Getting Deep

Looking At The Man In The Mirror

It would be too easy to see this as an attempt to gain traffic.  An early morning post that is built specifically to grab a few stray Michael Jackson is dead searches… an unfortunate sign of the times.  I hope you do not see it this way.  This site has as much to do with celebs as TMZ have to do with gardening… so if I’m posting something of this nature, you have to understand the weight of this situation… and believe that, if James has put a post up regarding the death of MJ – he must have something to say.

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Spruce Up Your Alley w/ Sunflowers

Our AlleyAround these parts, we have these things called an alley.  Some places we go, people say… A WHAT?  They don’t get it, we try to explain… and it just doesn’t translate.  So we will explain, but forgive us if you have alleys where you are from and we go all third grade on you.

An alley is a road that splits a block of houses in half long ways – so that the garbage man can drive his big garbage truck and pick up the dumpsters of trash.  There are several big dumpsters on each block and you take your trash out to those dumpsters as needed and they are picked up twice a week.  Just imagine (if you don’t have an alley) that instead of putting your trash in trash cans by the street on trash day – you can throw them in a big community dumpster on your block and the trashman takes that instead.

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