Pitty-Pat’s: It’s not just for Christmas (12/18) Dec 19, 2008
I spotted ice buckets and serving dishes, pillows and mulling spices, and artificial topiaries. There was seasoned salt and steak and prime rib rub, along with all kinds of home furnishings. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Wine industry takes root in N.E. Georgia Oct 5, 2008
Workers dump grapes into larger buckets during the harvest at Persimmon Creek Vineyard in 2003. Special. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Madison County police blotter Sep 17, 2008
Gasoline also was removed from one tractor-trailer, and several plastic buckets were taken along with a hand operated fuel pump. A piece of water hose was used to siphon the fuel. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Strapped for cash, some in New... Sep 1, 2008
Though Maspero wasn't doing half the business it usually does, customers were still coming in for $2 clam buckets. A few packs of tourists, identifiable by their slightly off-kilter walk and gigantic hot pink test tubes of booze, ambled down St. Louis Street, peeking into bars and asking, "You still open?". (CNN -- Law)
English country retreatsworth every pound Aug 30, 2008
Just like their Old School counterparts, New School country house hotels boast picture-perfect rolling hills, quiet country lanes and buckets of rain at the most inopportune time. But this is Englandand you packed your wellies, didnt you. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Iowa case raises question: Is stripping an art? Jul 28, 2008
50 Domestic Bottles Domestic Buckets. $4. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
An Affair to Remember Jul 13, 2008
She picked up on the bright reds in the patio umbrella and seat cushions with vibrant accessories like a striped table runner and her own creation: "planterns." She spray-painted five plastic 5-gallon buckets red, replaced the regular handles with chains, put bright yellow yellow candles on a baking dish on top, and strung them up around the patio. "They can be used as lanterns or planters," she says. (Boston Globe)
A Look Back in Time: Things endure Jun 16, 2008
Buckets of ire -- Even though the Pathfinder article took more than half the front page of the June 17 Tribune, the newspaper did weigh in with a snooty article about a court finding in a water use lawsuit. Presiding in district court in Lander, Judge Charles Carpenter ruled in favor of Wyoming Central Irrigation and against Settlers Co-operative Irrigation Co. The Tribune writer gloated by saying it was the right decision to have favored WCI on every point. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Getting gold May 24, 2008
Robnett took one look at the buckets full of gold-like material and broke the bad news: If they held real gold, the man wouldn't be able to lift them ... In a full day's work, sifting through about 30 buckets of dirt, a lucky gold panner could make 30 to 50 in gold, if he's lucky, Hutchings said ... Compared with an eight-plus hour day of leaning over buckets of mud in the river to get perhaps 30 worth of gold, antiquing starts to sound better. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Flagler deputies find 2nd grow house Apr 2, 2008
There were plenty of buckets, PVC pipes and irrigation. The electricity was re-routed to avoid detection by the power company, O'Brien said. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Hundreds flock to Delavan Community Auction Mar 25, 2008
DELAVAN An Amish courting buggy seemed right at home in Delavan among the old farm equipment, milk buckets and other antiques lining the streets of the historic downtown. I bought the buggy four years ago, said Butch Beccue of Creekside Carriage. (Pekin Times, IL)
Dear Editor, Feb 29, 2008
First, thank you citizens for every penny to every 100 bill and check that was placed in the buckets ... Thank you for the food donated by Long's Donut Shop and Kentucky Fried Chicken; the buckets for collecting from Couch's BBQ and Baker Lumber; Phil Smith and Checkerboard Antiques for letting us use their corner and also Victory Insurance for that corner; Regions Bank (official MAW bank) for counting our money; Carin McClung and the Trumann Democrat for the great coverage for this event each... (Truman Democrat, AR)
In brief: Family Dates Jan 25, 2008
Buckets of Fun -- Festival on Ice: Celebrate National Skating Month with activities including Fun Bucket Challenge for ages 6 and under, clinics, figure skating demonstrations, hockey skills and bikes on ice, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Goose Lake Park. Free. (Anchorage Daily News)
The past is omnipresent Jan 21, 2008
Tighten bodices, quiver lips and ladle out buckets of bucolic charm. For, as the great debate about public service broadcasting - pay more, slice more, spread more. (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
Chili Cook-Off and Soup Cook-Off Jan 17, 2008
Stomp is a high-energy, percussive symphony, coupled with dance, played entirely on unconventional instruments, such as garbage can lids, buckets, brooms and sticks. Founded on the simple idea of using ordinary objects to create extraordinary rhythms, it is a movement of bodies, objects, sounds even abstract ideas made completely original in a dynamic celebration of sound and movement. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
State drops killing charge Jan 8, 2008
At Watson's on Monday, two of Ponce's six sons worked at the produce stand where their father died, selling buckets of tomatoes, jalapenos and bunches of cilantro to a small stream of customers. Neither Oscar nor Hector Ponce knew that charges had been dropped against Goytortua until a reporter informed them. (News & Observer)
Buttered Corn Days: success and a half Aug 23, 2007
The St. John's pie stand ran out of pies and the Root beer stand went through 18 buckets of ice cream. e cooked almost 2,100 hamburgers. (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch, MN)
Danger in the toy box Aug 16, 2007
But Johnson cringes when she thinks of the buckets of Thomas engines she has packed away in her attic for visiting friends -- and future grandchildren. She heard a toy company executive on the news talking about the recall and the efforts being made to protect children. (News & Observer)
Behind the scenes Jun 29, 2007
Custodians life cruises beyond mops and buckets ... But the custodian at Cross Lanes Elementary School has a life that reaches far beyond brooms, mop buckets and Lysol. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Sales abound community-wide Jun 16, 2007
This year's event features 101 stops with every item imaginable to shoppers, from movies and books, to buckets and fishing gear. "I like garage sales because you get to buy cool stuff," Jamie Reitz, 9, of Buchanan said. (Niles Star, MI)
The Cougar Lounge - Won Ton Math Jun 4, 2007
- Rick Jones, owner of FishBait Marketing, which represents associations of athletic directors, football and basketball coaches, identifying a worldwide shortage of more cheap, plastic crap and branded buckets of chicken. "I ate with this girl, I went to San Francisco with this girl, she was like my sister.". (Washington State Sports -- Rivals.com)
'Waterfall' wreaks havoc at Lightner Jun 3, 2007
He pointed out longtime water stains on the ceilings, buckets permanently used to catch water in storage areas, and sections of plaster peeling from the walls due to water damage ... "We're constantly mopping and putting out buckets so people don't get hurt," she said. (The St. Augustine Record)
Your Plate Is Bigger Than Your Stomach May 2, 2007
The crux of the experiment lay in the size of the buckets that held the popcorn. Some people got merely big buckets, while others received truly enormous ones ... Yet when the Wansink research team weighed the buckets after the movie, there was a huge difference in the amounts the two groups ate. (Shoals TimesDaily)
Click here to read more. Apr 30, 2007
At the two-room schoolhouse in Sumerduck, elementary school students carried in wood to heat the building, brought buckets of water to wash their hands and used outhouses for bathroom breaks. "It was rough going," said William Eugene Smith, who attended the school in 1925-27, "what with the wood stoves, and going outside to go to the bathroom, and I had to walk 2 miles to school, carrying my lunch pail.". (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Around your town Apr 27, 2007
The sale will feature embellished shirts, gift buckets, apron sets, candles, jewelry, baked goods, quilted items and much more. Call Judy at 378-0312. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
LISTMANIA: Things we wish were still here. Apr 5, 2007
Denver Doug wrote on March 31, 2007 4:08 PM:"These are more in the category of events and institutions than specific places: BEANPICKING!!! I remember us kids aged 8-13 used to gather at the Tabernacle grounds about 5 in the morning every weekday in the late summer with our bean buckets and get bused out to the mosquito-infested bean fields around the valley and pick beans for 2-3 cents a pound. If I would have picked a pound of beans for every mosquito bite I got, I would have been rich.... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
A mountain of fun Mar 7, 2007
Apr s-ski begins for 20-somethings at Buckets Bones and Brews deck side in the upper base lodge (603-236-8311, ext. 3142, , $6-$18). (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Rams headed to state tourney Mar 5, 2007
She finished with six long-range buckets. Tessler said his team took advantage of Lassen's point guard being unavailable because of an injury. (Fresno Bee -- Sports)
Gardeners Embrace Technology to Save Plants Feb 23, 2007
Today's electronic rain gauges use tiny built-in self-tipping buckets that fill with just 1/100th of an inch of water, and record each time the little bucket tips, all while you remain cozily indoors. Equipment now available for home use is similar to that used by professional forecasters. (The Ledger)
