| Sometimes it seems that civilization has
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| | it the same day. Observing this fiasco
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| arrived too soon. Time
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| | was my Grandma who snidely
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| saving devices often don't and quick fix
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| | suggested I use the paring knife she
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| solutions frequently aren't.
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| | gave us twenty years ago.
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| The US Government spent hundreds of
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| | She was right.Did you ever succumb to
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| thousands of dollars
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| | the siren song of the seed catalogs and
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| developing a pen that would write in
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| | the pictures on the seed packets at the
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| space. The Russians used a
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| | store? When you total up
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| pencil. Recently I bought a fancy leaf
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| | the cost of seed, fertilizer, chicken
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| blower/vacuum for the
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| | wire fencing, tools and bribery
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| patio. Soon my hands smelled like
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| | money to your kids for weeding, the
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| gasoline, I no longer can fit my
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| | figure is staggering. On the
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| car in the garage and the cat has a
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| | other hand, twelve large tomatoes, ten
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| permanent noise hang-up. So I
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| | green peppers, ten pounds
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| sold it to my neighbor for $50.00 (Orig.
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| | of onions and a large bag of green beans
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| $300.) and bought a
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| | cost only $30.00. No
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| broom. It works fine.The indoor vacuum
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| | waste, no digging, no bugs, and no
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| came with a hard floor attachment that
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| | garden. I know you can't buy
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| requires an MIT engineer to hook up.
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| | time, but it certainly is easy to waste
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| Swirls of foam spewed
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| | it.One flower packet caught my uneducated
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| forth like a Niagara, mixing with the
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| | eye. It promised dozens of
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| cat hairs, dust balls and
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| | beautiful pink daisy-like flowers
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| spilled food. It took me two hours to
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| | without the hassle of planting the seeds
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| take it apart, clean it, and
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| | indoors in March, transplanting them
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| re-install it on the garage shelf where
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| | three times in progressively larger
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| it belongs. Then I put a rag
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| | pots and transferring them to the garden
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| on a stick and cleaned up in ten
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| | in June. Just throw the seeds
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| minutes. The floor looks great
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| | on the ground and wait for the flowers.
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| and I get to use the rag over and over -
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| | They were called cosmos and
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| for free.One day my wife couldn't resist
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| | all the information on the packet was
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| buying a food chopper for
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| | true. Just to give them an added
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| $29.95. The pictures show mounds of
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| | edge, I did plant them in April and
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| colorful vegetables
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| | transferred the seedlings to small pots
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| chopped and ready for cooking. Trying it
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| | in May. By June, I was giving four
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| out for the first time,an onion
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| | plants a week away to friends but no
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| disappeared into its maw, and was
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| | flowers appeared on the stems. By July,
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| quickly reduced
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| | the plants had grown to three feet
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| to a mass of gooey sludge with a ragged
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| | tall but no signs of blooms. Some of my
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| ball in the middle. Next,
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| | victims thought it was a joke and
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| a potato magically turned into liquid
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| | threw them away, others stuck in there,
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| followed by an apple laced with
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| | watering and fertilizing and hoping.
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| inedible seeds and mangled peel.After
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| | Eventually, some of the plants reached a
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| one cut on a finger of each hand ( I
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| | height of seven feet, taking over
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| swear I only touched the
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| | the whole garden with a forest of stalks
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| blade lightly), I somehow got it into
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| | Jack would have been proud of.
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| the original box and returned
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| | The flowers were magnificent.
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