Finally, I've fixed up the dismal, spider-infested shed in our backyard so that, even during a blizzard, I can hit balls into a net.
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But if you imagined pony rides in the backyard, that same exact package (no matter how amazing the toy inside really is) is bound to be the biggest disappointment of your young life.
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During a recent trip to Palm Springs, California, he saw a real windmill for the first time -- lofty and majestic -- a far cry from the wobbly, wooden structures that spin in his backyard.
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In the same way that pet dogs went from living in the backyard to living in our beds, brands now have a more intimate place in our lives than ever before.
Henneberry had tied down the covering on the vessel in his backyard so firmly that it had not budged all winter long, not even through this year's blizzards.
Police acknowledged Friday that someone called 911 in 2006 to report that children appeared to be living in tents in a neighbor's backyard.
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Perhaps because of his relatively minor role in al Qaeda, the announcement that Abu Ghaith will face trial in Manhattan has not produced so far any of the "not in my backyard" response we saw when the Obama administration announced in late 2009 that it was planning to put Sheikh Mohammed on trial in Manhattan.
Stephanie Crocker started in 2001 when she and her husband John bought a house that had an old apple tree in the backyard.
In the first case, William Souder, an American journalist, chronicles the jarring tale that unfolded near his own backyard in Minnesota.
Though they were all thrilled to know that Dugard was found alive in the home of her alleged captor, after being held in a series of sheds in his backyard, her discovery has also brought back a flood of feelings that gripped the town in the days, months and years after she went missing.
War in Kosovo has sharpened these, bringing home to Europeans their reliance on the Americans for diplomatic and military might in their own backyard, and the drawbacks of that dependence.
That winter, I even bought a twenty-pound log splitter and would go out in the backyard every morning and split wood until the sweat started steaming from my body like those horses in that Alfred Stieglitz photograph.
As the story continues, we learn that if he had only dug in his own original backyard, he would have encountered acres of the precious stones, and achieved all of the riches he lost his life seeking.
This beautiful little cove that we had is now full of mud and muck and boats, and docks, that are now in the middle of the sludge, instead of where they should be, and actually columns from our neighbor's house that has pretty much been destroyed is now in our backyard.
Ms. Resler grew up in the more urban milieu of Seattle but had a backyard that she describes as the perfect staging ground for a neighborhood water balloon fight.
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To think, just a boatride from Florida, in the backyard of all those U.S. oil giants that have decades of experience drilling the Gulf of Mexico.
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Europe's leaders like to say that the crisis started in America in 2008 and not in their own backyard.
In the backyard, steps from the pool, stands a weathered pillar that's one of the four cornerstones that bound Georgetown when it was formed in 1751.
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Being recognized by the Reputation Institute really shows that our efforts are making a positive impact on people in our own backyard and around the world.
They are no longer so eager to tote a 50-pound pack for a week in the Tetons, nor hoist themselves up icy Mount Rainier in Microsoft's backyard (Al Gore's recent ascent of that peak notwithstanding).
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She also said that there was pressure from communities who do not want affordable housing in their backyard.
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In 2008, authorities said a man in Las Vegas may have accidentally poisoned himself with ricin that he had made from a backyard castor plant.
It turns out that the best way to stop the spread of chickenpox may be right out in your backyard.
OFCs in its backyard, mainly because these tax havens depend so heavily on their big neighbour that they are bound to comply.
It was the starkest warning delivered by a US defence secretary: that America, in the future, may tire of helping out Europe in its own backyard.
My favorite was the guy that took a picture of ice cubes claiming it was golf ball sized hail falling in his backyard.
Or the fact that I was fortunate enough to grow up in a tiny community in Western Maine where the only media I consumed was The Muppet Show on PBS and a backyard that was filled with gnome gardens and mysterious bogs where my grandparents encouraged me to explore and play.
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One neighbor, Nina Samoylicz, said that one night two years ago, she and some friends saw a naked woman in Castro's backyard.
The 6-year-old boy turned out to be hiding in his family's attic when a homemade helium balloon in their backyard somehow sprang loose, floated 50 miles through the skies, and set off a chase that dominated live news coverage for almost three hours.
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