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- Almanac
Catch A Mouse is a cheese-shaped portal that screws onto an empty water bottle. A mouse enters through a trap door in search of bait you've placed in the bottle, and it can't get back out. The bottle holds the live mouse until you release it outdoors. $6.99 plus shipping at greenbottleusa.com.
- Insect Fest
Celebrate all things that creep and crawl at the Quail Botanical Gardens' annual Family Insect Festival. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 12 and 13; 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas.
- Datebook
Learn the art of making cushions including the basics of construction, shapes and styles. 10 a.m. July 10; We-R-Fabrics, 963 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. Free. Reservations: (858) 755-1175.
- You can create a garden that's dirt cheap
'Prune spending and you'll harvest dollars,” my farm-reared grandmother used to say, which endures as a practical approach to gardening in this period of fast-rising fuel and food costs.
- ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING RALPH AND TERRY KOVEL
Refinishing won't hurt value of some furniture
Don't refinish your furniture. Original finish adds to the value. This warning is given over and over on TV shows about antiques.
But is it always true? No. An original finish on a superior exmple of an 18th-, 19th-or even 20th-century piece of furniture should add value. But because well-to-do Victorian housewives had their furniture touched up and polished every few years, many pieces now have finishes that, while not original, are more than 100 years old.
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