My yard serves as the hunting ground for whole fleets of praying mantids.
In my yard I grow a type of bearded irises called 'Eternity, ' which puts out violet-scented white flowers not just in spring, like most irises, but again in the fall.
Maybe I can do this in my own back yard, in my own community.
Fifty million dollars is a very common net worth in my back yard, Silicon Valley.
NIMBYism (not in my back yard), which also found expression in California's initiative process.
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How exactly were you planning to trim the 60-foot oak that fell in my back yard, snapping the power lines feeding our neighborhood?
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The joke is that the slogan NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) has been replaced by BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone!
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Meanwhile, my 12-year-old daughter has her left arm in a sling after landing on her shoulder during a touch football game in my front yard.
"I wouldn't sell my front yard for a million dollars, " said Horton, a retired artist who has lived in the same house for 53 years.
There is a great deal of debate over nuclear power, including whether we should use it or not, where plants should be located (NIMBY - not in my back yard is a common theme).
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One of the biggest cities hit Saturday and early Sunday was Wichita, Kansas, where resident Katie Sykes said torrential rains produced a "river in my front yard" and the prospect of a tornado had her shuddering in fear.
Mr. Buffett argues that normal investors should not necessarily be able to find out what professional investors are doing, especially while they are still busy doing it, reminding me a lot of the Not in My Back Yard situation.
Setting up deep-water fish farms in the U.S. would require a hefty budget for defending against lawsuits from NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) activists and competing on-shore and near-shore fish farms, as well as paying an army of lobbyists to fend off opposition from states like Alaska and Maine where fishing fleet interests have considerable political pull.
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"They actually brought my brother to the yard of the hospital and put a ladder against the wall, " Albright remembers.
But my wife, as soon as she had Internet capability, she re-ordered the ring and she put it on my finger in my neighbor's yard, the place I lost it.
At first, I opened my house, garage and back yard to friends so they could come over during their medical rehabilitations and work with my metal fabrication and woodworking tools.
So, as I flew through the air, I stared at the grassy yard and planned my clever descent.
The results will cause any pork lover to swoon, but the prospect of procuring and boning a whole pig and then wrangling it over a fire pit in my small and densely wooded yard seemed beyond impossible in this lifetime.
How could I stay abreast of what was going on in my house if, when the snow came, my every footstep in the yard would leave a trail of incrimination and such clear proof of a prowler on the grounds as to get Diana on the phone to the town police?
In short, I do not want to leave my one third of an acre yard anymore unless it's to go to the local H.
Even though I perpetually forget it, these tasks have a beautiful effect on my immediate world, and I actually really enjoy yard work.
My father banged through the door and into the yard, and, like a pair of long underwear sucked off a clothesline by a tornado, was carried away by the melee.
In my humble opinion the ball was on the 20 yard line when Mr. Laia took over and he struggled for more than 18 months to run it over the goal line to start commercial shipments.
And then, slowly and carefully, I walked through the yard and onto the sidewalk, back to my house.
My plan was to buy a one-bedroom condo, but my dad convinced me that I should at least have a yard and a garage.
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In the last day of classes in my freshman year, I decided to light fireworks in the Harvard yard.
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