A sensory feast — colorful fruits and veggies, fresh eggs and meat, well-tended ornamental plants along with herbs and veggie plants — that’s the main reason to go to a farmers market. But education and the ability to speak directly with producers run a close second. At the Jones Station Farmers Market, education includes beekeeper and honey seller Peter Quinton’s display of what bees do to make honey and Lori Beard spinning wool roving into yarn.     If...

Is your house growing tight around the middle? Consider this alphabet soup as your diet to lean down. Antiques and Art     These have potential value. Search online, include collector clubs.     Ebay may be a sales route and offers research leads.     Antique stores. Call ahead. Building Materials     Donate new, surplus and salvaged supplies and fixtures. Pick-up available.     Community Forklift, Edmonston, 301-...

In 1985, playwright Neil Simon revised his original The Odd Couple for the ladies and called it The (Female) Odd Couple. It’s essentially the same storyline as the original 1968 comedy, but instead of two divorced fellows, there are two divorcees, Olive Madison, a slob and savings-and-loan to her ex-husband; and Florence Unger, a neat-freak whose husband wants a divorce. Plus a cadre of female buddies who gather at Olive’s to play Trivial Pursuit — as well as the Costazuela...