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	<description>What Rebuilding a 120 Year Old Schoolhouse Taught us About Life, Love, and Lumber</description>
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		<title>How to build a birdhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have I mentioned that I am obsessed with birds? I am. I want them to come live in my garden. Lots of them. So, in true DIY fashion, I decided to make some houses for them to come and live in. It&#8217;s actually super simple. To make a birdhouse you need five pieces: front and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bird Nerd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I still have a day job, I&#8217;m not quite ready for my Big Year &#8211; the quintessential bird watcher&#8217;s epic journey so memorably depicted in the mediocre yet entertaining Steve Martin movie of the same name. But perhaps because I have a day job, on weekends I have found myself becoming endlessly fascinated with birds. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These big wheels gotta roll</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schoolhousekat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, when I was laid up with a broken ankle, I moved our project along by snarfing things off Craigslist and sending Steve out to get them. He returned from one of these trips with a confession: “I also bought some wagon wheels.” Some? “Well, four. They were a really good price and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends and Enemies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schoolhousekat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our garden looks fabulous. It&#8217;s not planned, or tamed, or formal in any way &#8211; it&#8217;s a carnival, a sideshow, a veritable riot of color and texture and things falling over each other and that&#8217;s the way I like it. It&#8217;s also making us a lot of friends: the swallows are gone but we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Birdhouses and Barn Swallows, or, HIRUNDO ERYTHROGASTER Boddaert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started a new job in mid-April and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it but it kicks my butt in the time-for-projects department so here we are, mid-summer, July 4th in fact (happy birthday USA!) and I haven&#8217;t done much for the last few months except work, which is not what this blog is about. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coveted Qualities, or, What Plants Can Teach Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resiliency is the ability to bounce back &#8211; to recover, to persevere, no matter what. It&#8217;s an enviable quality and one we don&#8217;t understand well. Kids grow up in a screwed up family &#8211; one gets tough, the other gets hurt. Couples get divorced &#8211; one partner thrives, while the other flails. A company lays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would Laura do?, or, in which I make a dumb mistake but fix it</title>
		<link>http://russianriverschoolhouse.com/2012/03/24/what-would-laura-do-or-in-which-i-make-a-dumb-mistake-but-fix-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schoolhousekat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Schoolhouse originally had seven tall windows &#8211; three on each side and one in the front. We took out two to create the kitchen so there are five left, curtained in matching blue(ish). The one in the front looks out on the front porch and road and across to our neighbor&#8217;s house directly across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitidoe again, or, in which, for once in my life, I am too subdued, but not for long</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schoolhousekat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am extremely well behaved, thanks to my grandmother, but I’m not quiet. I have lots of ideas and strong opinions and big eyes and my dad’s loud voice and babies love me because I show so much emotion in my face. But when I put the paint I’d chosen on the wall today, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peas will you be my Valentine?</title>
		<link>http://russianriverschoolhouse.com/2012/02/21/peas-will-you-be-my-valentine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schoolhousekat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when I was living in Knoxville, Tennessee, I arrived at the office the Monday after February 14 to be greeted with the friendly question, &#8220;So did y&#8217;all get your peas in this weekend?&#8221; Um &#8211; Peas? In February? Kimmy, our department secretary, whose mother raised bees in a garden so productive people whispered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in wood, part 2, or, please don&#8217;t &#8220;little lady&#8221; your female customers lest they come after you with that wire brush</title>
		<link>http://russianriverschoolhouse.com/2012/02/10/adventures-in-wood-part-2-or-please-dont-little-lady-your-female-customers-lest-they-come-after-you-with-that-wire-brush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schoolhousekat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first memorable &#8220;little lady&#8221; experience was in high school. I already knew how to cook and sew, so when I had to choose a &#8220;practical&#8221; elective I convinced the school to let me take night classes in wood shop and auto shop. Lesson one was changing the oil. I took the cap off the [...]]]></description>
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