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		<title>Southern Hospitality and a Winter Garden in Davidson</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/03/10/southern-hospitality-and-a-winter-garden-in-davidson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Seating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seasons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone do hospitality better than Southerners? Perhaps. But I can&#8217;t think of who right now because last week I was in Davidson, NC, speaking at the Davidson Horticultural Symposium where the members of the Davidson Garden Club rolled out the red carpet. It&#8217;s very fresh in my mind. And, oh my!
I was there as one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidebar Note 3/7/2010</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/03/07/sidebar-note-372010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. Dawn over at Owl Hollow News won the Grocery Gardening drawing.  Congratulations, Dawn. I hope you enjoy the book.
What&#8217;s on your plate today? The weather here is sunny and at least not frigid. I&#8217;ll continue my early spring garden cleanup and also clean and repair bird houses. The bluebirds have made their return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidebar Note 3/6/2010</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/03/06/sidebar-note-362010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I find this one of the most anxiety-producing times of the year in the garden.
As I head outside and begin the winter cleanup, the whole summer garden thing just seems incredibly overwhelming. There&#8217;s so much to do. And I&#8217;m just one person out there. Honestly, I felt like sitting down to have a good cry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got Grocery Gardening?</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/27/got-grocery-gardening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giveaways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grocery Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pardon me while I open the Department of Shameless Promotion. Did you know that Grocery Gardening is on not one&#8230;not two&#8230;but THREE Amazon best seller lists? The reviews (not all of them from my friends) have also been positive. (My mother is so proud!)
If you don&#8217;t yet have a copy of this book I wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidebar note 2/22/2010</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/22/sidebar-note-2222010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/?p=1836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My lawn is a wreck.
I went outside to re-fill the bird feeders&#8212;AGAIN. The parts of my lawn that don&#8217;t look like the frozen tundra resemble a swamp. With every step I take my foot sinks down at least an inch. Walking to the feeders I can see my path in the mud.
I also see that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to Do With Too Much of a Good Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/22/what-to-do-with-too-much-of-a-good-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/22/what-to-do-with-too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egg cartons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eggs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you open my refrigerator door, you will see lots of fresh vegetables, skim milk, a large jar of yeast&#8212;and about 10 dozen eggs.
See, my 12 hens have not taken the winter season for a holiday. They keep laying and laying and laying.
The weekly menu on our refrigerator reads something like this: red pepper quiche, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidebar Note 2/17/2010</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/17/sidebar-note-2172010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you sick of everyone talking about the weather? I am too, but here goes&#8230;
There is so much snow on the ground, I don&#8217;t know when it&#8217;ll all melt. On top of that, much of it has iced to the extent that moving it from one place to another requires a pick ax. Walking in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Carol, This is my bloom&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/15/dear-carol-this-is-my-bloom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/15/dear-carol-this-is-my-bloom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flower and Garden Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloom day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Carol,
I know that you host a monthly Bloom Day event there at May Dreams Gardens, where gardeners share their monthly in-bloom reports.  I usually don&#8217;t participate because of 1) inattention, 2) lack of blooms 3) fear of competition 4) nothing particularly interesting to say and 5) general busy-ness.
But after suffering through nearly 30 inches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Snow Won&#8217;t Get Me Down, Oh No&#8230;The Snow Can&#8217;t Get Me Down</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/07/the-snow-wont-get-me-down-oh-no-the-snow-cant-get-me-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/07/the-snow-wont-get-me-down-oh-no-the-snow-cant-get-me-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/?p=1808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There must be about two feet of snow on the ground. I just trudged outside to check on the chickens.  (They&#8217;re royally p*@@ed, by the way.) I also broadcast another 15 or so pounds of bird seed onto the snow in the back yard.  Can your ankles get frostbite in ten minutes?
I&#8217;m back inside and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re Calling it the Storm of the Century</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/06/theyre-calling-it-the-storm-of-the-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/02/06/theyre-calling-it-the-storm-of-the-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/?p=1798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not even sure how much snow we have, but we have a lot of snow. So far the power is on. But I don&#8217;t think the 100 lbs. of birdseed I bought in preparation for the snow is going to hold out long. The birds are arriving in droves.
See for yourself.

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