Outdoor Recreational Areas category: 326 books

With holidays and summer vacation, it can get difficult to come up with stuff to keep the kids from getting bored. Vacation Boredom Busters is packed with activities, games, crafts, recipes and more to ward off boredom. The Vacation Boredom Busters is separated into themed sections. Randomly...

Biff America is a wonderfully funny mix of Andy Rooney and Garrison Keillor.From low-flow toilets to prostate pride, knee surgery to avalanche fatalities, gay marriage to schoolyard bullies, Biff America poignantly writes what the American people need to know. Through it all, Biff America has...

In honor of Southern Living's 50th anniversary, we present our best-ever collection of gardening ideas and advice, from growing information for top Southern plants to tours of the South's most beautiful gardens.

Are you thinking about building out a deck for your house? If you are handy with tools and like to build things yourself, this article will provide you with enough help to finish the project. Learning how to build a deck - even a simple deck - means following specific steps, no matter what the design....

Discover the satisfaction of making your own durable, economical, and environmentally friendly timber frame structures. Covering all aspects of timber frame construction, this practical guide is filled with easy-to-understand instructions, clear illustrations, and helpful photographs. With expert...

Build a brick wall to create some privacy in your yard, contain soil, divide property lines or as a retaining wall for a plant bed. It can be challenging to build a brick wall, which is why in most cases they're only built by those people trained and experienced in masonry. However, if you would...

This is a basic guide on How to lay a patio

A Crash Course on How to Get Rid of Earwigs Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera, found throughout the Americas, Eurasia, Australia and New Zealand. With 1,800 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cerci, a pair of forceps pincers...

This book explains how to easily maintain your home spa. Here we are talking about a modern fiberglass spa. This is how we do it at our house as spa newbies. With the caveat that spas vary greatly as does water, hopefully this helps you to take the mystery out of spa maintenance! Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.

This photo-rich book is the tool every DIYer and homeowner needs to plan and design a beautiful custom deck. If you're looking to build a new deck or remodel the one you have, you want to start by spreading some innovative deck designs in front of you. Look no further than Deck Ideas You Can Use....

25 years of camping craziness--A Survival Guide! Exploding Toilets, Animal Hazards, Mudwrestling with Angry Nuns, Food & Drink Disasters, and other common camping mishaps, all (mostly) true! Plus great (& real) food & drink recipes, including Deep-Fried Cajun Turkey and BBQ Armadillo....

Staying in the small village of Cordon and exploring the island of Arran, it would be nice to describe this as a deeply researched multi-faceted account of Arran's history and development through the eons - but its not. This short travelogue records the activities and observations of a group...

In Martial Arts Home Training: The Complete Guide to the Construction and Use of Home Training Equipment, police and SWAT trainer Mike Young shows you how to make and use ingenious home training aids-from such inexpensive, easily obtainable resources as a grocery bag, an old towel, a worn-out tire,...

“Provides inspiration for turning a tired garden into an enlivening treat.” —The English Garden Your garden, just like your house, sometimes needs a makeover. The change can be as minor as replacing a shrub or as major as pulling everything up and starting from scratch. No matter the...