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	<description>high hopes gardens is a living experiment. Can a creative, hard-working family make a living working with nature? Join us on the journey from idea to practice as we revive an Iowa Farmstead.</description>
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		<title>May 13, 2008 - Queueing Up the Next Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hired out siding the 3rd story east and west dormers and while the guys were here, I had them frame up a new exterior wall for the old machine shed.

Last year I reroofed about half the building, but the half that is over me in the photo is beyond repair - so the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 11, 2008 - Finished in 18 Months!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The attic remodel is now complete - it was a long, slow project, about as long as two pregnancies, but it is now nearly ready to accept furniture! We just have some touch-up painting, another coat of floor paint, and some insulating in the storage areas behind the bookshelves.

This is how it looked after we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/11/may-11-2008-finished-in-18-months/</link>
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		<title>May 10, 2008 - Glorious Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve reached a spring day worth living!  Most of the fruit trees are in full bloom, the weather is beautiful, and it was dry enough to get some onions in the ground today.

The pinks and whites of the emerging apple blossoms are hard to beat.

Of course, the shy little violets tucked under the apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/10/may-10-2008-glorious-spring/</link>
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		<title>May 9, 2008 - Aspargus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s aspargus season!

Our favorite way to cook aspargus is to wipe it with a bit of olive oil and throw it on the grill.  We&#8217;re still about 3 weeks away from getting tired of eating it.  Aspargus is a reliable bit of the spring plate that gives the first major relief of from frozen and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/09/may-9-2008-aspargus/</link>
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		<title>May 8, 2008 - Thingamajig Thursday #117</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s &#8220;Thingamajig&#8221; entry.
Also check out the last thingamajig answer. Put your guess in a comment below.

As always, put your guess in a comment below.
Hold mouse over this sentence to pop-up answer. 
one year ago&#8230;&#8221;Keeping the Chicks Hot&#8221;
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		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/08/may-8-2008-thingamajig-thursday-117/</link>
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		<title>May 7, 2008 - Shiitakes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we found that the mushroom logs we had &#8220;planted&#8221; with shiitake mushroom spawn decided this wet spring was a good time to pop.  Earlier we showed the process to innoculate the logs by drilling plug spawns into logs.

Here&#8217;s a couple growing on a log.

Finally, here are a few in the kitchen on the cutting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/07/may-7-2008-shiitakes/</link>
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		<title>May 6, 2008 - Out with the Old, In with the New</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late last fall the old electric fence charger gave up the ghost.  I didn&#8217;t go to great lengths to investigate why it stopped working as it looks as though it dates to only a few years after the invention of the incandescent light bulb. 

I didn&#8217;t go to great lengths to investigate why it stopped working as it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/06/may-6-2008-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new/</link>
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		<title>May 5, 2008 - Fruit Tree Blossoms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first fruit trees, mainly the plums and apricots are in full blooming regalia.  
The scents catch you in unexpected places and gently remind yo to notice the wind direction and sweetness of the season.

I&#8217;m cheating here by putting this picture from May 6 in today.  Just after sunset a big line of storms moved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/05/may-5-2008-fruit-tree-blossoms/</link>
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		<title>May 4, 2008 - Finally Something in Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, the potatoes that sometimes get planted in March, most times get planted in April, this year didn&#8217;t hit the ground until May.  The wet, cold spring is delaying all planting.

Potato planting is greatly simplified with the trencher attachment on the tractor.  Linda also got small amount of the usual early season crops such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/04/may-4-2008-finally-something-in-garden/</link>
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		<title>May 3, 2008 - All Work and No Play Make Mark a Dull Boy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linda and I snuck away from the farm for 20 hours this weekend to Iowa City.  We had tickets to see Steve Earle and Allison Moorer, a couple of acts I saw at SXSW in Austin, TX last year.  Steve is a rare hippie country singer, but his latest CD is more folk with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2008/05/03/may-3-2008-all-work-and-no-play-make-mark-a-dull-boy/</link>
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