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	<title>Island Mama</title>
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	<description>Life on an island with three small boys</description>
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		<title>Home Improvements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks we&#8217;ve had three new skylights added to the kitchen, and all new carpet put in in the living and dining rooms and hallway. 


Kitchen before



Holes in the ceiling



Kitchen after; this is with NO lights on!



Funky light patterns in the deep skylight well

And the carpet&#8230; sorry, I didn&#8217;t take before photos. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/06/26/home-improvements/</link>
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		<title>Chicken Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re getting big! And they look like real chickens now. Harder to get pictures of lately.


Front: Silver Laced Wyandotte; Middle: Barred Rock; Back: Rhode Island Red



Easter Egger (Americauna)



Rhode Island Red Rooster and Hen

On Memorial Day, we moved their new house. It was formerly the home of a giant tortoise belonging to some friends, but he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/06/26/chicken-update/</link>
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		<title>More New Babies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time, kittens.


We&#8217;ve had them for a week now. They&#8217;re about 9 weeks old, both girls. I hardly have any pictures, though, because most of the time they&#8217;re either under the couch or moving too fast! We haven&#8217;t agreed on names yet; the kids have their ideas and we have ours and, um, they&#8217;re not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/06/26/more-new-babies/</link>
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		<title>Our New Babies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Silver Laced Wyandotte


Barred Plymouth Rock

Black Australorp

Silver Laced Wyandottes

Easter Egger (L) &#038; Rhode Island Red (R)

Rhode Island Red

Black Australorp

Rhode Island Red

Easter Egger
We got them on Wednesday, when they were 2 days old. We have 10 altogether, 2 each of 5 breeds. Now we need to build them a coop and run before they get too big!
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		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/04/17/our-new-babies/</link>
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		<title>The StumpHouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t have good trees for easy treehouse building &#8212; they&#8217;re all pines and firs, straight and tall. But last year, we had some trees taken down and we had the stumps left at about 4 feet tall. For no reason at the time, except that we might want them.
Two of them were conveniently close [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/03/28/the-stumphouse/</link>
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		<title>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Potatoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have one very small tradition for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. It involves potatoes, dirt, and Guinness. 

Prepping the beds.


Beautiful dirt.


Potatoes cut and ready to plant.


Ben planting.


Tim planting.


Cheers!
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		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/03/28/st-patricks-day-potatoes/</link>
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		<title>Pear Blossom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring is truly here. This was a few days ago &#8212; there are so many more blossoms open now on this tree, and others are joining in.

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		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/03/05/pear-blossom/</link>
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		<title>Celebrate the BOY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s always lots of ideas, patterns and tutorials around the web for things to make for little girls. So this month, as a crafting mother of three boys, I&#8217;ve been really enjoying Celebrate the BOY! month by MADE and Made by Rae.
I don&#8217;t have nearly as much time to sew as I&#8217;d like, and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/02/23/celebrate-the-boy/</link>
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		<title>Spring Bulbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crocuses are flowering.

Garlic is coming up.

We planted three kinds this year, some is further ahead than others.

We are still using last year&#8217;s garlic, and we haven&#8217;t even touched the softneck ones I braided yet. It&#8217;s not going to last &#8217;til July, when we harvest this, though. Hopefully this year we&#8217;ve planted enough to last a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/31/spring-bulbs/</link>
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		<title>Trains and Cameras</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday we went to Seattle for a Flickr meetup. The boys, of course, brought their cameras too.  We lost the crowd pretty quickly, but spent a while hanging out on the bridge Eric designed back in his engineering days, which is conveniently located over the train tracks. 
Boys love train tracks. 
Timothy checking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/31/trains-and-cameras/</link>
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