake out of the jade-hued Arabian Gulf. Slated to reopen shortly before the World Cup, its been undergoing a reimagining for the past 18 months. I sneak into the multistory lobby for a quick look and risk fainting like a Victorian duchess while taking in its glory.

In between museum hopping, I make the rounds to headlining shows at flagship galleries, including a haute couture Christian Dior retrospective at fashion incubator M7. I nosh on luscious halvah ice cream at contemporary Qatari eatery Saasna and get a behind-the-scenes tour of Culture Pass Club, the countrys first members-only arts club. Situated in a suite of 14 townhouses decorated by Diane von Furstenberg, India Mahdavi and other design luminaries, its the kind of place where VIP creatives go to hobnob and rest their heads.

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Most enjoyably, I wander the back alleys of Souq Waqif, a shopping bazaar built on the site of a century-old trading market. My curiosity leads me to a row of Oudh vendors, hand-blown perfume bottles cluttering their shelves, and to spice shops selling mountains of pistachios and dried figs. I shuffle past men puffing clouds of fragrant shisha and women in niqabs ladling out batter for Nutella crepes. In the chaos of it all, I find more art: a giant severed thumb painted gold. One of the best-known sculptures by late French Nouveau Ralisme pioneer Csar Baldaccini, it stands out in the bustling market like, well, a sore thumb.

This high/low mix seems strange at first, but incongruity is a theme here. Women cover themselves head-to-toe in black abayas, for instance, but their hands are adorned with rare jewels and designer handbags. Bentleys and Lamborghinis idle at stoplights, driven by men dressed in princely thobes and gutras, while dust-caked laborers toil in the blazing sun just beyond the windshield. I quickly come to realize that Dohas mind-boggling growth wouldnt be possible without the migrant workers who grind away in the shadows, hammering the rafters of half-erect stadiums and delivering mint lemonades to poolside terraces. Most of these laborers come from Southeast Asia, and more than 6,000 of them have died in the citys breakneck race to World Cup dominance a distressing fact that any visitor marveling at these vertigo-inducing skyscrapers must grapple with.

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In that way, Im grateful to escape the city. Paradoxically, the most memorable experience I have in Qatar happens in the middle-of-nowhere desert. After bouncing around in the back of a 4WD past gypsum plateaus and Duneesque scrubbiness, I happen upon the holy grail: four steel slats some 170 feet tall standing upright in the ecru-colored sand.

East-West/West-East is the work of minimalist American sculptor Richard Serra. He named it this because viewers are supposed to start on one end, walk a kilometer east, then whirl around and walk back. I just happen to have timed it perfectly, so Im the only one there as the sun sinks into the horizon, bleeding a tangerine puddle as it goes. Far removed from the glitz and glam of Doha, its just me and the art and we both feel grounded.

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We have a short, concise list of gallery shows and activities this weekend, a variety of events that will suit different tastes.

Whats your taste? Check the list and plan your menu.

Lamp composed of art glass pieces designed 1903-1904 by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), glass with copper-plated zinc caming. Gift of Louis Newman and Justin Ferate; collection of Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art.

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Holly Nordeck and Cami Golofre collaborate on "Thicket," a new installation at the Storeroom.

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Reassess Devon Dikeou's Mid-Career Smear and celebrate the equinox at the Dikeou Pop-Up.

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Eugene Stewart: Color Fields Emma Krantz: Reactive Self-Portraits Art Gym Denver, 1460 Leyden StreetThursday, September 22, through October 23Opening Reception: Thursday, September 22, 6 to 9 p.m.Taos-based artist Eugene Stewart shows monotypes in a variety of abstract expressionism of his own invention that reveals a more concrete direction of exploration. New Art Gym member Emma Krantz hangs a series of portraits from photographs of strangers whose images reveal inner deepness. Krantz manipulates those images to express her own thoughts, and pairs them with meditative, abstracted landscapes.

JayCee Beyale, Nihodootlizh (Blue World/2nd World) (details from an installation), acrylic on canvas.

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Ana Maria Boter, Pair Twist (detail).

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Rocky Mountain National Watermedia 2022 Center for the Arts Evergreen, 31880 Rocky Village Drive, EvergreenFriday, September 23, through October 29, 2022Opening Reception: Friday, September 23, 4 to 7 p.m.Think of this show as a meeting of the minds for watercolorists across the nation. In its 49th year, its recognized as a top honor for all involved, with $10,000 of prize money divvied out after the jurist, Texas-based watermedia painter Soon Y. Warren, introduces the top six works via Zoom at the live opening in Evergreen. Warren took on nearly 500 submissions, paring them down to 62 works by artists from 25 states for the exhibition. You know its got to be good.

Joseph Coniff, "Panel Situation 6," 2022, enamel and pigment print on panel in artist frame.

Joseph Coniff, Rule Gallery

Bug, Dj Vu Pirate Associate Members, Works on Paper Pirate: Contemporary Art, 7130 West 16th Avenue, Lakewood Friday, September 23, through October 2Opening Reception:Friday, September 23, 6 to 10p.m.The longtime Pirate known as Bug is back with another multimedia installation, this time bearing the theme of Dj Vu. Were not certain what you will see at the gallery, but Bug usually hits a note parallel to the times were living through at the moment. Pirates associate members have gathered together for a group show in their gallery space this time.

Ben Shores shares his personal Colorado vibe at Spectra.

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Published 8:30 am Saturday, August 13, 2022

I remember as a kid that summers seemed long and definitely had a different vibea different tempo. There were hours of splashing around in the lake or the creek, listening to the great tunes of the 60s, riding bikes, and impromptu picnics in the yard. The picnics were usually a part of working in the garden and Mom making sandwiches and usually Kool-Aid in jelly glasses as we took a break from hoeing in the garden, digging potatoes, or pulling corn and picking tomatoes while my dad was at work. We canned a lot of vegetables and I had the job of washing the canning jars. We didnt have a dishwasher and Mom was very particular about sterile jars so in addition to my small hands and lots of soap, there was boiling water poured into the jars. What a process! I swore that when I grew up, I would not have any part of a garden or canning vegetables. Well, that didnt work out like I thought.

When we moved to our new home on the corner of Woodson Ridge and Bay Springs Road, one of the first things that happened was a garden. And I was once again canning vegetables, but this time I had a dishwasher to get the jars ready. Our sons Dennis and Jeff were young, but they were a part of the garden and work that got done on our place. Tom and I both worked full-time so we were a busy family, especially since Tom worked a second job on the weekends for many years.

One summer, it was time for some maintenance and updating the house. Im certain there was painting and one of the last things was having new carpet installed throughout our four-bedroom home. By this time, Dennis was old enough to cut grass and we had a big yard, about two acres to mow and trim. Jeff was into riding bikes but not quite old enough for the mower.

When we first moved to Woodson Ridge, Bay Springs Road was a gravel road but well-travelled. Lots of farm equipment and trucks moved on that road and that was the reason that Jeff was forbidden to ride his bike on the road which paralleled our property. It was soon paved which meant that vehicles could travel faster, yet another concern.

So, on the day of the new carpet installation, Dennis was out cutting grass and Jeff was riding his bike. Tom and I were inside doing a bunch of different things around the house as the workers were laying the new carpet. Unbeknownst to us, Jeff had decided to take his bike for a spin down Bay Springs Road. On the return trip to the house, he spun out and planted in the asphalt. Dennis was on the mower and couldnt hear his cries for help at first, and it wasnt until he turned the mower did he see his little brother all bloody. He jumped off the mower, ran to Jeff, and scooped him up in his arms and headed for the house.

When I heard the commotionDennis was doing a lot of yelling and Jeff was doing a lot of crying I immediately saw the blood and our two distraught sons coming into the house. And you can guess how alarmed I was. Or not as you might guess. You see, my alarm was that Jeff was going to bleed all over the newly-installed carpet, so I quickly screamed, Carry him to the bathtub! Dont get blood on the carpet! Id like to think that my initial response was mothers intuition that the scrapes and cuts were not serious. But to this day, I must be honest that I might have been a little too concerned about the new carpeting. At any rate, after wrapping Jeff in a large towel, we were out the door to the Emergency Room where Dr. Bo Murry did a few fancy stitches to our boys brow and assured us that nothing was broken, only scratched and skinned. So, summer can sometimes provide some unexpected occurrences. And I had to come to terms that I was not going to win Mother of the Year. Just be careful out there!

Bonnie Brown writes a weekly column for The Oxford Eagle. Contact her at bbrown@olemiss.edu.

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