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Article: Bowling balls can add a striking element to your garden setting
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 8, 2003
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While conjuring up new ideas for the new season of Weekend
Gardening on the Do It Yourself Network, I became rather preoccupied
with bowling balls. Weird, huh? I've seen them used in a most
appealing garden setting. Unlike glare-producing gazing balls with
their unforgiving fragility, bowling balls are next to cannon balls
in their resistance to damage and weathering.
So your dedicated host and companion have been on a bowling ball
safari at local thrift stores.
I was floored to discover there were no more bowling balls! One
clerk explained that someone had come in the week before and bought
every one of them. "For the garden," she said, so I guess it wasn't a
new idea after all.
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