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Whether you’re looking to renovate or start from scratch, you can count on us to get the job done to the highest standards Natural Gas ... at a fair price. still your best energy buy. 810 CHESTNUT STREET Brent Wimpee 270-843-4964 Certified Graduate Builder Certified Green Professional CONTENTS DECEMBER 2014 / JANUARY 2015 COVER FEATURE 24 AT HOME 14 AT HOME A Gift that Keeps Giving Contemplating whether to give a puppy as a During last year’s long nights and cold winter Christmas gift. weather, two Bowling Green homeowners stopped wishing for warmer weather and began to plan 16 CURRENTS for it instead. The result: two distinctively different Beautiful and artistic stairways offer architectural backyard spaces. style and drama. 20 ART DEPARTMENTS Welcome to the magnificent world of mosaics. 8 HUMOR Santa takes time out of his busy schedule and offers us an interview. 22 VIEWPOINT Clearing the air about crawlspaces. 12 SPIRIT Rudolph reaches a milestone in television history. 30 DISH Delicious handmade gift ideas for the holidays. 6 • DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY 2015 BG HOME & LIFESTYLE • WWW.BGDAILYNEWS.COM Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle Published and distributed by Bowling Green Daily News 813 College St., Bowling Green, KY 42101 www.bgdailynews.com ___________________ Production Representative 29200 Northwestern Hwy., Ste. 114 Southfield, MI 48034 (248) 546-7070 / FAX (248) 499-1716 ___________________ Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle is published by Bowling Green Daily News. Copyright © 2014 News Publishing, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without permission is prohibited. Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle is a registered trademark of Bowling Green Daily News. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle cannot be responsible for content, opinions, practices or how the information herein is used. All materials submitted, including but not limited to images, logos and text that appear are assumed to be the property of the provider and Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle is not responsible for unintentional copyright infringement. Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle reserves the right to refuse any advertisement. 36 GOOD CHEER Welcome the New Year with ideas that add a festive mood to the celebration. 38 HOMETOWN A front row seat to WKU’s music offering: Lost River Sessions. 30 40 EVENTS Shopping, trimming the tree, and serving those less fortunate, take center stage in the buildup to the holidays. 2213 2213 BB Mt.Mt. VictorVictor LaneLane Bowling Green 46 REFLECTIONS Lisa Lisa CarterCarter David David BuchanonBuchanon When holiday traditions evolve (270)779-6366 (270)779-6366 (270)535-4146 (270)535-4146 into something new. 6 • DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY 2015 BG HOME & LIFESTYLE • WWW.BGDAILYNEWS.COM BG HOME & LIFESTYLE • WWW.BGDAILYNEWS.COM DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY 2015 • 7 HUMOR A Conversation with Santa BY JUDY ZULE Getting an audience with Santa Claus isn’t difficult. After all, a child can do it. But an actual interview is something else entirely. This simple Q&A required a series of phone calls and repeated emails before clinching a moment of Santa’s time. Santa’s schedule becomes crowded with mall visits, parades and preparation for the big night. Apparently, even before Christmas, he chalks up a lot of frequent flyer miles. And somewhere along the trajectory of 24/7 electronic 8 • DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY 2015 BG HOME & LIFESTYLE • WWW.BGDAILYNEWS.COM everything, Santa got hip and hired an agent who insists on sitting in on the interview. Maybe Santa fears the “gotcha” question. And he should, especially from this intrepid reporter. After all, led by a Let my experience get you a team of magical flying reindeer and over SOLD sign in your yard! the course of 24 hours, he delivers toys to millions of children around the world. DEAN WEGLEY Seriously? If this is true, it’s an amazing Broker, CRS, GRI, CNHS story. If not, we’ve been lied to for far too 270-535-2660 cell long. www.deanwegley.net A trick question opens the inquiry: 270-783-4515 BGHL: When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Did you always want to be a Santa? SC: I didn’t grow up wanting to be anything. I am Santa. (He tugs at his beard, which, for the record, remains firmly attached.) Next trick question, in an effort to get him to admit that he’s a retired school bus driver working weekends: BGHL: What do you do for a living in the off-season? SC: There is no off-season. I’m a toymaker. That’s what I do. If nothing else, Santa is determined to carry on a charade, but I’m beginning to think perhaps he really is something—if not magical at least sincere. Obviously, it’s time to double down. BGHL: Santa, there has been a lot of controversy. Who’s your favorite reindeer? Donner? Rudolph? Blitzen? Rather than answer that question outright, he hems and haws about the Santa necessity of a team effort and compares reindeer to offspring wherein parents don’t have favorites. BGHL: OK, then. Besides Rudolph, how do you tell them apart? SC: Don’t you read? (An eye roll for the illiterate journalist.) I “whistle, and shout and call them by name.” How can a jolly old elf act so reasonable and a seasoned reporter appear so inept? It seems that Santa has the upper hand. Fortunately, preparation (read: Google searches) turned up an interesting backstory that probably isn’t even true. F AMILY O WNED A ND O PERATED F OR O VER 52 Y EARS But it will make a great sound bite if the national media picks it up: 832 Broadway • 820 Lovers Lane BGHL: How did you find the flying Bowling Green, KY • 270-843-3111 Kaitlynn K ir by C la rk, K e v in & Ly n n K ir by 8 • DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY 2015 BG HOME & LIFESTYLE • WWW.BGDAILYNEWS.COM BG HOME & LIFESTYLE • WWW.BGDAILYNEWS.COM DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY 2015 • 9 Wishing You A Merry COUNTRY CHRISTM AS Bowling Green, KY 270-843-0506 280 Three Springs Rd (Across from Bob Evans) STORE HOURS: M on-Thurs 9-7 • Fri & Sat 9-8 • Sun 1-5:30 Print Media • 2967 Louisville Rd. reindeer? I read on a blog that you threw Bowling Green Ky 42101 • 270.781.2536 them off a cliff to see which ones could actually take flight. SC: No, no, no. We play reindeer games, and all reindeer can fly. Of course, some reindeer are better fliers than others. And as you know, I keep very careful records. He emphasizes the last three words, and I imagine him mentally searching for the page with my name on it. BGHL: OK, what exactly are reindeer games? SC: Well, there are two kinds. There are times when they play together, and then there are the reindeer cliques. Some reindeer can be a little mischievous. I 2013 - 2014 didn’t like what they did to Rudolph, but it wasn’t until one foggy Christmas Eve that all their teasing came to light. Ho, ho, ho… came to light. Get it? Like Rudolph’s nose? BGHL: Sure, I get it. Which, by the way, Rudolph’s red nose—eggnog? Bourbon? 9 TheSKyPAC.com 9 What’s going on there, Santa? His agent jumps in, which surprises us both because we had forgotten he was 8/1/13 3:23 PM (800) 992-3006 / WWW.SHOPBANDO.COM even listening.