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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (Happy Thanksgiving!) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Still working on the cushion covers from hell.  I&#39;ve made almost all of the mistakes it is possible to make on these covers.  I feel like I&#39;ve spent
more time ripping seams than sewing them.  I also have a lot of work to do to get ready for Thanksgiving.  We&#39;re going to spend the day with family.
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Still getting grape tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and New Zealand spinach from the garden, and the new lettuce is almost big enough to start using it.  I hope
we don&#39;t... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:09:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ check out my songs! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgVD3ZnOLU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgVD3ZnOLU</a>
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sort of grassroots, acoustic based stuff.  adding demos as I go, always looking for a vocalist and/or collaborater in s. florida ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:08:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (11/15 - 11/21) ]]></title>
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I&#39;ve been working full time on some new covers for our couch cushions the last few days.  I thought it would be a fairly quick and easy job, but I
didn&#39;t figure in the time it would take to take apart the old ones to use as patterns.  Ah well.  It&#39;ll be great when they&#39;re finished anyway. 
Another day or two on that job and then on to other things.
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Less than two weeks till Thanksgiving now.  How did that happen?
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I haven&#39;t had time to work... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:17:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (11/8/09 - 11/14/09  late again) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Very busy trying to get the house ready for the holidays.  The biggest job right now is making new covers for the couch cushions.  The living room will look a
lot better when that&#39;s done.  It&#39;s a bigger job than I thought it would be, mostly because I&#39;m using the old covers as patterns, and all of the
seam ripping and stuff is taking a lot of time.  I think it&#39;ll be really nice when it&#39;s done, though, because right now, the couch cover is always
getting shifted out of... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:08:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Beginner's Advice ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ So I just bought my very first guitar (!!!) and have started playing around with it (i.e. learning random chords from easy songs).  I want to become more
familiar with the fretboard and notes, so I can really know my guitar and have more freedom/flexibility in playing.  What are your suggestions for learning? 
Are there certain steps I should follow or got any tips to make this process smoother?
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A little background info: I&#39;m totally new to playing the guitar, so I have no... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (11/1 - 11/7) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
November already.  More working on the house this week, and getting things ready for holiday gatherings and guests.  I hope to have a webpage built for the
Cristmas/ holiday project this week, also.  If I don&#39;t, I&#39;ll at least get the stuff I have so far (from Shakey) online so people can listen to it.  I
feel very selfish in being the only one who has heard them so far (among those here in the TTT who aren&#39;t Shakey).
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The warm weather&#39;s still holding out... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:42:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Christmas/Holiday project 2009 ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
So far, four people have expressed possible interest in this year&#39;s project.  Maggie, Shakey, Arch, and me.
<br>
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Arch and I haven&#39;t decided what we&#39;ll be doing together yet, or whether or not either of us will do anything solo.  We&#39;re still working on that.
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:26:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (10/25 - 10/31) ]]></title>
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Arch is going to be home for Halloween for the first time since we&#39;ve lived in this neighborhood.  I think that&#39;s going to be fun.  I think it will be
the first time we will have given out treats together on Halloween.
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I&#39;m going to start a thread for discussion about this year&#39;s Christmas/Holiday project.  Hopefully we will have some discussion about it there also.
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The peppers are still going strong, as are the eggplants, New Zealand spinach,... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:24:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (10/18 - 10/24) ]]></title>
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I&#39;ve got the heat on for the first time this fall.  It&#39;s nice and cozy inside, which is nice.  I need to start putting some plastic protective covers
over the garden beds soon, I guess.  I think the tomatoes are a lost cause because bugs are doing too much damage to those that remain.  I&#39;ll probably pull
them up this coming week and plant other things in that bed.
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I haven&#39;t seen very many anoles this fall, which is kind of strange, but I&#39;ve seen a few... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:03:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (10/11 - 10/17)  Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
Arch and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary yesterday.  It&#39;s actually today, but for logistical reasons, we had to do it yesterday.  We had a lovely
day.
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The tomato plants are still producing a lot of tomatoes, but the bugs want to eat them.  The plants all fell over while I was on the road this past summer, and
I couldn&#39;t prop them back up without hurting them, so the tomatoes are all lying on the ground (or most of them are, anyway), and the bugs seem to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:02:14 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Happy Anniversary! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Thank you my honey for my happiest 7 years!! ....  so far.... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:31:48 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (10/4 - 10/10) ]]></title>
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I got a new sewing machine a couple of weeks ago.  It doesn&#39;t have a lot of bells and whistles, but it&#39;s a real workhorse.  Most sewing machines are
flimsy and not very powerful.  This one&#39;s like the Volvo of sewing machines.  I was hemming some of Arch&#39;s pants yesterday and that machine just plowed
right through the rolled seams like they were hardly there.  That&#39;s a great machine.  I&#39;m looking forward to hemming some blue jeans with that puppy.  
<img... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:22:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (9/27 - 10/3) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
We&#39;ve been having a lot of rain the past few days, and the garden&#39;s loving it.  I had a couple of soaker hoses in the garden earlier in the summer, and
they both developed holes in them that caused me to waste a lot of water before I found them (I was afraid the water bill might be a b*tch, but it wasn&#39;t
as bad as I feared).  I stopped using them after that, but the garden didn&#39;t do anywhere near as well afterwards, so I&#39;ve gotten some new soaker hoses
and this time... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:06:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (9/21 - 9/26) ]]></title>
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Lettuce, chard, and green onions are all planted, but a neighborhood cat has dug up part of one of the lettuce rows (I think probably using it as a litter
box), so I&#39;ll have to replant that part.  One of the rows of lettuce is up and some of the chard.  I might have to replant some of the chard.  It seems to
be coming up a bit sparsely.  Too soon to tell how the onions are going to do.
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More work on the house and bookkeeping this week.  And the garden and shed.  The... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (9/13 - 9/19) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
The garden was a bit rough when I got home from being on the road, and I figured the tomatoes were done for the season, but I gave them some tomato food and
water, and they&#39;ve got lots of blossoms on them now.  The peppers are producing like crazy.  I still have a lot of planting left to do, but things are
coming along.
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The days are starting to cool off a bit now.  I love the weather this time of year (except for hurricanes and tornados).  Not much else to report here... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:50:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As promised, here it is! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hey guys and gals! First off, sorry I haven&#39;t been around much, but I&#39;ve been mad busy. In the last 5 months I&#39;ve been designing/working on this as
well as teaching myself to play piano, on top of everything else I have to do every day.
<br>
Anyway, some of you expressed interest in a build thread when I began to build my first guitar from scratch, so here goes. Before we start, though, I need to
say a couple of things. Firstly, I don&#39;t have a lot of power tools, so there will... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:26:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (9/6 - 9/12) ]]></title>
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I&#39;ve been finding a lot of tiny baby anoles in the garden and on the porch and outside of the house lately.  I have to be careful not to hurt them
accidentally because they&#39;re so small.  I&#39;ve planted a whole bed of chard and one row of lettuce so far for the fall garden.  I still have a lot of
planting to do.  The weather&#39;s been really pleasant lately, and we&#39;ve had a lot of rain this summer.  I&#39;m very thankful for that.
<br>
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Still scrambling to get... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:22:11 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (8/31 - 9/5) ]]></title>
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Wow.  September already.  How did that happen?
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I&#39;m all done being on the road.  At least for this year.  Now I can start getting caught up with the work I have to do around here.  I&#39;m sooooooo far
behind.  The garden&#39;s a mess, and so is the house.  An unbelievable number of tomatoes just rotted on the vine while we were out of town, which is sad to
me.  I&#39;m going to plant some new tomato plants and try to get a good fall crop.  I&#39;m also going to try to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:08:13 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thread of the week (8/16 - 8/22) ]]></title>
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Tons of produce coming out of the garden right now, and I haven&#39;t been around much to do anything with it, unfortunately.  It&#39;s almost time to plant
the last of the summer veggies and start the fall veggies.  Hopefully I&#39;ll have time to start that next week.
<br>
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Hurricane Bill looks like it could be nasty (category 3 or above by Wednesday).  So far, I can&#39;t see where it&#39;s likely to make landfall, but at this
time it doesn&#39;t look like it&#39;s headed... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:27:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Another one for the animal lovers... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk&amp;NR=1&amp;feature=fvwp">http://www.youtube.com/wa...mp;NR=1&amp;feature=fvwp</a>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hllqpstavoc&amp;NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hllqpstavoc&amp;NR=1</a>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_SjngmnO8&amp;feature=channel">http://www.youtube.com/wa...mnO8&amp;feature=channel</a>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:38:36 GMT</pubDate>
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