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		<title>is it spring yet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First bloom of the year, on the new hellebore. Since I&#8217;m now a parent and find myself saying dorky things like &#8220;Lead on, MacDuff!&#8221; and &#8220;it&#8217;s a doggie-dog world&#8221; on a regular basis, I am going to just come out with it: is this thing on? I think I may have hit a record length [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2012/02/01/is-it-spring-yet/</link>
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		<title>food : dairy-free gluten-free apple pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple pie, round two. Never in a million years, after spending years tweaking the ingredients of my pie crust until I had it just the way I like it, did I expect to be attempting to make pies without flour or butter. Never! Yet, here I am, as it wouldn&#8217;t be autumn without apple pie. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/11/18/food-dairy-free-gluten-free-apple-pie/</link>
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		<title>becoming the parent of a toddler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can hardly believe the sprout is a year old, and yet he&#8217;s definitely turning into a toddler. He&#8217;s been practicing his tantrums, perfecting the art of going boneless and throwing himself onto the ground to sob when frustrated. Not very often, just frequently enough to let you know there&#8217;s no going back to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/10/11/becoming-the-parent-of-a-toddler/</link>
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		<title>one year ago today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One year ago today I was in labor. All day, from contractions that started in earnest at midnight until the sprout was born at 11:58pm. While my water broke on the evening of the 15th, there is no doubt that the 16th is his Day Of Birth. Despite all of the trying and hoping and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/09/16/one-year-ago-today/</link>
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		<title>spring birds in the park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a good spring for seeing birds in our local park. In addition to the pair of Yellow-crowned Night Herons that returns each year, we have two and possibly three pairs of Mallards nesting along the stream. During my morning walks with the sprout, I&#8217;ve seen the usual suspects (Northern Flickers, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/06/09/spring-birds-in-the-park/</link>
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		<title>garden : pleasant surprise!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that our pieris plant may actually be a native! I had just assumed that it was the Japanese variety and hadn&#8217;t even really registered that there is a regional alternative. The other day when we were sitting on the porch I noticed that it was covered in bees of all sorts. So we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/04/12/garden-pleasant-surprise/</link>
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		<title>getting the detergent reek out of thrift store clothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve shopped at thrift stores for myself; since October I have become addicted to thrifting for clothes for the baby. I keep saying I&#8217;m going to stop; what happens instead is that I just become more selective. Now that I&#8217;ve covered the basics, I look for better quality brands and focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/04/12/getting-the-detergent-reek-out-of-thrift-store-clothing/</link>
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		<title>illegal dumping in our local stream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The startling green stream at 5:30pm. Slightly further upstream. Once again, a company upstream dumped a whole bunch of stuff down the storm drains that flowed directly into our stream. This seems to happen every couple of months, which is frustrating (to put it lightly) to those of us working hard in town to clean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/03/31/illegal-dumping-in-our-local-stream/</link>
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		<title>garden : going native</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have vowed that this will be the year we make progress on converting the yard and garden to native plants. This means saying goodbye to the orange daylilies, forsythia, dwarf almond, lilac, and crape myrtle sprout (the large one can stay for now). Wait wait, you might be saying: most of these are popular, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/03/25/garden-going-native/</link>
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		<title>garden : first spring flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purple crocuses. White and purple crocuses. After several years of hoping, my crocus bed is now full of crocuses! It&#8217;s nice to be greeted at the sidewalk steps by perky little flowers when returning from our walks. The daffodils are budding, and we have the first flower along the side of the house. I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2011/03/14/garden-first-spring-flowers/</link>
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