To get the best results when painting, you need to spend time before you start properly prepping the room and the walls. It makes all the difference, and with this tutorial video, you can have professional-looking results and the pride of knowing you did it yourself. Tools needed: drop cloth, 5-in-1 tool, painter’s masking tape, bucket, sponge, dust mask, painter’s tool, putty knife, spackling compound, drywall joint compound, trisodium phosphate (TSP), rubber gloves, tack cloth, caulking gun, acrylic latex caulk, additional lighting, step ladder or stool, shop-vac, blade knife, rags, sanding sponge, sandpaper, and primer For more tips visit...

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17th, and here is a brief history of the holiday: The campaign to celebrate Father’s Day did not have the same enthusiasm as Mother’s Day. It was not until July 5th, 1908, that a West Virginian church sponsored the nation’s first event to honor fathers. They held a Sunday service in memory of 362 men who had perished in an explosion at the Fairmont Coal Company mine in Monogah, West Virginia the previous December. In 1910 in Spokane, Washington, a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried...

The American flag is one of the world’s most recognized symbols. National Flag Day was made official in 1949 and is celebrated every year on June 14. It is not a federal holiday but commemorates the anniversary of the 1777 adoption of the U.S. flag. Here are some facts about the American flag. Today, the flag has 13 stripes and 50 stars. The first official national flag was approved by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The original design featured 13 stars to represent the 13 colonies. Two more stars and stripes were added in 1795 to total...

Memorial Day is a day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice while defending our nation. During the American Civil War, approximately 600,000 soldiers were killed in action and almost every community in every state suffered the loss of young men. As the war came to an end, mourners in both Southern and Northern states placed flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers. On May 5, 1866, the citizens of Waterloo, New York closed their shops in businesses so that everyone could decorate the graves of the men killed during the war. John A. Logan was the leader...