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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (74047)	9/5/2003 5:32:14 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

I used to love gardening, but we can grow very little here. We have deer, many of them, so everything must either be deer proof (and few plants are) or protected by 6+ foot fencing. Then, we're on bedrock, so I can't really garden. Either I quarry -- dig out a hole in the rock, fill it with dirt, and plant, which I have done for a few trees but is not lot of fun, or we use raised beds, which we do for roses, vegetables, etc. Then we have the salt wind blowing in basically at least part of almost every day during the summer. Not strong, but m most plants don't like salt wind. The most of our property is in native trees, which we like and don't cut down to make garden space. Despite Washington's reputation, we have very little rain in the summer -- we haven't had measurable rainfall since June. Then we have very little water; we're on a well and have to worry constantly about salt water intrusion. We did install a cachement system when we built for water for the garden (not drinking), so we have 2 2,500 gallon tanks which fill up during the winter, which has to last us all summer. So all in all, we tend to pursue other recreations than gardening! I do miss it sometimes. My mother was an avid gardener and we had numerous little garden areas on our property as I was growing up and which I helped with. Then for one five year stretch back East I lived on an old farm property and had a quite large garden. But for the past 25 years, no.

To: Ilaine who wrote (74047)	9/6/2003 12:56:10 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Every time I read a story like this one washingtonpost.com I have two questions. 1. How could a prosecutor have persuaded the jury to convict a man, not once but twice, and persuade them once to send him to death row, when in reality he had nothing to do with the crime? 2. How does the prosecutor in a case like this continue to do his job, knowing that he is responsible for an innocent person spending years in prison and almost being killed? I don't think I could sleep at night and get up in the morning and keep doing that.