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Dear Tony: We put an offer in on a condo two weeks ago and requested a Form B information certificate.

This month’s heavy rains and strong winds have been more characteristic of November — except for the fair-day intervals when the October sun blossomed forth with a penetrating warmth that will be missing next month.

Dear Helen: After reading one of your columns early in the year, I decided to grow some dahlias from seed. The plants have put on a fine show. Now I’m wondering how to treat them after frost kills off the top growth.

Dear Helen: Are preferred storage conditions the same for onions and potatoes? S.L. Though some of their ideal storage conditions are similar, there are significant differences as well.

Dear Tony: Our strata corporation has changed our rental exemptions and we have lost the right to rent our units, even though the developer told us when we purchased that we would be able to rent for 100 years and there could be no limitation.

Families with food gardens will be celebrating in gleeful gratitude this holiday weekend. The past magical growing season has delivered lavishly bountiful harvests.

Dear Helen: After several years of neatly controlled behaviour in our garden, a hebe suddenly exploded into exaggerated growth this summer. I don’t have the variety name, but the leaves are large and glossy. G.A.

Dear Reena: Is there a simple way to prepare stuffing from scratch using dry bread slices? Miranda Slice one loaf of dry bread pieces into cubes. In a pot, sauté one chopped onion and four chopped stalks celery. Add 1 tsp poultry seasoning.

Clinging like a limpet to a rock outcrop on Salt Spring Island, this traditional looking cottage is bathed in warm sunlight on the outside, but has a surprisingly cool and hip interior.

Every year at this time, a profound urge toward renewal surges through me. Surely this is the rightful beginning of a new year, the natural time for starting over.