But then there's also mornings or nights where I sit in my backyard, and I love my house.
My passion for the vertical world took me from tall trees in my backyard to climbing steep cliffs and crags.
Much of the delay in getting new lines built has been due to "not in my backyard" opposition at the state and local levels.
When planning new power lines, utilities routinely run into "not in my backyard" complaints for consumers, which can tie up the construction of new power lines for years.
In my next dispatch from my backyard Eden, I will discuss coping strategies for when Hurricane Sandy deposits 14 cubic tons of sea salt on your perennials and 50-year-old ornamental cedars.
Once such installation has come to my backyard.
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For this reason, my backyard is a bit of a smoky fantasy: I have a Weber gas grill I love, a large smoker for doing authentic slow cooked barbecue, and a large homemade Argentinean parillada grill for traditional open wood fire cooking, as well as authentic Santa Maria-style barbecue.
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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.
Power lies with the boroughs, and residents tend to be of the not-in-my-backyard persuasion.
But this weekend, in my figurative backyard of Atlanta, there are some actual, legitimate big-time festivities happening.
"It doesn't make me feel nervous fighting in my own backyard, fighting just down the road from your house is nice, " says Cook.
And if someone had the notion to try to do so, the not-in-my-backyard outcry and regulatory steeplechase required would hold up a project for years.
In other words, this restaurant, older than the United States, has technological underpinnings as sophisticated as any retailer in my own Silicon Valley backyard.
"To the people, you know we came to the backyard of one of my opponents ... and the people of Michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates, and all I have to say is, I love you back, " Santorum said in remarks at his campaign night party on the western side of Michigan.
Sometimes we watch them on our Internet-connected TV, but I also watch them on my laptop when traveling or when I want to sit in the backyard.
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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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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.
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