Word: backyarders
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...sits in a bamboo chair on a small patio next to a carp pond. This is his retreat, a small backyard behind his remodeled house where he can listen to the babbling waterfall and relax beneath giant spider lilies. He concedes that as a boy he never dreamed of living in this sort of luxury...
...latest personal technology triumph is the Slinger, which I bought at sitstay.com for $34.95. This overgrown slingshot fires tennis balls 150 ft. up a hill in my backyard--the perfect distance for my young brown hound Otto, who is an utter maniac for retrieving stuff. The Slinger is nearly perfect in every respect. It even has what I think of as a "wife feature": it lets my spouse scoop slimy, post-retrieved balls into a built-in wire rack without having to sully her ivory hands...
...bright but cool in the backyard of the Duck Pond preschool in Oakland, Calif.--perfect climbing weather. So Chloe Fillinger pulled herself to the top of the play structure, where she reached for the fire fighter's pole, her three-year-old body poised for a fast ride to the bottom. Her hand flailed in empty space. "Cynthia!" she called to her teacher. "The pole is gone...
It’s like the University took some old toys they were keeping in the backyard, wrapped them up in paper and string and presented them to PSLM as Christmas presents. Then they unwrapped them in front of all of us on Tuesday, ooh-ing and ahh-ing until we were convinced they got exactly what they wanted...
...which must approve many of the panel's ideas, are relishing the opportunity to brand Bush as an environmental rogue. Beyond that, there's the NIMBY problem. California might be going dark, but would Republicans living in Santa Barbara approve a new coal-burning or nuclear plant in their backyard? Would anyone...