Home and Garden Briefs
Home and Garden Briefs

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Published: July 24, 2008

Garden access

NORMAN — Gardening is therapeutic and should be enjoyed by everyone. But many public gardens are difficult for handicapped people to navigate, and home gardening may seem out of reach. The Cleveland County Master Gardener Association Demonstration and Teaching Garden area is an example of how anyone can garden at home in limited space or under different circumstances.

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The association has added four elevated, planted boxes in the demonstration and teaching garden for the use and enjoyment of visitors in wheelchairs.

The garden's new section is accessible from the garden entrance.

Free tours are offered from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays and Saturdays. For more information, call 321-4774.

Sticky situation

POUF!, a package of 20 adhesive sheets, looks like a small deck of cards. But the handy little stickers remove pet hair on furniture, upholstery and car seats.

POUF! is made at Mrs. Grossman's factory in Petaluma, Calif. The stickers are in collections of guide dogs, chubby dogs, shaggy dogs, neighborhood dogs, dogs life and classic cats.

packages of stickers sell for $3.99. Part of the proceeds is donated to Guide Dogs for the Blind. Go online to mrsgrossmans.com or shop at local craft and specialty stores.

Opening Friday

•Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly appear in "Step Brothers” as lazy, middle-age, overgrown boys who become stepbrothers when their parents get married.

• "The X-Files: I Want to Believe” is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the most acclaimed and beloved episodes of the complicated relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The science-fiction thriller takes some unexpected turns.

•Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth star in "When Did You Last See Your Father?” a story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.

This weekend

•The annual Mid Summer Thunder Motorcycle Rally will be from 8 a.m. to midnight today through Sunday at Belle Starr Park in Eufaula. The rally features live music, 40 vendors, bike games, charity poker runs, a bike show and other events for ages 18 and older. Cost is $25 at the gate for all four days. For information, go online to www.midsummer

thunder.com.

From Staff Reports