I have been wanting to do a covered area of around part of my pool for sometime now. My backyard is quite small - the pool deck starts at the house and ends at the back fence. This will require me to put my posts on my pool deck. It is a cool deck (I think that's the right kind), it looks kind...

For the past couple of years now of walking my dog around the neighborhood, I can't help but wonder what is this upside down U-shaped tube thing in everybody's yard. It is wrapped sometimes with what looks like a black garbage bag and some are wrapped with a thick tape. What is this thing?...

I am just beginning to read Everyman's Talmud by Abraham Cohen. In his quoting of the TANAC he uses (GEN. R. VIII 13). I understand this to mean Gen 8:13 but when I look at it it does not seem to relate to the context of the discussion. I'm used to reading the King James Version of the Bible. Is...