Sorry, no freebies in the box like your Xmas tree lights -- we tried.

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For the barn owls, cameras were set up in a nest box on an oak tree which fed pictures back to the wooden hide.

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Ron Arons set out to piece together his family's past after discovering a box of documents and a family tree following his parents' deaths.

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Ideally I would like to plant deep beds of greenery clouds of box, ferns, a willow tree and maybe a magnolia, with a glossy black-painted metal bench somewhere.

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When I first began to use it, the box was attached to an old oak tree a bit back from the road.

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Analysts say businesses like Dollar Tree and Dollar General have positioned themselves to draw shoppers from grocery stores and big-box retailers.

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And then there's Sony Pictures Television, which sent out a Joan of Arcadia box that not only played the series' theme song upon opening, but also featured a live tree, which was prominent in the provided episode.

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The rear of the box leaned against a wooden shim, held by an rusty screw, also now partially buried in the tree.

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