terrified by spiders

My son is opposed to chemical spraying, but aren't there some steps I can take to help the trees produce better fruit? For example, does it help to apply something around the trunk to prevent insects from crawling onto the branches? Other suggestions?

My son is opposed to chemical spraying, but aren't there some steps I can take to help the trees produce better fruit? For example, does it help to apply something around the trunk to prevent insects from crawling onto the branches? Other suggestions?

If a home-schooled individual wants to attend college, how do the colleges determine that the student has acquired a satisfactory level of education?

I have promised my grand-daughter that if she graduates from high school and gets her diploma in May of this year, that I will give her $500. To prove to her that I am serious and really will keep my part of the offer, I am thinking of getting a cashier's check made out to her for $500, and showing her a copy of the check. If she graduates, I will give her the original check. If she does not graduate, can I get my money back by taking the cashier's check back to the bank?

I'm thinking of getting foglights mounted over the cab of a new truck. Any help on how much it might cost?

The remote door key opener for my Uplander got so weak it didn't work anymore. I bought a new battery at Radio Shack. Still didn't work. Radio Shack checked the battery, said it was good. The dealership said I might need to bring the remote controls back in to be re-programmed. Anyone ever done that and how much did it cost?

My non-fiction about a regional mystery just came out. Someone posted a five-star review on amazon. I found out later that it was the wife of a guy I used to work with. I've never met her, but another former colleague told me. I can get her e-mail. What should I do? Send her an e-mail to thank her? Or, ignore her? After all that's what fans are for, to write reviews about how much they enjoyed the book.

It's been in the news, the girl kidnapped 18 years ago by a sex offender. He fathered two children by her, kept them all in some kind of backyard camping arrangement. I can't help but wonder what kind of job he had, or where the money came from for food and rent (or property taxes)?

That's a food budget for five people, including himself and his wife. That ain't cheap.

I need some advice about writing a will and establishing a living trust for a single person with no minor children, but every book I find has a lot of advice about things I don't need, like writing joint documents with a spouse (which I don't have) or providing for minor children (which I don't have). It's hard wading through all that other stuff, that pertains to people with more complicated lives, to get the basics I need.

What is the best way to pass intellectual property, i.e., copyrights, to survivors, by will, or by a trust?

In the sentence: "The Navy warship HMCS Winnipeg is slated to return to Canada on Friday . . ." what do the initials HMCS mean?

I have an AC power charger for my Apple laptop. Normally, I plug it in and wait for the light to turn from orange to green. The only time I tried to use the laptop while it was plugged into the charger, the "available time" still kept shrinking.

My husband and I are co-trustees for the trust of a friend who passed away. Fairly quickly after the death, we contacted one of the banks where the decedent had an account to inform them. The bank said they did not want an account that had co-trustees. We said we would have to withdraw the funds, if we couldn't function as co-trustees, and that's exactly what happened. It's hard to believe that a bank would let an account go.

"The more things change, the more they remain the same." Someone famous said that, and I'll be darned if I have any idea who is was. I could even be wrong with the exact wording, but I think I'm close.

What does it mean in a NASCAR race to say someone is a pole sitter? Today's newspaper report of Sunday's race says: "Martin, the pole sitter, has yet to win in 16 Brickyard starts."

So you can actually see if the trap is clogged up. There ought to be an easier way to unfasten the trap, clear it out, put it back in place and be able to use the sink again.

How does a business that provides 24-hour answering service charge their customers? Flat fee? Per call?

What is the advantage of using erasable ink? I usually do my writing with a pencil and a HUGE eraser. I've been wondering if there might be advantages to erasable ink.

My husband can't kick the nicotine habit (he doesn't want to). He now lives in a wheelchair. I took him to a social gathering of old friends at a bar yesterday. He was enjoying the visit, but after about an hour I had to move him in his wheelchair to a place outside the building, so he could have a cigarette, after which I had to move him back inside again. It's was terribly inconvenient, we had to ask several people to move their chairs. Is there any other nicotine equivalent that an addict like him could use that would be the equivalent of a cigarette? I'll swear if I had an uncontrollable habit like that, I would know what the alternatives are.

Apparently every piece of paper the Beatles ever wrote anything on can now be sold to a collector's market. How much might the original manuscripts for a book written by Michael Connelly sell?