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		<title>merrily along, two</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The internets are full of crazy these days—and if it isn’t flat out nuts, it has probably been generated by an AI chatbot—so here is a few more good news, good vibe, life isn’t all wrinkly grapes reports from my week. My positives this past week were… The weather cooperated enough that I was able [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 01:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I take a few months off blogging and, woops! There goes all the news and activities piling up. I upended my vegetable garden. Well, not literally, I guess. When we moved into the house I was resolute on the idea of devoting a chunk of the yard to a vegetable garden. It was a family [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Monday Zen: Pulling Weeds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 02:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned that my vegetable garden has been sprouting through the spring in a particular state of ambiguity.&#160; As all the little seeds I deliberately planted in May began to germinate and grow, so did the variety of weeds and volunteer plants begin to emerge from the soil. In many cases [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>May Long Weekend Gardeners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 14:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a sunshiny Flourishing Friday and on this upcoming Monday Canadians across the country will be celebrating our role in the Commonwealth and thinking fondly of dear Queen Victoria&#8217;s Birthday for Victoria Day, a Canadian statutory holiday celebrated on the Monday preceding May 25 in every province and territory, and &#8230; well, actually &#8230; mostly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Garden Irrigation Project, Part One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a Flourishing Friday and for the next few months I&#8217;m going to use these end-of-the-workweek-days to post something about my efforts to be a productive vegetable gardener. Y&#8217;know&#8230; vegetables that I can perhaps later cook into a delicious cast iron grilled meal. Yet, it&#8217;s still deep in the cool spring and though I got [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 14:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[May is planting season around here, the month usually starting by ensuring the root veggies are in the ground and ending by poking hundreds of more delicate seeds into the soil. The weather cooperated long enough for me to till the recently-thawed layer of topsoil in the corner of my yard which I keep open [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Apple Harvest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 02:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The local radio (yes, I still listen to the radio) was discussing apples this afternoon. The public broadcaster hosts an afternoon general interest show where a pair or trio of hosts chatter about local news topics, update on weather and traffic, interview local businesses, and generally have a daily topic encouraging people to engage and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Raspberries I Have Loved</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s probably something to do with the unusual heat, but all my berries are coming ready about two weeks earlier than usual this year. Our fridge is already full of saskatoon berries (some of which are destined for a fate of pie later this morning) and over the last couple days I’ve spent nearly an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 21:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Four large lush bushes occupy various spots in my backyard. I planted these shrubs about eight to ten years ago as worked to fill my garden beds with as many fruit-bearing plants as could reasonably live adapted to this crazy northern climate zone. Lonicera caerulea is also known in some parts of the world as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>May Long Weekend</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 21:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just like the saying goes not to wear white after labour day, locally there seems to be a start line for the summer season: May long weekend. As of posting this I&#8217;ve wrapped up my work week and I am planning how to spend the first official three day weekend of the vague, loosely-defined stretch [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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