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Articles in August, 1985 issue of Sunset

• "You used to walk right into the living room" More space, privacy for this San Diego home
• Fresh from the farmer - in urban Sacramento
• Malakoff Diggins … miners "dug" it
• Melon marvels: honeydew soup, cayenne crenshaw, skewered cantaloupe … simple but surprising ways to enjoy the Western bounty at its peak
• Blueberry-white chocolate cake on a cooky crust
• Growing sage for seasoning
• After a "taste test." koalas make themselves at home in San Francisco
• The joys of desert camping
• Painted pipes as platform for plants
• Ex-garages as family rooms, bedrooms
• Broiled avocado salad
• Roll it, fold it, twist it … fila dough
• The easy-to-live-with liriopes
• Palm Springs biking: six trails, great weather
• Bright yarn balls for your tree…with the Japanese craft temari
• The handbook of do-it-yourself materials
• Coconut-chocolate bars
• December menus; sugarplum party for the nutcracker set. A shellfish salad with rice soup. A sugar pie to bake for Christmas breakfast
• Rise and fall of the Monterey pine
• Guided bike tours in Oakland
• Island hopping by ferry in the Northwest. Here are 5 adventures
• In summer, a lemonade stand. In winter, an indoor puppet theater
• Slanting the window for a view of the torrey pine
• Questions about food safety?
• Now it's easier to find the Ojai artists
• Family pop-ups
• Island counter with elbow room for three generations
• Lightweight lattice doors mask the carport
• The crust is oatmeal cooky. The filling is your choice
• Sweet and tart chutney dressing for two salads
• When house plants get salt burn
• Winter tidepooling at San Mateo coast reserve
• "Citizen" races…any cross-country skier can enter. They happen most weekends
• Ask a sushi chef for a gift idea
• Building your own house
• Almost all they did was take out walls
• An olive coat for lamb chops
• Living with holly…the other 11 months of the year
• The caravan is coming to northern California; it's horse-drawn theater, down from Canada. Watch for it now to early October
• Isn't it about time to take the mystery out of mesquite?
• Easy to get deep into these cabinets
• Marinated mushrooms
• August menus: skewered beef goes into pocket bread. Teamwork produces chicken dinner with berry tarts
• Shove the bed away from the wall and let the headboard go to work
• The counter lifts up into a drawing board
• What to bring back from foreign travel
• Tall orders for a small beach house: recapture the view, enlarge, update
• Nacho popcorn … or tomato, Indian, and other flavors you won't find at the Bijou
• Go-with-anything Colombian salsa
• Plant pedestals … easy to make from tubing or plywood
• Up-to-the-minute forecasts on "weather radio."
• Dressy trees in Fresno, December 7 through 15
• Footbeasts
• Building an addition to your home
• Hot buttered drink mix
• Artistry with cookies
• Gifts to get someone started in gardening
• Onions that grow up in the air
• On Angel Island, you see a century of military history
• Colorful, lightweight, any size you want … super-tray
• They squeezed in a tennis court … inconspicuously
• Peanut butter and oats granola snack
• Hot fig tarts for breakfast
• Old Dumbarton takes you out to where fish are
• Yoga classes and retreats
• Stereo and dishes in the buffet
• When should you hire a building inspector?
• They knocked down walls, opened the ceiling, pushed out into the garden
• Red and white wine aperitifs
• He submits potato soup to a baptism of fire by jalapeno chilies
• Six of the West's most-used shrubs … in compact editions
• Short lengths of dowels or moldings make up these wreaths
• Western folk art has its day, all this month in San Jose
• New swim gear…to see better, stay warmer, listen to music. s
• Build your own home for less than $15,000
• Winter potato salad
• Buffalo for your holiday roast? Or antelope, caribou, boar
• Climbing roses: help in selecting varieties, training the canes
• Do you know how you mask a 2.5-pound salmon and why? Let our chef tell you
• Fiddling around Carson City, Nevada - August 23, 24, and 25

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