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		<title>Yesteryear: Our New Home and Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yesteryear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My maternal grandmother, Iris McFann Woodard, was a gifted historian and storyteller. Part of her legacy was her stories, both written and oral. They were created from her memories, recollections, and snippets of years past. Many of her stories were about simple country life in the Lesage, West Virginia area. &#8220;Remember that our family&#8217;s history [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodridge.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2205571&amp;post=4902&amp;subd=woodridge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adding Foods Into The Pantry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Pantry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frugal, Being Frugal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEOTWAWKI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the economy worsened and our weather patterns affected our garden harvests, we made some homestead changes. Over the past couple of years, we&#8217;ve seen so much financial chaos that we had to face the facts and redefine normalcy. We have seen home values plummet, gas prices rise, insurance costs increase, and the price of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodridge.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2205571&amp;post=4833&amp;subd=woodridge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solving The Funky, Multi-Lobed Tomato Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening: Vegetable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving Seed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomatoes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, we had ourselves a real garden mystery! Two of our tomato seedlings grew to produce mysterious tomatoes. The size and shape of these tomatoes were baffling to me.  The tomatoes didn&#8217;t come from any of the tomato seeds I owned!  I was stumped. I went back over my seed list, my seed orders, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodridge.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2205571&amp;post=4848&amp;subd=woodridge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Old Quilts New Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quilting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sewing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a quilter for more than 30 years and have also collected antique and vintage era quilts and quilt tops for about 20 years. Some of the quilts in my collection date back to the early 1800s. Other quilts in my collection are from the 1940s-1950s. I have collected quilts that show wear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodridge.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2205571&amp;post=4814&amp;subd=woodridge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wintertime Harvest</title>
		<link>http://woodridge.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/wintertime-harvest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening: Annuals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saving Seed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s one garden product that is a sure-fire winner during the Wintertime. If you garden, you are guaranteed to harvest this in January and February&#8230;.. Yes, seed catalogs! Like other gardeners, I get quite the collection of seed catalogs. But by the time the catalogs have arrived, I&#8217;ve already bought new seed I want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodridge.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2205571&amp;post=4795&amp;subd=woodridge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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