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egg - 2006-05-07 17:04:17
I am so jealous of your backyard paradise! Someday! Someday I'll be able to move away from the city. So we've just returned from day two of the kite festival, it was very fun and weather was perfect. Not that I'm trying to force you to make your way down here again, but on Sunday, June 4th we're having neighborhood day. The museum opens from 8am-11am free to the public, they'll have special activities and I believe free breakfast (well they did last year) as a special treat they are opening the U505 exhibit and the new special exhibit on Frogs for free that morning. As an added enticement I could throw in tickets to da Vinci as well. That's also the weekend of the 57th Art Fair. Just a suggestion.
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egg - 2006-05-07 17:04:23
I am so jealous of your backyard paradise! Someday! Someday I'll be able to move away from the city. So we've just returned from day two of the kite festival, it was very fun and weather was perfect. Not that I'm trying to force you to make your way down here again, but on Sunday, June 4th we're having neighborhood day. The museum opens from 8am-11am free to the public, they'll have special activities and I believe free breakfast (well they did last year) as a special treat they are opening the U505 exhibit and the new special exhibit on Frogs for free that morning. As an added enticement I could throw in tickets to da Vinci as well. That's also the weekend of the 57th Street Art Fair. Just a suggestion.
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elgan - 2006-05-07 21:05:59
I don�t think I could live in a neighbourhood where what I did with my own yard was so regulated that I couldn�t even grow vegetables. I know of neighbourhoods where clotheslines are forbidden, and yet people complain of the rising cost of electricity and waste of natural resources. Get real people! Looks are not everything!
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Harriet - 2006-05-07 21:22:52
I'm not sure that it was so much about looks as about making sure that people weren't trying to run farms or businesses out of their homes. It has more to do with the concept of community in place when the neighborhood was founded 50-60 years ago. My condo in Chicago had some similarly arcane regulations. I recall one bylaw that forbid me from keeping chickens in my apartment in the heart of downtown Chicago. One would think that such a regulation would be unnecessary. In any case, while there are quite a few association regulations, they are not policed at all. People violate them all the time without penalty, even big ones like building permits. I know of one vegetable garden in a yard, where the garden is visible from quite far away. But because it's beautiful and well-kept, no one has ever bothered them. I'm not sure I'd be so good about it. Also, because of the regulation, there are community plots for vegetables, where you can sign up (for free) for a "Victory Garden"- like plot -- I think most are approximately 12'x12'. They're pretty good sized. We haven't done it because I can hardly handle my own yard and I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to take care of it properly. We do actually have an anti clothesline regulation, but that one I would not hesitate to violate, as I'm sure no one would see it but me. But as it happens, the deck rails work perfectly so there's no need of a line!
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Claudia - 2006-05-08 12:40:12
We don't feed birds but have millions of finches due to sunflowers. If you're are allowed to plant sunflowers (maybe try the shorter varieties) you will have finches - and many other birds - this summer. Plant a few for the racoons, too.
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lemming - 2006-05-08 14:45:33
Would that our students were as clever as the raccoons...
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