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Time to Winterize your Golf Carts

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:December 19, 2011
  • Post category:Island Living/Winter
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Bobby Postlethwaite of Best Golf Carts suggests the following strategies for winterizing your golf cart, or for when it will be sitting for an extended period of time.  Most of…

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Screen door catch a huge help

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:December 14, 2011
  • Post category:Island Living
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This little piece of hardware is one of my new favorite things! As the springs on our screen door age and weather with the salt air, finding a way to…

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Fruit Fly Solutions: Build your own cheap traps

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:November 16, 2011
  • Post category:Island Living
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One of the dangers of being an avid composter is that, if you forget to take out the compost before leaving your house for a few weeks, you will have…

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Butterfly Tagging

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:October 30, 2011
  • Post category:Fall/Featured Creature/Island Living/Uncategorized
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On Friday, the Dewees Island Conservancy sponsored a butterfly tagging program on Dewees Island with long-time island friend and fantastic Naturalist Billy McCord. Everyone I told about this responded with…

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SCDNR seeking information on Sheepshead fishery

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:October 13, 2011
  • Post category:Island Living/News
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If you hold a recreational salt water fishing license in the state of SC, you should have been invited to participate in a survey about managing the sheepshead fishery.  Dewees…

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More about Bottled Water

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:September 11, 2011
  • Post category:ForDeweesRentals/Island Living
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The EPB has been encouraging us to cut our carbon footprint.  We've talked about bottled water before; now the folks from The Story of Stuff have produced a video about bottled…

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Labor Day means Dammit!ball

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:September 2, 2011
  • Post category:Fall/Island Living
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Yes, it's that time of year again.  We're sorry to miss the action, but if you are on the island this weekend, the annual tournament will be Sunday the 4th…

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Curt Salisbury, deckhand and photographer

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:August 20, 2011
  • Post category:Island Living
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Check out this fantastic photo! Curt managed to capture a pelican playing with a shrimp. It looks worthy of winning some great photocontests to me! (I have included a small,…

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Trash and Recycling Center Reorganized

  • Post author:reggiefairchild
  • Post published:August 18, 2011
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The Dewees Utility staff has reorganized the trash and recycling center to try to make it easier for people to know where to put what. They've also added clear labels…

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Great Activity: Float from Lone Cedar to Big Bend

  • Post author:Judy Drew Fairchild
  • Post published:August 17, 2011
  • Post category:Island Living/Summer
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We had a spur-of-the-moment creek float from Lone Cedar to Big Bend on Sunday.  We learned a few things, and we had a great time.  Below is a video about…

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