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		<title>Seeing red</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s vegetable garden has yielded countless tomatoes, and there are still plenty ripening on the vines. Two years ago I stitched a lovely little Hardanger doily from a pattern in the 1997 Diana Craft Journal, and took the pattern up a notch by stitching it on 32 count linen with long filament silks.  That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden report: harvesting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we last looked at Thing Two&#8217;s garden, a few tomatoes and radishes are now ready to be picked. Thing Two is also excited because he recently completed his set of series 4 Lego minifigures.  The mad scientist was the most difficult one for us to find, but we finally did it! The Team Gimlet: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checking in with Thing Two&#8217;s garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The garden is looking very green these days, with occasional glimpses of red. It looks like our mystery tomato plants are producing small &#8220;grape&#8221; tomatoes. More radishes are doing well.  Thing Two is looking forward to picking them. The mint has grown quite tall, and the peppermint has blossomed.  Walking between the boxes or watering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The little radish that could</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HML</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We thought last summer was dismal for gardening, but this summer has been so dark and damp that the best growing crop in Thing Two&#8217;s planter box is mushrooms.  The mint and chives are also thriving; in fact the peppermint is nearly as tall as Thing Two.  A few of the tomato blossoms took, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a summer solstice miracle</title>
		<link>http://gimletblog.com/2011/06/22/its-a-summer-solstice-miracle?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HML</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s long day of sunshine must have done the trick:  after today&#8217;s end-of-preschool picnic, Thing Two headed out to the south forty the back yard to check on his garden.  He ran back to the house, shouting, &#8220;I have tomatoes!&#8221;  When we last watered the garden we hadn&#8217;t noticed any blossoms, much less tomatoes, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we dare to garden?</title>
		<link>http://gimletblog.com/2011/06/03/do-we-dare-to-garden?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HML</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year has gone down in Seattle history as the year without a spring:  relentlessly cold, dark, and wet, even by local standards.  Our rosemary plant didn&#8217;t survive the winter, but the mint and chives not only survived, but are flourishing, giving us hope for Thing Two&#8217;s third summer garden.  (A note to our nearby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stakeout</title>
		<link>http://gimletblog.com/2010/10/21/stakeout?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HML</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The songbirds have been hanging out around our feeders like crazy recently, so on a recent afternoon their absence was noticeable.  Where did they go? Uh-oh.  Our neighborhood sharp shinned hawk was paying a return visit to our yard.  Perched on the bird bath stand under the lilac tree, it was hoping the other birds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cobwebs</title>
		<link>http://gimletblog.com/2010/10/05/cobwebs?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HML</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the Gimlet has been heard to complain that the blog hasn&#8217;t been updated in a while.  After all the summer&#8217;s excitement, it can be easy to forget documenting more ordinary life.  Time to sweep the cobwebs off the blog and catch up! We missed the obligatory back-to-school photos and post, but rest assured, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomato time</title>
		<link>http://gimletblog.com/2010/08/26/tomato-time?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HML</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Early Girls did not disappoint:  despite our garden&#8217;s late start, today Thing Two was able to harvest his very first tomato.  He decided that he would like to eat it for his before-bedtime snack. The verdict?  Delicious! He was a little disappointed that the second reddish-looking tomato on the plant wasn&#8217;t quite ready to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer garden, summer stars</title>
		<link>http://gimletblog.com/2010/08/13/summer-garden-summer-stars?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
		<comments>http://gimletblog.com/2010/08/13/summer-garden-summer-stars#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HML</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hope Thing Two&#8217;s garden will produce a harvest, in spite of the late start of summer.  Every day he enjoys watering and caring for his rapidly growing plants. The spearmint and peppermint are doing great in their new home. The basil and cucumbers make their debut.  So many different shades of green! Meanwhile, Thing [...]]]></description>
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