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		<title>On ice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.&#8221; &#8211; Saigyo Our winter this year has been more about ice than snow, sort of perpetual November. These photos were taken in mid-January after an ice storm that left us without power for a&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://farmhousestories.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/on-ice/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmhousestories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13708982&amp;post=6191&amp;subd=farmhousestories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fixer-upper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Now, all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore, Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter’d, solitary scene; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join To cheer the gloom.&#8221;  &#8211;&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://farmhousestories.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/a-fixer-upper/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmhousestories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13708982&amp;post=6124&amp;subd=farmhousestories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In search of winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. Nature we have always with us, an inexhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://farmhousestories.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/in-search-of-winter/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmhousestories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13708982&amp;post=6095&amp;subd=farmhousestories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepy tree squirrel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” &#8211; Nathaniel Hawthorne It&#8217;s the time of year where you just want to hunker down (or, as the case may be, crawl into a hole) and enjoy the simple pleasures in life &#8211; like sunshine on your face for&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://farmhousestories.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/sleepy-tree-squirrel/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmhousestories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13708982&amp;post=6013&amp;subd=farmhousestories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” &#8211; John Muir There was still the odd Monarch flying about the field during this summer-like autumn weekend, along with the more abundant (and cold-hardy) smaller butterflies, Cabbage Whites and&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://farmhousestories.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/view-from-the-field/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmhousestories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13708982&amp;post=5942&amp;subd=farmhousestories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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