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For some of us, summertime=yard work. With 4 sons, 3 of them teens, it’s been a long time since I’ve mowed a lawn. But, there’s weeding, and edging, and trimming, and did I mention weeding? Maybe we should forget the grass and go for one of those all rock front lawns.
So, what’s your yard work philosophy?
* Pristine and green.
* What yard?
* Better Homes & Gardens cover-worthy.
* Weeding is my form of Zen meditation.
* Low-maintenance. I share my dandelions with the neighborhood.
* Yard work? That’s what yard care companies are for.
* Other
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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