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		<title>garden : resisting the siren call of Monsanto</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2009/07/08/garden-resisting-the-siren-call-of-monsanto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I talk with neighbors about our yard, they are uniformly positive about the way it looks. Which I can understand: we eradicated the pokeweed orchard in the back corner; we cut the vines back out of the trees; we&#8217;ve pruned deadwood and limbed up the border hollies; and we&#8217;ve managed to create relatively weed-free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>garden : rain barrel</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2009/06/27/garden-rain-barrel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freshly installed rain barrel, with rhododendron. I have two overarching goals with regard to our house: (1) to make the entire enterprise of living here more energy efficient and (2) to make the yard and garden more pleasant and usable. Rain barrels address both of these aims to a certain degree, by reducing the amount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>garden : foundation bed, volunteer wildflower, and leaves on the twig</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2009/06/19/garden-foundation-bed-volunteer-wildflower-and-leaves-on-the-twig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The front flower bed, newly planted. The front flower bed, one month later. A month after planting the foundation bed with flowering perennials, we&#8217;re seeing all kinds of growth. It doesn&#8217;t look like a mature flower garden yet, but it&#8217;s showing signs of how it will be when it fills in. When the plants first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>home : green living room</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2009/06/15/home-green-living-room/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our big accomplishment at the end of May was painting the living room. The living room was the last large room on the list to be painted; we&#8217;ve already completed the dining room, family room, and bedroom, as well as two of the three bathrooms. What can I say, after decades of living in whitewashed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>home : faucet-mounted water filter</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2009/06/06/home-faucet-mounted-water-filter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a month after starting to regularly use the Brita pitcher again, I dropped it and it broke. Which is a shame, because it was over ten years old and they just don&#8217;t make them as streamlined or user-friendly anymore. In the course of trying to choose which new pitcher to invest in&#8212;larger with unnecessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>garden : mystery flowers, lily refugees, and stumps</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2009/05/12/garden-mystery-flowers-lily-refugees-and-stumps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White mystery flowers. There are these little white flowers that spring up all over our neighborhood in late spring. For a long time I thought they were spring star flower; now that I&#8217;ve received some ipheion from a neighbor I can see they&#8217;re different. I now believe they are zephyr lilies, however the most commonly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>happy new year!</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2009/01/03/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, all! Welcome to 2009! 2008 was certainly a full and busy year, and I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m sorry to see the backside of it. I&#8217;m looking forward to a more steady 12 months; getting married was great, but I wouldn&#8217;t want to do it again. Ditto with all the traveling we did; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>home log : new toilets</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2008/09/16/home-log-new-toilets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Toto Drake in our snazzy yellow master bathroom. As part of our long-term plan to never go on vacation again, we are slowly fixing up our house. &#8216;Fixing up&#8217; is probably too strong, as the house was fundamentally sound and generally nice-looking and functional when we bought it. It is by no means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>trials and tribulations : resolved!</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2008/08/27/trials-and-tribulations-resolved/</link>
		<comments>http://beingnotdoing.org/2008/08/27/trials-and-tribulations-resolved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This calendar year has been a bit one-thing-after-another and when-it-rains-it-pours, which has led despite my best intentions to quite a bit of kvetching and moaning around our household. I&#8217;m happy to report that our various unfortunate developments have all been resolved quite nicely. Most recently, Carefirst has correctly reprocessed the remainder of my claims and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>trials and tribulations : wet basement</title>
		<link>http://beingnotdoing.org/2008/06/19/trials-and-tribulations-wet-basement/</link>
		<comments>http://beingnotdoing.org/2008/06/19/trials-and-tribulations-wet-basement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rivers running through our basement. The least pleasant discovery about our house has been the amount of water that comes into our basement during heavy rains. Least pleasant both because it makes the basement a dirty dank mold-growing hovel, as well as because it makes it hard to let go of our anger at the [...]]]></description>
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