I just got a new ratan patio furniture set and I live in arizona so now it is completely blanketed in dust after the big dust storm we just had. Is it ok to hose it all off since it is patio furniture or would that be bad for the ratan?

I went outside today and there were over a million of those helicopter seeds (they’re usually green color than turn brown and have seeds in them, and twirl off trees) all over the place, patio, furniture, lawn, over everything. What’s an easy way to get rid of them while theres tons more to come?

The manager of the apartment complex I am living in left a note on my door saying I have to get rid of the things on my patio. The paper stated I cannot have anything out there except patio furniture and plants. Can they do that?? I have my daughters wagon and recycling out there, whats the big deal? I never read anything in the leasing agreement that said that I can only have patio furniture and plants out there.

Tad said he saw a woman in high heels. Annie climbed the trellis up to the nursery. You can’t scale a wall in high heels! Kendall was hiding behind patio furniture when the killer was shown. It can’t be her either.

I just bought a seven piece used patio furniture set. My question is how to I get the cushions on the chairs to puff up again. Of course from usage they are packed down and don’t have the "puff" look anymore. The cushion design itself is still in great shape, no rips or stains, just lacking in comfort. Any suggestion is appreciated.

I have my eye on a set of patio furniture and it has been "rolled back" 15% already from the original price (still over 0 though). I was wondering if it might get reduced more now that Memorial Day is over and if so what day of the week that typically happens.

I don’t want one liners like "patio furniture", nor crude and sexually explicit jokes. I want a good story with a good punch line. Like the following, but new, a different one. This was my joke from last year.

At a bar, there was one Irishman, already three sheets to the wind, who walked up to another Irishman, who wasn’t feeling any pain either, and said, "Would ye be standing a fellow country man to drink."

"To be sure," says the other, "Let’s drink to old Erin."

They down their shots, which the Bartender refilled.

"Now where in that fair land do ye hail from?

"I’m from the county o’ Cork."

"The divil ye say, I’m from Cork, too!"

And so they drink to Cork and the glasses are refilled.

"And where did ye go to school now?"

"Why I went to St. Mary’s."

"Saints be praised! That’s where I went, too."

So they drink to St. Mary’s and the barkeep refills the shots.

"And what year did ye graduate?"

"That’d be 19 and 62."

"No! If yer not spinning me some blarney, that’s the very year I graduated, too!"

Drink and refill, hooting and hollering, back slapping as I waked in and asked the bartender what the heck was going on.

"Not much," said the Barman, "Just the O’Malley twins getting drunk again."

Recently, actually about 5 years ago, my 20 year old son ripped out our sagging deck. Unfortunately, he never finished the job. Now we have a square section of small gardening stones. It looks horrible. My husband refuses to do anything about it because money is kinda tight. If you have any suggestions, or any ideas of where we could find cheap patio furniture ( like a chaise? ) that would be great!

- Thanks in advance

We are at our wit’s end, perfect dog if not left alone. We have to work/school and he has ruined hot tub cover, broke fences, ate patio furniture, pretty much anything in his sight he destroys. Usually within the 1st hour of being left alone. Don’t know what to do and can’t bare giving him up. PLEASE HELP!

I don’t know how to go about this situation with out sounding completely irresponsible but I just need some opinions.

This past saturday we had a get together at our house. We had a fire pit in the back yard. At one point one of my husband’s "Friends" starting getting rather violent. We asked him to leave. He wouldn’t. He would stand outside our fenced in yard staring at us so at one point we decided to just go inside and forget about him. We left our fire pit with some hot coals on the fire but it was not a raging fire whats so ever just some hot coals. After about 30 minutes we went back outside to smoke a cigarette and our patio chairs were on top of the fire, my daughters plastic toys were on top of the fire pit. It was obvious this person had done this so my husband went after him since he was still in the area just standing there. They got into a fight and the police were called. They were asking questions to my husband to bring about assault charges against him for attacking the guy which, to be honest, I can see why. He should not have gone after him for a fight. BUT the cops never even looked at the back yard and the furniture which was burned and cushions that were melted our fire pit table is black and burnt up.

Where do we stand with this. We want to bring charges against him so he will have to pay for our ruined stuff…. but since there was no police report about the fire we don’t feel we have a case. I kept repeating over and over that he set a fire to our patio furniture but they just kept saying this was an assault call and no mention of the fire

it just boggles my mind that he will get away with this. I know my husband was in the wrong for going after him (my husband got really hurt, broken ribs, broken wrist, etc) and we dont even want to file charges about that BUT the fire is what we want taken care of and our 500 patio set is GONE now.

Where can I go to buy Tropitone Patio Furniture on clearance?

First time staining a deck today and we have some lap lines. We now know the mistakes we made and how to do it right next time, but is there anything we can do to get rid of the lap lines? We have one "square" in particular that looks bad. Would restaining the areas that don’t look bad make it better?

I really don’t want to sand and restain. So if that’s the only option, I’ll be strategically placing our patio furniture, lol!
We used a semi-transparent, oil-based ceder color stain.

Seriously. I was taking my spring/summer patio furniture out of storage the other day and I noticed my bench was still icy from the cold winter. I heard Stafford was great at warming benches and since he is currently out of work I figure he could use the money.

I have a patio on the roof of my condo (4th floor), and I’m buying patio furniture for it – i see that umbrellas are offered in wood and aluminum. Common sense would tell me that aluminum is the better route to go because 1) it’s less expensive and 2) it seems like it has a great ability to bend rather than snap with the wind. Any guidance is appreciated…

I just bought some patio furniture with a glass table top from a garage sale. On the underside of the glass is some kind of solid color, but I can’t figure out what it is, and therefore, figuring out how to remove it. I tried everything I could to remove paint from glass (paint stripper, razor), with no luck, telling me that it must not be paint. Any ideas as to what it is? The edges of this ‘color’ have been chipped away from the edges of the glass, but I can’t seem to scrape anymore off. I really don’t want to have to buy new glass because it seems expensive. Any recommendations?