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How to Winterize Your Home

As winter approaches and temperatures begin to drop, it is important to prepare your home for the cold months that lie ahead. Preparing in advance may save you money, time, work and stress later. Follow these steps to prepare your home for winter.

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Dad Builds Boeing 737 Cockpit In His Kid’s Bedroom

                You were able to build a train set in your kids room? How simple. When you are ready to step it up a bit and really build something special, I recommend building an actual 747 cockpit. Let me introduce to you Laurent Aigon, a father in France […]

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Craft Project For Dad

Kids and dads making cool stuff: It’s a dynamic trio that book publishers are finally noticing. Evidence: Scott Bedford’s “Made by Dad: 67 Blueprints for Making Cool Stuff” (Workman); and Mike Adamick’s “Dad’s Book of Awesome Projects” (F + W Media), both new this year. Bedford, who blogs at whatimade.com and writes a column for […]

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How To Install Training Wheels

This week at the local thrift store, I found a deal on a couple of bikes for my girls. It was easy to tell that the bikes at one point had come prefabricated with designer training wheels and hardware. The only remnant of these training wheels were the leftover hardware still on the bike…

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