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		<title>Meanwhile back at the ranch – A summer of challenge and blessing &#8211; Entry #175</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country living reflections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been nearly two months since I have made an entry on the Timber Butte Homestead blog site but it hasn’t been for lack of things to write about.   This has been such an eventful summer that I found it difficult to put aside the time to document it.   In June our son Brook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hard long ride &#8211; Entry #173</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week during the NW Vineyard conference at our church a man approached me that I had known from years before. He told me he had a vivid dream the night before. He seemed a bit uneasy and unsettled yet resolved to share what he had seen. He told me that in his dream he had seen me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rooster gone bad &#8211; Entry #172</title>
		<link>http://timberbuttehomestead.com/?p=4042</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I passed the chicken coup while walking out to feed the horses.  It was a mild evening and the air was fresh and calm until a ruckus suddenly broke the serenity of the moment.  On the back side of the chicken coup I heard Nancy yelling in anger saying things like, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A celebration of blessing- Entry #171</title>
		<link>http://timberbuttehomestead.com/?p=4023</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country living reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bluegrass]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I built the horse barn I hadn’t dreamt it would one day become the place that we would host a rehearsal dinner party to celebrate the wedding of our son Brook and new daughter Andrea.  Last Friday evening however, over fifty people sat down to eat a wonderful meal together while a live Bluegrass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here is an idea to help organize your garden tools &#8211; Entry #170</title>
		<link>http://timberbuttehomestead.com/?p=4004</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building Projects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Garden tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think everyone who loves to garden ends up accumulating a plethora of various kinds of digging tools.  Spade shovels, flat nose shovels, scoop shovels, rakes, pitch forks, etc. are all a necessity for those of us who spend the warmer months digging in the dirt. What’s really frustrating however is when you need a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality of a changing climate and a changing world – Entry #169</title>
		<link>http://timberbuttehomestead.com/?p=3982</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 03:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people live close to the land and even depend on it for the substance of life they become acutely aware of change.  For years Nancy and I have planted our garden in mid May. Not the frail things like tomatoes and peppers, but the early crops like potatoes and peas.  This year was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All of Creation is Groaning – Entry #168</title>
		<link>http://timberbuttehomestead.com/?p=3973</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One morning recently I casually passed by the television as Nancy my wife was cooking breakfast. She had the Today Show on and Ann Curry was beginning an interview with CEO and Chief Operations Officer of British Petroleum. She was asking him if BP was willing to offer an apology to the American people for the devastating damage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Many hands make light work” – Entry #167</title>
		<link>http://timberbuttehomestead.com/?p=3961</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barn construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[country living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been dreading the thought of painting the interior walls of the barn for months. The thought of cleaning it out masking windows and doors, and spraying some 3000 square feet of walls (walls that are 18 feet tall) overwhelmed me.  By myself I knew the job would take me several days and dozens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second chance bees – Entry #166</title>
		<link>http://timberbuttehomestead.com/?p=3938</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beekeeping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hive collapse syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were heartbroken last March when I discovered that our first colony of honey bees had abandoned their hive.  It had been our first experience raising bees and we had been elated at the plentiful harvest we experienced at the end of a first season.  Our industrious bees had filled two supers with harvestable honey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constructing an all weather garden sink &#8211; Entry #165</title>
		<link>http://timberbuttehomestead.com/?p=3915</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 20:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trobinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy had another idea. She thought it would be handy to have a sink in the garden to prewash vegetables before bringing them into her kitchen. She also thought an outside sink might provide a good place to prewash me before letting me come in the house – considering my reputation for getting filthy after [...]]]></description>
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