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HOME+GARDEN | ENTERPRISE-RECORD+MERCURY-REGISTER FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2017

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Performance Baldwin Ave., Oroville, 533- 891-2762. Gridley library, 5397. Tuesday-Saturday. rial Hall, 554 Rio Lindo Ave.,
org.
California Regional 9418. 10a.m., 299 Spruce St. Chico Creek Nature Chico. 865-2208. Widowers Social Break-
Theatre: 7:30p.m. “Willy Missionaries to the Un- 846-3323. Center: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Ja- fast: 9a.m. Kalico Kitchen,
Wonka and the Chocolate born: 9a.m.-noon. Public Story time and craft: 11 neece Webb Living Animal Clubs 2396The Esplanade, Chico.
Factory.” A boy finds the property, 1469Humboldt a.m. Paradise library, 5922 Museum; Wednesday- High 12Club: Noon. Si- Booth No. 5.
fifth Golden Ticket to win Road. Pray for unborn chil- Clark Road. 872-6320. Saturday. Exhibits, animals, erra Sunrise Terrace Lodge, Iversen Wellness & Re-
a lifetime supply of choco- dren. 891-0427. Chico Museum: 11a.m.-4 public programs. 1968 E. Chico. covery Center and Med
late and a chance to meet Butte County Histori- p.m. “Chico Through Time” Eighth St. $4 adults, $2 National Active and Re- Clinic: Closed for Good
Willy Wonka. $20advance, cal Society Museum: 9 exhibit: The Grand Hotels children. 891-4671, info@ tired Federal Employees: Friday. 492Rio Lindo Ave.
$18.50senior/child, $16.50 a.m.-noon. Donation. 1735 of Chico; We are Hmong, bidwellpark.org. Noon potluck, meet. Para- Wellness, 879-3311; Med
each family group, $5extra Spencer St., Oroville, 533- We are Your Neighbors; Free lunch: Noon-1:30 p.m. dise Ridge Senior Center, Clinic, 879-3974.
door fee. CRT box office, 9418. 1880s Historic Chinese Paradise Lutheran Church, 877Nunneley Road. Paradise Hospice Brunch
1-800-722-4522or at Chico Air Museum: 10a.m.- Temple; Chico City Schools, 780 Luther Drive. Paradise. Duplicate Bridge: 12:30 Bunch: 9:30-11a.m. Cozy
www.crtshows.com. Center 3p.m. Aircraft, aviation and elementary classroom 100 877-3549. p.m. One session of games Diner, 6371Skyway. Support
for the Arts, 1475East Ave. space artifacts, documents; years ago; behind-the- Gateway Science Mu- open to all. Bidwell Bridge to anyone who has lost a
outdoor jet and propeller scenes of 1938 movie, seum: Noon-5 p.m. “Design Studio, Native Daughters of loved one. 877-8755.
Community driven aircraft; research “Robin Hood,” filmed in Zone, Delta Grandeur and the Golden West hall, 965 Narcotics Anonymous:
Blood drive: 8a.m.-1p.m. library, gift shop, speaker Bidwell Park; police, fire Our Ocean’s Edge.” Noon-5 Salem St. 892-0350; cf- 5:30p.m. Bethel AME, 821
BloodSource, 555Rio Lindo series, events by arrange- department equipment; p.m. Displays and hands-on fraz@saber.net. Linden St. 24-hour hotline:
Ave., Chico.893-5433. ment. Aerospace history World War II era artifacts activities for all ages. Entry Oroville Amateur Radio 877-6361.
Blood drive: 7:15a.m.-2 of Chico and surrounding from Chico; historic Chico $7, ages 18+; $5ages 3-17 Society: 7p.m. St. Paul’s Narcotics Anonymous:
p.m. Friday. BloodSource, areas. Free, but donations photos. Suggested dona- and students with valid ID; Episcopal Church, 1430Pine Noon, open meeting (JFT ),
555Rio Lindo Ave., Chico. helpful. 165Ryan Ave., tions: $5 adults, $3 seniors/ free to ages 2and under. St. 589-4734. 2234Park Ave.: 6p.m. Chico
893-5433. Chico Airport. 345-6468. students/ages 5-12; free to 625The Esplanade. 898- Bidwell Group, rotating,
Temporary restraining www.chicoairmuseum.org. ages 4 and under. 141 Salem 4121. Health, emotional Community Church of God,
order help: Call for coun- Thursday-Sunday. St. 891-4336. Gold Nugget Museum: support 1095 East Ave.; 7:30p.m.
selor availability. 330Wall Ridge Coalition for Peace Valene L. Smith Anthro- Noon-4 p.m. 502Pearson Alcoholics Anonymous: Living Clean, open. 2234
St. Suite 50. 343-7711. and Justice: 10a.m.-2p.m. pology Museum: 11 a.m.-3 Road, Paradise. 872-8722. Chico Central, 6:30a.m., Park Ave. 1-877-669-1669.
For victims of domestic daily; 10a.m. programs and p.m. “Hmong Reflections: goldnuggetmuseum@aol. noon., 5:30, 7p.m. 1102
violence. Free. Sponsored by Services Committee meet Stories of Our Own.” com. Mangrove Ave., Chico; Submit calendar listings
Catalyst Domestic Violence at 6023Skyway. 762-1333, History through multiple Pinochle Games: 7p.m. Mom’s Alcoholics Anony- by email calendar@
Services. 1-800-895-8476. www.pctn.org. generations of Hmong Community Center, 545 mous Noon, 3:30, 5:30, 8 chicoer.com, fax 342-3617
Weekdays. Bilingual Story Garden: Americans, from Southeast Vallombrosa Ave., Chico. $1 p.m. 2109The Esplanade, or mail Enterprise-Record,
Butte County Histori- 10a.m. Stories, English and Asia to Northern California. play. Suite 110, Chico. Meet P.O. Box 9, Chico, CA,
cal Society Archives: 9 Spanish songs for new- Meriam Library, Chico State VFW Post, Ladies Auxil- times, locations or talk to 95927. Online calendar
a.m.-noon, $3per person borns through age 5. Chico campus. Free admission, iary, Chico: 7p.m. Meet and recovering alcoholic, 342- also available at www.
research per day. 2335 library, 1108Sherman Ave., donations welcome. 898- social time. Veterans Memo- 5756. www.aabutte-glenn. calendar.chicoer.com.

Community briefs CRAFTS

PATRICK RANCH

Workshop to cover
rose gardens. Bird pho-
tographs will help iden-
grafting, budding tify those rose garden
visitors.
A free workshop on Guests are welcome to
grafting fruit trees is attend for free. Member-
planned 10-11:30 a.m. ship is $25.
Thursday by the Butte Questions can be di-
County Master Garden- rected to Cyndy, 530-
ers at Pat’s Barn on the 966-5009.
Patrick Ranch on the
Midway between Chico CHICO
and Durham. Herbarium workshop
Grafting and budding
are methods of plant planned for April 29
propagation that join Friends of the Chico
parts of different plants State Herbarium will
so that they will grow as host a workshop on
one plant. These tech- “Plant Collecting and
niques are used to prop- Making Herbarium
agate cultivars that do Specimens” on campus,
not reproduce well by 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April
other methods. 29, and advance regis-
After the lecture a tration is required.
hands-on demonstra- Emily Meigs Doe and
tion of budding will take Linnea Hanson will
place in the demonstra- lead the workshop. Doe
tion fruit orchard. worked as a field bota-
Registration is re- nist for the U.S. Forest
quired at http://tinyurl. Service and as an assis-
com/l75raer. For more tant at the Herbarium.
information email an- Hanson is a retired bot-
rmgbutte@ou.ad3.ucda- anist from the Plumas
vis.edu. National Forest.
Meet in Holt Hall,
CHICO Room 129 on the Chico
Native flower show State University campus.
Cost is $75 in advance.
and sale is April 23 For more information
Mount Lassen Chap- and registration, contact
ter, Native Plant So- the Biology office, 898-
ciety will host an an- 5356 or email sschol-
nual Wildflower Show ten@csuchico.edu.
and Native Plant Sale on For information about
April 23. It will be noon upcoming workshops,
to 4 p.m. at the Chico visit http://tinyurl.com/
Instead of dyeing Easter eggs, try decoupage
By Holly Ramer
The Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. >> When it
comes to Easter eggs, dip-
ping them in dye is fine, but
for a more decorative and
longer-lasting result, try de-
coupage.
I tried two DIY techniques
for adding colors and pat-
terns to eggs using decoup-
age glue — Mod Podge is a
popular brand. One tech-
nique paired vintage book
pages with plastic eggs, an-
other used printed napkins
with real eggs, and the third
involved fabric and Styro-
foam.
Here’s what I found, with
each method rated from 1
to 10, with 10 indicating the
least expensive, easiest and
best results:
Book pages-plastic eggs
This tutorial comes from
a blog called “SewforSoul”
(http://bit.ly/1G8MTDF ) and
was published in “Reloved”
magazine. While it was the
most time-consuming tech-
nique I tried, it yielded the
most impressive results.
To make these eggs, small
strips of plain paper are glued
Crops (Leafout Date)
to plastic eggs to serve as a
base layer that hides the col-
ored plastic. Once that layer
has dried, the egg is buffed
by rubbing it with the back
of a spoon to smooth out
any rough edges. The eggs
are then covered with small
strips of paper torn from an
old book, overlapping the
strips at random until the
egg is completely covered.
More drying and buffing,
and then additional designs
cut from paper napkins are
glued to the eggs. A wash of
watered-down craft paint
gives the eggs a distressed, HOLLY RAMER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
antique look. The original Plastic Easter eggs covered with strips of paper torn from
version of this method fea- book pages, while designs cut from paper napkins add a bit
tured black-and-white im- of color.
ages, but I used napkins fea-
turing colored illustrations that involves real eggs and expensive, especially if you
of Peter Rabbit to brighten decorative paper napkins. scramble up the egg’s con-
them up a bit. I loved the pas- To try this method, pierce tents for breakfast, and pro-
tel, shabby chic result. holes into either end of the duced very pretty, elegant
COST: 7 egg and blow out the con- results. Real eggs are frag-
EASE: 5 tents. Cut around designs ile, however — I cracked
RESULTS: 9 from a paper napkin — I one open trying to enlarge
chose a floral pattern — and one of the holes — so this
Napkins-real eggs separate the layers to work method wouldn’t be the
with just one layer of tissue. best to do with young chil-
Craft maven Martha Apply decoupage glue to the dren.
Stewart’s website (http:// egg and adhere the designs, COST: 8
bit.ly/22BGbyd ) features and then cover the entire EASE: 7
multiple techniques for de- egg with a coat of glue. RESULTS: 8
coupage eggs, including one This technique was in-
WEEKLY ET REPORT
(Estimated Crop Evapotranspiration or ETc)
04/05/17 through 04/11/17
Tehama County - Gerber South Butte County - Biggs Butte County - Durham Colusa County - Williams
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Community Center, 545 n6p3688. of Water

Use
Seasonal
Water Use
Estimated
ETc
of Water
Use
Seasonal
Water Use
Estimated
ETc
of Water
Use
Seasonal
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Estimated
ETc
of Water
Use
Seasonal
Water Use
Estimated
ETc
Vallombrosa Ave. Pasture [ ETo ] 0.74 5.78 1.19 0.70 5.75 1.13 0.62 5.55 1.13 0.76 6.31 1.22
There will be more PATRICK RANCH Olives Table * 0.56 4.41 0.91 0.53 4.39 0.85 0.47 4.19 0.85 0.58 4.79 0.94
Olives High Density * 0.45 3.46 0.72 0.42 3.44 0.70 0.37 3.32 0.70 0.46 3.78 0.73
than 300 species of na- Master Gardeners Citrus * 0.48 3.77 0.77 0.45 3.78 0.71 0.41 3.64 0.71 0.49 4.13 0.80
tive plants and sales, na-
ture walks, children’s have spring plant Almonds (2/21) *
Cling Peaches (3/1) *
0.58
0.29
3.71
1.44
0.97
0.55
0.55
0.28
3.81
1.44
0.92
0.49
0.49
0.25
3.55
1.31
0.92
0.49
0.59
0.30
4.03
1.54
0.98
0.58
activities, and books and sale Pistachios (4/16) *
Prunes (3/20) *
0.00
0.59
0.00
2.20
0.23
1.04
0.00
0.56
0.00
2.17
0.21
0.98
0.00
0.50
0.00
2.01
0.21
0.98
0.00
0.62
0.00
2.44
0.24
1.07
T-shirts for sale. Admis- Find plants, tomato Walnuts (4/1) * 0.43 0.91 0.82 0.41 0.87 0.76 0.37 0.81 0.76 0.45 0.97 0.85
sion is $5 for adults, free starts, workshops, gar- Urban Turf Grass 0.60 4.39 0.96 0.56 4.35 0.92 0.51 4.17 0.92 0.61 4.74 0.98
for children. den tours, and more at Past 7 days precipitation (inches) (1.89) (1.24) (1.52) (0.88)
Accumulated precipitation (inches) (4.04) (3.32) (4.72) (2.21)
For more, visit www. the Demonstration Gar-
Accumulations started on February 21, 2017 or on the approximate leafout date for a specific orchard crop as indicated in parentheses. Criteria for beginning this report are based on the season’s last
mountlassen.cnps.org. den at Patrick Ranch on significant rainfall event where the soil moisture profile is estimated to be near its highest level for the new season.
April 22. Over the last * Estimates are for orchard floor conditions where vegetation is managed by some combination of strip applications of herbicides, frequent mowing or tillage, and by mid and late season shading and water
CHICO several months, Mas- stress. Weekly estimates of soil moisture loss can be as much as 25 percent higher in orchards where cover crops are planted and managed more intensively for maximum growth.

Birds and roses ter Gardeners have been

topic for April
meeting
The April meeting of
the Butte Rose Society
will focus on birds.
The meeting will be
at 7 p.m. April 25 at the
Chico Veterans Hall, 554 ing Your Native Plants at
Rio Lindo Ave.
Rose society member
John McCormick will
be talking about birds
that are attracted to
2690 Feather River Blvd. • 534-1885
Starting Friday
April 14 th
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The Fate of The Furious
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12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:15, 5:30,
6:30, 7:00, 8:30, 9:15, 9:45
Smurfs:
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12:50 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00
Going In Style (PG13)
1:10 3:15 5:20 7:25 9:30
The Boss Baby (PG)
1:00 3:05 7:15 9:20
Ghost in The Shell (R )
1:00 3:10
Beauty & The Beast (PG)
12:45 3:45 6:45 9:25
Kong: Skull Island
(PG13)
1:20 4:10 7:10 9:40
Daily Bargain Matinees - $7.00
All shows starting before 6pm
Tight-Wed Tuesday-$5.00 All Movies All Day!
busy propagating plants
selected to thrive in our
Mediterranean climate,
including tomato starts.
The sale is 9 a.m. to
1 p.m., and admission
is free. Two workshops
are being offered: Plant-
8:30 a.m. and Monarchs
and Milkweed at 10 a.m.
For a complete list of
plants and workshops de-
tails, visit http://ucanr.
edu/p/56939. Registra-
tion for the workshops
is required at http://ti-
nyurl.com/l75raer.
Patrick Ranch is lo-
cated at 10381 Midway,
just south of Chico.
Tour
FROM PAGE 1
age since making these
changes.
Plantings in the creek
bed garden include spirea,
artemesia, Russian and
Mexican sage, day lilies, co-
reopsis, echinacea, rock-
roses and junipers.
In addition to the azaleas,
the backyard has several
dwarf spruce, dwarf mugo
pines, cold-tolerant ferns
and sages to attract butter-
flies and hummingbirds.
We have several bird feed-
ers and baths, and enjoy sit-
ting in the garden listening
to the sounds of the birds
and the fountain. BILL HUSA — ENTERPRISE-RECORD
We hope you enjoy your Frogs are a common element found throughout the garden of Larry and Michelle Brockett
visit. in north Chico.
into season. Weeks ago, the early part of the sea- http://tinyurl.com/lb-
Sow there all you could find were
primrose and pansies.
son die, you can find
something more suitable
8v6q8notes that now is
the time to plant seeds
FROM PAGE 1 This week you’ll find for the warm season. for spinach, fava beans,
six-packs of cosmos and carrots, cucumbers,
different plants depend- shade-happy impatiens. More thoughts green beans, squash and
ing on what’s coming When those plants from on food melons. Hot-weather
plants including toma-
TOOL SHARPENING For vegetables, it’s toes and peppers can
time to get busy with be purchased as small
seeds, if you haven’t al- plants.
FANNO ready.
The UC Davis vege- Contact reporter Heather
SAW WORKS
Two blocks North of Enloe table planting guide, Hacking at 896-7758.
224 W. 8th Ave. • 895-1762