Word: backyarders
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...going to be smart with my money, not going to let what happened to Lassie happen to me. Bitch was so leveraged in oil and real estate in the early '80s that she wound up in a tiny house in some backyard, drooling and eating her own poop...
...painstaking work, to a synchrotron in Japan, only to discover they'd been destroyed in transit. But such disappointments, as well as the increasing difficulty of taking biological samples across security-conscious international borders, are over for Australasian scientists now that they have a latest-generation synchrotron in their backyard. So are the frustrations of traveling to facilities in the U.S. or Europe for a few days of precious beam time, then flying home to wait months for another opportunity...
...They're overwrought about where the polar bears will live if they lose their habitat. They fret about the Earth running out of fossil fuels and about the slow disappearance of the oceans' coral reefs. Sometimes, the worry is closer to home, about the loss of songbirds in the backyard or the fate of the squirrels after a neighborhood park was bulldozed for condominiums...
...pool, I really do feel like a dip in the pool. The first (and only) time my wife and I swam at night, she said, "This is a scene from every slasher movie ever." It seemed so decadent--swimming under the stars in our own wooded backyard--that we half-deserved to be filleted by Freddy Krueger...
...water, chlorine, algicide. Still, the pool seldom has a proper pH: sometimes too much chlorine, sometimes none at all. There are days when I think of my pool as a malign presence that may or may not be full of chemicals, like having Barry Bonds in the backyard...