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News & ArtsWednesday, August 10, 2011
Architecture Backyard of the Week
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:17 AM
This one is next to Judkins Park...
There is much rudeness in country people and country life, but there is much beauty in this kind of urban rusticity.
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That's not illegal there? It would be a code violation here. Somebody tell them to buy a fucking lawnmower.
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City people are never rude, you know. Spray-painting property that doesn't belong to you, aggressively demanding money from complete strangers, blasting obnoxious "music" at high decibels...these things never happen in the city.
Oh, hell, Charles, I know you're just trollin'! Keep up the good work. This is what they pay you for, right?
Oh, hell, Charles, I know you're just trollin'! Keep up the good work. This is what they pay you for, right?
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I don't like seeing people vilified inappropriately and/or unnecessarily in the Comments sections, and I do like how you always seem to focus on the Central District (my 'hood, so it's selfish), but you are fucking random, Charles.
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There is something beautiful about certain types of dilapidation when the area is unoccupied. It’s a slice of history fading before one’s eyes. When there are inhabitants, however, it seems like a violation of decency. It’s spooky, anti social, depressed, hopeless, a pain in the ass to live near.
To echo what @ 1 said, get out there with a lawn mower and report to duty, hillbilly.
To echo what @ 1 said, get out there with a lawn mower and report to duty, hillbilly.
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Why do y'all grass cutters think that grass NEEDS to be cut to be appropriate? Grow it, show it.
Fuck "decency"
Fuck "decency"
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Just yesterday, I had been noticing signs for Grass Fed Beef when I drove 256th from Kent East Hill to Covington.
I finally took the plunge and turned up 156th avneue se and found the driveway...a dirt road. It went in about a quarter mile and suddenly I was inside of a cattle farm with a couple of Longhorns looking at me.
I saw a sign for tours and hoped I could just buy some steaks and that was the case...the owner took me into the freezer room and I selected some thick salisbury steak patties and a t-bone.
He said that this was the last working farm on East Hill ... it used to be all farms of this size...its fun to visit and I really did feel like I fell through a time tunnel back to the days before air condos took over.
Here's the place:
http://www.happymountainfarm.com/
I finally took the plunge and turned up 156th avneue se and found the driveway...a dirt road. It went in about a quarter mile and suddenly I was inside of a cattle farm with a couple of Longhorns looking at me.
I saw a sign for tours and hoped I could just buy some steaks and that was the case...the owner took me into the freezer room and I selected some thick salisbury steak patties and a t-bone.
He said that this was the last working farm on East Hill ... it used to be all farms of this size...its fun to visit and I really did feel like I fell through a time tunnel back to the days before air condos took over.
Here's the place:
http://www.happymountainfarm.com/
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When wild rabid animals start living in that grass, we can let them go after Fnarf and all the rest of the grass-growers first. And trim your damned lawn.
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@ 7, It really depends on where it is and what the intention is. There seems to be a growing lack in pride of ownership these days. In Washington that means lots of black mold and rot.
There are some really cool wild yards even in urban or rural neighborhoods. And the sort of fallen, Grapes of Wrath look is timeless. But there is nothing cool about a house that on the outside indicates a hoarder dwelling.
There are some really cool wild yards even in urban or rural neighborhoods. And the sort of fallen, Grapes of Wrath look is timeless. But there is nothing cool about a house that on the outside indicates a hoarder dwelling.
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@9, my lawn is immaculate. Such as it is (about 4x30 feet). The only pests are dandelions, which are impossible to control since I have several near neighbors who refuse to control theirs. The nuisance is minimal.
There are no "wild rabid animals" in Seattle, but there are several million wild creatures living in every yard in the city. Many of them are essential to the functioning of more desirable life. I wouldn't want a garden without hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, spiders, beetles or earthworms. And the human corpses provide nutrients as well.
There are no "wild rabid animals" in Seattle, but there are several million wild creatures living in every yard in the city. Many of them are essential to the functioning of more desirable life. I wouldn't want a garden without hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, spiders, beetles or earthworms. And the human corpses provide nutrients as well.
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Know what, Fnarf? You can mow your lawn and still have all that shit.
And any old dumbshit knows the corpses go in the basement, not the back yard.
And any old dumbshit knows the corpses go in the basement, not the back yard.
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@2 and 3, it's hard to tell, because it's Charles Mudede, but I think he didn't mean rude as in ill-mannered, but rude as in rough and unrefined, which isn't necessarily an insult. Though, again, it's Charles Mudede, who seems to fear the country and wildness (even though we're all just African apes).
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No, Fnarf is right @12, bodies definitely compost much better buried in the yard than they do buried underneath a concrete floor in the basement. Plus, it's much easier to bury them in the yard; constantly having to break up the concrete, dig a hole, cover it over, and then repour the flooring is a total pain-in-the-ass, not to mention much more expensive.
Let the bugs and worms and bacteria do their job, I say...
Let the bugs and worms and bacteria do their job, I say...
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@14, a lot of people will tell you to cover the bodies with quicklime, but that throws your garden soil pH off too far. I say let 'em decompose naturally. If the hole's deep enough there's no smell. Somewhere sunny so you can grow tomatoes!
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@2 and @3, fuck you both. putting Bush in power, thanks to rural types, brought more violence to this world than any hood thug could ever dream of.
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@11,
Having lived in the Central District, I can attest to the existence of hordes of rats in that neighborhood. I bet there's a swarm living in that grass.
@1,
If Seattle has any property owner codes, I'll be damned if anyone enforces them.
Having lived in the Central District, I can attest to the existence of hordes of rats in that neighborhood. I bet there's a swarm living in that grass.
@1,
If Seattle has any property owner codes, I'll be damned if anyone enforces them.
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@20, while your rats are unpleasant (we get them here, too), it is quite unlikely that they are rabid.
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@10- "There seems to be a growing lack in pride of ownership these days."
I'd be proud to own a lawn like that. Not everyone has your taste and priorities.
I'd be proud to own a lawn like that. Not everyone has your taste and priorities.
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@1- How can you claim to care about personal freedom and yet you'd let the government tell someone how long their grass can be?
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I'm all for personal freedom. He has the right to grow his grass long. I have the right to shoot him in the face for it. See? It all works.
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@ 18 - The Supreme Court lives in the rural countryside??
Huh. Learn something new every day, I guess...
Huh. Learn something new every day, I guess...
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@18; love the secret garden pic; there is not nearly enough rat infested wild lands in seattle. besides one could cultivate a wild yard to harbor edible/"medicinal" plants and to limit the rat pop. Are rats really that much worse than starlings and crows?
Also; It seems sooo 2004 to blame bush for stuff. The differences between clinton, bush and O are superficial in light of the impending doom being perpetrated by the shadowy forces behind globalization.
Also; It seems sooo 2004 to blame bush for stuff. The differences between clinton, bush and O are superficial in light of the impending doom being perpetrated by the shadowy forces behind globalization.
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@18
I believe it was the cage lists and the GOP continually disenfranchising potential democrat voters that put Bush in office.
"The day after the election, Human Rights Watch issued a (barely- noted) study reporting that the “decisive” element in the Florida election was the exclusion of 31 percent of African-American men, either in prison or among the more than 400,000 “ex-offenders” permanently disenfranchised. HRW estimates than “more than 200,000 potential black voters [were] excluded from the polls.” Since they overwhelmingly vote Democratic, that “decisively” changed the outcome." facts are a bitch
I believe it was the cage lists and the GOP continually disenfranchising potential democrat voters that put Bush in office.
"The day after the election, Human Rights Watch issued a (barely- noted) study reporting that the “decisive” element in the Florida election was the exclusion of 31 percent of African-American men, either in prison or among the more than 400,000 “ex-offenders” permanently disenfranchised. HRW estimates than “more than 200,000 potential black voters [were] excluded from the polls.” Since they overwhelmingly vote Democratic, that “decisively” changed the outcome." facts are a bitch
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@21,
They're still disgusting, and there's still no comparison with the rats on the North end. Seriously. One night I was sleeping with my second floor bedroom window cracked open and was awakened by the sound of a rat jumping down from the windowsill into my room.
They're still disgusting, and there's still no comparison with the rats on the North end. Seriously. One night I was sleeping with my second floor bedroom window cracked open and was awakened by the sound of a rat jumping down from the windowsill into my room.
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"There is much rudeness in country people..." Wow, what incisive reporting. Maybe Charles needs a positive experience out in the sticks. We don't all F*@k pigs out here you know.
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@18 Charles, don't you think affluent GOPers from SUBURBS all over America had anything to do with George W? I do agree w/you though that he had a violent reign.
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Rural people in flyover states voted heavily for Bush and through the electoral college, their voices are magnified. All it would've taken was for one of those 3 electoral vote states to have switched, but they didn't - they're as red as they come.
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