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Graduation season is here, so if you’re looking for the perfect gift to help the recent grad in your life get a head start on their new adventure, we’ve rounded up 14 useful gifts

From roughly 1800 to the mid-1830s, the Natchez Trace saw heavy traffic from soldiers, Kaintucks, animals, wagons and more. Stands, or inns, sprang up to serve the travelers, along with ferries, stores and other services. Yet a trip along the heavily used federal road was far from a pleasant stroll. “Hardships of journeying on the Old Trace included heat, mosquitoes, poor food, hard beds (if any), disease, swollen rivers, and sucking swamps,” reads one interpretive sign, noting that “a broken leg or arm could spell death for the lone traveler.”

You and your wife should make a date to take your baby to a park, café, or playground. Sit together and enjoy your child. Tiptoe out into the world in stages, and you’ll encounter parents of young children and other people (like me) who are also fumbling, blinking, and gingerly emerging.

At this point, you can say to her, “I wish you hadn’t told me you were lying about your employment status. You know that’s fraud, right? You’ve created a dilemma for me, and I hope you will do the right thing. If you got caught, it would affect everyone — not just you.”

Carpenter bees are different from other bees in that they work wood by chewing holes, which eventually become tunnels with different chambers in which to lay eggs. The same area is used over a period of years, so look for bees drilling wood or hovering around exposed unfinished wood. The bees prefer unpainted or weathered softwoods, such as redwood, cedar, cypress and pine. Painted or pressure-treated wood is much less susceptible to attack. Common nesting sites tend to be arbors, decks, eaves, window trim, fascia boards, siding, wooden shakes, and outdoor wood furniture.