1.   At a well-attended community meeting one recent evening, local residents joined San Franciscans with weekend homes in Napa to discuss the petition.

2.   Automakers are encouraging the trend, offering tents, mattresses and coolers that let city dwellers turn their vans, sport utilities and pickup trucks into weekend homes.

3.   Bonnie Hoffman, a sales agent with Mountain Vista Realty, said that even before people began looking for weekend homes in Jim Thorpe, tourism had been growing.

4.   A lot of Texas towns are having their annual holiday parades of homes this weekend.

5.   Aimee Brems said she looked forward to showing her mother her new home this weekend.

6.   But John Chambers just wants to make sure his boy feels welcome on his trip home this weekend.

7.   But John Chambers wants to make sure his boy feels welcome on his trip home this weekend.

8.   Danny Lotz visited her at home every weekend.

9.   Evelyn Jablow, a widely known decorator and furniture designer, died on Sunday at her weekend home in Delhi, N.Y.

10.   Fear of kidnapping and other violence has also kept Galvis and her husband from visiting the weekend home they built outside Bogota.