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This is the first summer of commute gardens: two rented plots in public gardens 3 and 30 miles from my home, respectively. It’s also the first time I have actively looked into eating weeds — things I never thought I would grow so successfully. I fully intended to work in each garden on alternating days, to harvest lettuce several times over, to max out those plots with rotation-succession-(trans)plantings, to cultivate two well-managed food gardens so well, family members and then neighbors w0uld be pressed to accept bags of vibrantly colored lettuce, exotic tomatoes, basil, heirloom squashes, and nasturtium (“Yes, yes, they are so beautiful, and you can eat them, too.”). All this without buying tools or soil improvements; all this on the cheap and outright fanatically organic, and, I hoped, mostly by bicycle.
In my springtime of enthusiasm, it was going to be as easy as getting up every morning at 5.
Yeah. Exactly.
Yes, at first, I did get up early, but probably not that early, and definitely not that regularly, and my old bike’s tires are pumped up, but to essentially no avail — I’ve used it twice to get to the nearer garden. Lettuce I have harvested — big bags of it, fresh and colorful and only lately bitter — and pushed on family members, and I might get one more round in, but first I’ll have to tug out the remaining old plants and find a rabbit warren to feed, or just accept the idea that it’s worm food.
Where did I trip up in putting plan into action? Well. At the end of the long winter I suppose I was drinking more coffee than was wise or productive, which, for me, results in a sort of cruel catch-22: a clarion call to action (“Carpe diem! Move, move, move!”) coupled with an almost paralytic level of indecision. What’s more, since I have never had this much garden to deal with, I completely underestimated the amount of time it would take to really thrive. What was initially planned to be 20 minutes a day in the garden, at dawn, soon turned into 2 hour weeding marathons, once a week, whenever the Hell I could wedge it in. Once the weeds really took hold — some time in June — I lost all chance of maintaining “the land” with just a little bit every day.
In sum: the gardens are growing, but I have relinquished a lot of that control I aimed for earlier in the year. What’s been soothing, however, is the container garden on the balcony. For every five plants I have neglected in the community plots, there is one green, good-looking hot-pepper plant growing in a carefully converted watering can. I’ve put a lot of creative juice into this garden that only grows enough food for snacking. But, ultimately, it has been the most satisfying garden because, every day, I look out at it (or up at it, from the road or the yard) and know that I can bend it to my will in a matter of minutes — that I am still an O.K. gardener. Here I can actually notice and dispatch of bugs, shift plants around to suit them, and satisfy some oddball whims like birch bark planters and peanut shell potting mix.
And — and, and, and — this is the garden in which I hide quietly at the end of the day, when there’s nothing left to do there but enjoy it.
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I just love this site! I love learning new ways to do things and i love the way you write about it. Had to smile about the weeds. I live in Florida and the easiest thing to grow is weeds.. I now mulch with a straw that does not contain weeds…..one year i tried hay and all i got was weeds. I also started out with a small area, and it did so well i decided to double my area and nothing did well because it was too big for me to manage. I will be back to keep up with you and your garden, how wonderful for your , i believe you said, little girl to be able to grow up helping her mother, something wonderful to share.
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lauded the Occupy movement for “awakening the country’s conscience,” but he said that after 56 days, the encampments that flank the two grassy areas adjacent to City Hall must be removed by 12:01 a.m. Monday for public health and safety reasons.
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Across the country on Thursday and Friday, there were signs that tensions had ratcheted up a notch or two, with violence resulting in several instances.
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Speaking to The Associated Press by Skype from Jefferson City, Mo., Sweeney said the evening of Nov. 20 started peacefully in Cairo, with Tahrir Square “abuzz with ideas of democracy and freedom.”
The three wandered the streets and wound up in a large group of protesters outside the Interior Ministory, Sweeney said. The demonstrations escalated, with the protesters yelling and perhaps throwing stones, he said.
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Currently, only industrial countries have legally binding emissions targets under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Those commitments expire next year, but they will be extended for another five years under the accord adopted Sunday.
The proposed Durban Platform offered answers to problems that have bedeviled global warming negotiations for years about sharing the responsibility for controlling carbon emissions and helping the world’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable nations cope with changing forces of nature.
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The debate ran past midnight and grew increasingly tense as speakers lined up almost evenly on one side or the other. Conference president Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who is South Africa’s foreign minister, called a recess and told the EU and Indian delegates to put their heads together and come up with a compromise formula.
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Other contenders sought to stand out.
Bachmann referred to the former speaker and the one-time Massachusetts governor as “Newt-Romney,” saying the two men hold similar views on health care, illegal immigration, cap-and-trade legislation and the payroll tax cut extension.
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The Stoxx Europe 600 Index added 0.3 percent to 236.66 at 10:39 a.m. in London, having earlier risen as much as 0.6 percent and fallen as much as 0.4 percent. The gauge has still declined 14 percent this year amid concern the euro area’s debt crisis will derail the global economic recovery. Standard & Poor’s 500 Index futures expiring in March climbed 0.4 percent, while the MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 1.1 percent as a report showed that Chinese housing sales slumped.
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She says she doesn’t even see the point of introducing the kind of restrictive law proposed by the federal agency.
On Tuesday, the NTSB said texting, emailing or chatting on a cellphone, even hands-free devices, while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed, and urged a total ban except for emergencies.
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“They call en route to service projects, or when they get lost or coordinate with customers,” Nelson said. “It’s a vital feature to do your job.”
The State Patrol says that, from January to Nov. 30 of this year, it has issued 656 tickets to drivers who were texting, and, in that same period, issued 6,925 tickets for talking on a cellphone while holding it to the ear. The fine is $124 for either infraction.
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When using a cellphone for texting or calling, Strayer says, “the brain becomes overloaded.”
So he supports the NTSB recommendation for banning all cellphone use, especially in light of survey figures showing that about two of every 10 American drivers overall — and half of drivers between 21 and 24 — say they’ve thumbed messages or emailed from the driver’s seat.
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly one in every 100 car drivers was texting, emailing, surfing the Web or otherwise using a handheld electronic device. That’s up 50 percent from last year.
And, as Strayer notes, you now can set your car up to watch Netflix and drive at the same time.
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It was the board’s strongest recommendation to date on a topic that divides policy makers and the public. Just last week, another federal agency released survey findings that most people support bans on phone use and texting while driving, but they also could think of few situations in which they themselves wouldn’t use their cell phone or text while operating a vehicle.
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“You know how many people I have to blow my horn at every day?” said Detroiter Omar Elliott, 31, when asked about people he sees texting while driving. Yet he still thinks it would be unfair to ban it — and he’s not sure a new law would do much.
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Last year, Michigan enacted a texting-while-driving ban, making it one of the 35 states to do so. But calls for a broader prohibition on phone use while driving was rejected. The Governors Highway Safety Association, a coalition of state safety officials, said nine states and the District of Columbia prohibit drivers from using handheld cell phones. No state bans the use of all handheld and hands-free devices.
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Shirley Mansfield, 25, of Madison Heights, a trust analyst for Comerica Bank, said she sees drivers swerving and nearly crashing every day because they can’t put their cell phones down.
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On Friday, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol becomes the first big-studio feature to premiere on IMAX. The film hits 300 of the special screens five days before its nationwide release Dec. 21 on standard 35-mm and digital screens.
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Paul Heinbecker, a top diplomat who helped negotiate Canada’s accession to the protocol, said that Canada should have stayed in Kyoto and helped negotiate a new deal.
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Histories and legacies aren’t rewritten overnight, but after acquiring Paul, the Clippers think they may have done just that.
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