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		<title>My unfriendly neighbor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He lives in the nearby pond, along with a whole lot of bullfrogs. Every once in a while &#8211; usually when it&#8217;s stormy out &#8211; he pulls himself out of the muck and, for some reason, crosses the street. Whenever anyone comes up on him, he just freezes in place. He doesn&#8217;t even seem to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=410&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And old draft that I was never able to get back to and complete: There&#8217;s nothing like being temporarily freed from a responsibility to remind us of our neglected other responsibilities. The first Tuesday in a while that I didn&#8217;t have to be on campus found me walking the fields with the dog and thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=369&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The big snow; the loss of two of the outbuildings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there was this big snow right before Christmas. December 19. It was lovely. Well over a foot fell in this part of New Jersey, and apparently much, much deeper over at the shore. The last storm this big was already now, what, three years ago? It&#8217;s been my impression that New Jersey winters are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=207&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the farm is sold; long live the farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 100-plus acre farm on which we live has been for sale for some time. It&#8217;s a huge chunk of land, and the restrictions on subdivision for this area are quite strict. Land cannot be subdivided into lots smaller than 13 acres, so it&#8217;s not the kind of parcel to move quickly on the market, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=154&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fall hike with things falling</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2009/10/26/a-fall-hike-with-things-falling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few weeks now since we took the hike I wanted to write about. The grading and lesson plans have completely taken over my life, and the guitar is going unplayed, the dishes are piling up, and the writing&#8217;s not getting done. Mid-semester fall is about the worst time of year work-wise for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=87&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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