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08-06-19, 10:16 AM
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08-06-19, 10:42 AM
#1727
Should Be More Popular
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I am glad we don’t have a HOA. Not that I want to paint my front door pink, but I don’t want someone telling me I can’t.
There is a neighborhood behind us with million dollar 5000+ square feet McMansions. One of our neighbors told me how much she loves how we have fruit trees in our yard. I suggested she could plant a couple in her yard. She said no, the HOA won’t allow it.
That’s messed up IMO.
Speaking of fruit trees, our peaches should be ripe and ready in about 1 week.
for sweet peaches!
There is a neighborhood behind us with million dollar 5000+ square feet McMansions. One of our neighbors told me how much she loves how we have fruit trees in our yard. I suggested she could plant a couple in her yard. She said no, the HOA won’t allow it.
That’s messed up IMO.
Speaking of fruit trees, our peaches should be ripe and ready in about 1 week.
for sweet peaches!
08-06-19, 11:03 AM
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Maybe he was alone because people who know him don't wan to ride with him. Someone should yell at him.
08-06-19, 11:06 AM
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I am glad we don’t have a HOA. Not that I want to paint my front door pink, but I don’t want someone telling me I can’t.
There is a neighborhood behind us with million dollar 5000+ square feet McMansions. One of our neighbors told me how much she loves how we have fruit trees in our yard. I suggested she could plant a couple in her yard. She said no, the HOA won’t allow it.
That’s messed up IMO.
Speaking of fruit trees, our peaches should be ripe and ready in about 1 week. for sweet peaches!
There is a neighborhood behind us with million dollar 5000+ square feet McMansions. One of our neighbors told me how much she loves how we have fruit trees in our yard. I suggested she could plant a couple in her yard. She said no, the HOA won’t allow it.
That’s messed up IMO.
Speaking of fruit trees, our peaches should be ripe and ready in about 1 week.
for sweet peaches!
08-06-19, 11:07 AM
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08-06-19, 11:08 AM
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Ever read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro? It's about a group of children growing up as orphans in a strange and dismal boarding school and it becomes gradually apparent that they're clones being raised to donate organs in a series of harvesting surgeries leading to an early death... Saddest damn book I ever read, but what writing! I'm crying for your car right now. 
08-06-19, 11:10 AM
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08-06-19, 11:10 AM
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08-06-19, 11:11 AM
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08-06-19, 11:14 AM
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08-06-19, 11:16 AM
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08-06-19, 11:19 AM
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08-06-19, 11:22 AM
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08-06-19, 11:29 AM
#1740
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08-06-19, 11:31 AM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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I am glad we don’t have a HOA. Not that I want to paint my front door pink, but I don’t want someone telling me I can’t.
There is a neighborhood behind us with million dollar 5000+ square feet McMansions. One of our neighbors told me how much she loves how we have fruit trees in our yard. I suggested she could plant a couple in her yard. She said no, the HOA won’t allow it.
That’s messed up IMO.
Speaking of fruit trees, our peaches should be ripe and ready in about 1 week. for sweet peaches!
There is a neighborhood behind us with million dollar 5000+ square feet McMansions. One of our neighbors told me how much she loves how we have fruit trees in our yard. I suggested she could plant a couple in her yard. She said no, the HOA won’t allow it.
That’s messed up IMO.
Speaking of fruit trees, our peaches should be ripe and ready in about 1 week.
for sweet peaches!Millions of peaches, peaches for free!
08-06-19, 11:34 AM
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Ha. No worries. I was aware of a twist, but spilling the beans on that isn't going to move the needle too much either way - I think that, like most good sci-fi, the story isn't in the plot devices. The tone seems quite somber, which is something that I really need to be in mood for - prolly why it's still unwatched.
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08-06-19, 11:46 AM
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I've never liked peaches.
08-06-19, 11:49 AM
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Ha. No worries. I was aware of a twist, but spilling the beans on that isn't going to move the needle too much either way - I think that, like most good sci-fi, the story isn't in the plot devices. The tone seems quite somber, which is something that I really need to be in mood for - prolly why it's still unwatched.
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08-06-19, 11:50 AM
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08-06-19, 11:53 AM
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The sci-fi, dystopian future aspect is really just a device for Ishiguro's examination of the idea of growing up with a sure knowledge of coming death. However, I feel especially bad about the spoiler because the way he unfolds that knowledge, through a child's, then an adolescent's, and then a young woman's understanding is amazingly powerful.
08-06-19, 12:07 PM
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08-06-19, 12:08 PM
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Being in Philly, I can get them fresh from New Jersey. There is one orchard near where I like to start rides from. Just never liked them. My grandmother used to take us peach (and pear and apple) picking in PA when we were kids. She would can the peaches and pears and make her own applesauce, which I do like.