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	<title>Carleen and Mike &#187; 2004 &#187; March &#187; 06</title>
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		<title>The *Joy* of Home-Owning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Huxley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Me and Carleen have gotten increasingly excited about working in the garden this Spring. Our backyard is wrought with possiblities when it comes to gardening and we have spent a tremendous amount of time discussing those possibilities. Having just come inside from yet another fruitless task outdoors, I can say the mental planning is much [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Me and Carleen have gotten increasingly excited about working in the garden this Spring. Our backyard is wrought with possiblities when it comes to gardening and we have spent a tremendous amount of time discussing those possibilities. Having just come inside from yet another fruitless task outdoors, I can say the mental planning is much more fun than the work. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love the work. When it gets me somewhere, but when you go out to remove a simple bush and soon find out that said bush has the root volume of your average 60 year old OAK TREE&#8211;it kinda gets you down. Instead of having thoughts of where to put the flowers and where to put the vegetables, which trees will become bonsai, and where to build planters&#8211;I&#8217;m railroaded trying to pull out Megalon the Bush From Hell. </p>
<p>Oh and the compost bin is still not completed. So all the trimming and weeding and leaf raking I&#8217;m doing is going right onto the lawn and staying there. </p>
<p>Found several interesting things in &#8220;Off the Cuff&#8221; the other day. Off the Cuff is a section in our local &#8220;waste of a good tree&#8221; newspaper where old people can complain to the masses. Here&#8217;s one complaint about the fairly recent &#8220;Strip Club&#8221; controversy:</p>
<blockquote><p>Praise the Lord and thank you Jesus and thank you city council for passing the ordinance on the adult entertainment club. I would like to see you just ban them completely, but I know that is not ever going to happen. That right there might force them to shut down and save a lot of home life and save a lot of people from being raped including children. Thank you.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ignorance, thy name is Oklahoma. </p>
<p>And  another about &#8220;The Passion of Christ&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>This appears quite an hypocrisy. We have conservative Christians lining up to see an an R rated film &#8220;Passion.&#8221; The film by Mel Gibson is borderline indecent in its portrayal of cruelty upon the body of Christ. Why would people consider something like that worthy of their time?</p></blockquote>
<p><em>indecent in its portrayal of cruelty upon the body of Christ.</em> Folks, they didn&#8217;t beat Christ to death with (as my friend Bill said) &#8220;a wet noodle&#8221;. Come on. The period that Christ lived in was violent violent violent. And Christ pissed off a lot of people. What did you think? Maybe they sent nuns out to give Jesus a good whack on the wrist with a ruler? Besides, I don&#8217;t know exactly what faith Mel Gibson is, but apparently it&#8217;s very fundamental Catholic, as in, the word of the Bible is THE word. So if his movie is wrong, I guess the Bible&#8217;s wrong too, huh? Tough pill to swallow, ain&#8217;t it you crazy psycho religious freaks. </p>
<p>In other household news, Chani may be getting a sibling sometime in the near future. We have decided that Chani probably has some form of ADD so we&#8217;ve decided to get another dog, since the time we spend with her (which is, I&#8217;d say, quite considerable) is just not enough for her. She&#8217;s lonely, we can tell. So basically we&#8217;re looking for something about her size (a beagle), about her age (almost 1 year old) and probably male. No terriers, and no yappy, fru-fru toy dogs. That&#8217;s pretty much it. Carleen is in Tulsa now at her class and during her break she&#8217;s going to PetSmart to take a look at the dogs they have for adoption.</p>
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