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	<description>Life on the edge of Alaska&#039;s Lynn Canal</description>
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		<title>The Great Potato Seed Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have always battled potato scab. Some years I have had better luck than others. I read online that if you grow your potatoes from seed, rather than last year’s tuber, they will not pass on diseases. In addition, if the seed is grown in your own garden, it will be more adapted to your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Beowulf</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a bookworm. I devoured Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion avidly, along with many other works of fantasy. I particularly enjoy those with roots in myth and folklore, such as Nancy Farmer’s Sea of Trolls. Luckily, I found the myths themselves to be just as entertaining. I’m always on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sewing Machine &#8220;Re-tread&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How To]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we bought a Singer model #66 treadle sewing machine manufactured in 1918 and a treadle from a lovely lady in town. After buying the machine she served us lemonade in her garden and we chatted for quite a while. What a nice way to do business. The machine was perfectly tuned but the treadle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Channeling My Grandmother</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homesteading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living like our ancestors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been thinking a lot about my grandmother, Sarah Mae Eggleston Harris, who was one of my heroines. She knew so much about growing food, fishing, cooking, canning, sewing, loving and living a good life. Grandma grew up in a busy house full of siblings, cousins, parents and grandparents numbering up to thirteen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Misty Mountains</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Zeiger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kakuhan range]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week as the weather changed, the Kakuhans became something out of The Lord of The Rings—the maritime version, perhaps. This is a poor representation of what we really saw that day, as ever.]]></description>
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		<title>Reflectors Help Monitor the Wind Generator</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Zeiger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[monitoring wind generator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generating our own power means monitoring the equipment, particularly the wind generator. Like any piece of machinery, it operates within certain limits: it will not generate power with too little wind, nor will it survive too much wind. Our wind generator is built to withstand very high winds. In gusts of 35 knots or so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoe Laces by the Yard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Zeiger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clothing & Gear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homemade boot laces]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve noticed lately that we go through a lot of shoe and boot laces around here. It seems to be because mass manufactured eyes are more commonly made without attention to quality, leading to rough or sharp edges. Cheaper, softer metals used in eyes damage more easily, creating rough edges where none existed before. And, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canning As Fast as We Can</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Zeiger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The soundtrack of the homestead lately should be Offenbach&#8217;s Orpheus in the Underworld, because around here, we&#8217;re doing the can-can! Home canning is a quintessentially Alaskan activity closely associated with homesteading. It&#8217;s also very much a part of my life growing up. And yet, I&#8217;ve always managed to avoid direct involvement in the process, until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zeiger Family Homestead Blog, Year One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Zeiger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Seasons & Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I started the Zeiger Family Homestead Blog a year ago today! It began with this post, then I left if alone for a week. I&#8217;d been recruited by another blog, The Self Reliance Exchange, which wasn&#8217;t quite ready to go on line when I was, and I tried to hold off long enough to coordinate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Small World . . . .</title>
		<link>http://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=2769</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Zeiger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alaskan Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just For Fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sailing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The cutesy, multicultural, animatronic puppets in Disneyland are right: it is, indeed, a small world after all. I spoke with my brother, Dave, yesterday by phone. Why that&#8217;s unusual would not immediately occur to you unless you knew that Dave and his wife, Anke, live aboard their sailboat, Slacktide, and that, at the time I [...]]]></description>
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