FORT WORTH, Texas FORT WORTH, Texas - When summer heats up and the weekly lawn-care chores become exhausting and expensive, the idea easily takes root: "Why not get rid of the grass?"

Q: I have been having a problem with the cabinet under my sink in the main bathroom. It has a terrible odor coming out of it every time I slide open the doors. (The was house built in 1959.) I tried cleaning it with different products, put charcoal in it to absorb the smell, and also one of those atomizers that have a pretty smell, but nothing has worked. Do you have any idea what causes this smell and what I can do about it?

PHILADELPHIA Nicholas Rowan, a 22-year-old from Philadelphia's Mayfair neighborhood, is doing time for violating probation. He doesn't want to tell the world about his original crime, and inside the greenhouse on Philadelphia Prison System grounds in the Northeast, it doesn't really matter.

Pesky mosquitoes can take all the fun out of sitting on the porch. With only two hands, it's tough to sip a summer beverage, turn the pages of a mystery thriller and swat bugs all at once.

Plastic water bottles can get a second use as humane mousetraps with a device called Catch A Mouse.

PHILADELPHIA It's very warm today, well into 80-degree territory. Nonetheless, Victor Allen Crawford 3d is dressed in a pressed linen suit and tie, long-sleeved shirt with French cuffs (and links), polka-dotted pocket square, the whole enchilada.

I have been robbed.

We opened the lids on six eco-friendly paints, the kind made with fewer dangerous chemicals, or at least less likely to emit them.

What to do, what to do.

DETROIT Roger and Edward Maki-Schramm weren't sure about the house on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit when they first saw it four years ago. The house had been subdivided into several apartments years before, and there was plaster damage and other concerns.

Q: What can be done with original art, the kind we buy at a local art fair, when a person grows tired of it and is ready for something else?

Hydrangeas are starting to bloom everywhere across the South and will soon burst with color farther north as summer weather takes hold.

Do-it-yourselfers are made, not born - the successful ones read and follow directions. And the successful how-to book is the one that provides information succinctly, with plenty of clear illustrations, on projects that fit the skill levels of both the experienced and the neophyte.

Q. I have two beds of beautiful dark purple cannas. The leaves are lovely, but they are starting to get the worms that plague them each year. Some of the new leaves are not unrolling. I've followed your advice and cleared away the dead plant each fall, and I try to remove the leaves that are most infected. What else can I do to prevent the damage to my cannas?

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. A former Bluffton, S.C., resident won a reason to move back: HGTV's "Green Home" located just up the road in Tradition Hilton Head, S.C.

EVERMAN, Texas If Louis XIV reappeared and went house-hunting in south Tarrant County, Texas, his search would end the moment he saw this place.

Summer has come to the South.

Generation Y is growing up fast.

Q: We are thinking of putting our government stimulus check toward installation of central air conditioning. Any tips for buying a good one?