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	<title>The Sustainable Backyard</title>
	<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog</link>
	<description>Just another blog from a smalltown homesteader</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Our Resident Squirrel</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/22/our-resident-squirrel/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/22/our-resident-squirrel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Critters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VIDEOS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[black walnut]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[squirrel]]></category>

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		<title>New Kitchen Gardeners&#8217; Video</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/14/new-kitchen-gardeners-video/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/14/new-kitchen-gardeners-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Front Yard Farming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VIDEOS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[KGInternational]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, I had a Kitchen Gardeners International &#8220;Eat the View&#8221; campaign widget in my sidebar. In my rearranging and changing formats, it did not return.  &#8220;Eat the View&#8221; is a campaign designed to encourage the White House  to convert a portion of  presidential lawn into an edible landscape. Roger Doiron, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And did I mention I have grasshoppers?</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/12/and-did-i-mention-i-have-grasshoppers/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/12/and-did-i-mention-i-have-grasshoppers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Critters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[crop damage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[grasshoppers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[♥
  
 
 
Like my new design?

 
 And we cannot forget this little guy&#8230;.
 
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		<title>Garden Happenings and Plant Identification</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/12/garden-happenings-and-plant-identification/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/12/garden-happenings-and-plant-identification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[harvest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the weather being cool one week, then blistering the next, my garden (and I) are confused. The only things that are prolific at the moment are the grasshoppers.

Can anyone tell me to what plant this flower belongs? I have two small plants in a long planter with my zuchini (won&#8217;t do that again) that never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBay Fraudulent Emails</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/12/ebay-fraudulent-emails/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/12/ebay-fraudulent-emails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eBay]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[identity theft]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[selling on eBay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe this isn&#8217;t the place to present this, but I just had a pretty significant scare in regardings to one of my eBay selling accounts. I must preface this with I consider myself somewhat savvy in the ways of criminals and that I have been accused of being too suspicious on more than one occasion. That said, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dehydrating Harvest Outdoors</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/12/dehydrating-harvest-outdoors/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/12/dehydrating-harvest-outdoors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Kitchen]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[dehydrating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After several attempts at either purchasing a solar dehydrator at a decent cost or making one myself, I have given up and decided to use my electric one outdoors. We moved my baker&#8217;s rack onto the side porch to make an outdoor kitchen of sorts and away I went&#8230;..
 
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		<title>New Video at Path to Freedom</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/07/new-video-at-path-to-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/07/new-video-at-path-to-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Backyard Homesteading]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Other Blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PATH TO FREEDOM / Dervaes Family]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[dervaes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Path to Freedom]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Urban Homesteader]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
click here to see more videos like this

This is part one of the new video over at Path to Freedom Urban Homesteaders. It gives a QUICK look at garden before an interview with Farmer D.
I have more to say, but we are running out the door to catch a movie with DD as a belated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Cooker Has Arrived</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/06/solar-cooker-has-arrived/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/06/solar-cooker-has-arrived/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Cooking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[♥
As they finally promised, my cooker arrived on August 1st&#8230;.4 days shy of two entire months from when I purchased it.
Just thought I would share a couple of photos of our first attempts.



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		<title>The BIG 5-0!</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/06/the-big-5-0/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/06/the-big-5-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ramblings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[happy birthday to me]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This photo is appropriately labeled as &#8220;Birthday Depression&#8221;&#8230;.It speaks for itself and the title of this entry. 
I invite you to join my (online) party and have a taste of my &#8220;fictitious&#8221; cake&#8230;because that&#8217;s all there is folks&#8230;&#8230;

With a volunteer fire department, maybe it&#8217;s not such a bad thing to not have a birthday cake&#8230;.50 candles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Disappointment!</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/01/garden-disappointment/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/01/garden-disappointment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[garden disappointments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I started to respond to comments, I realized I was writing an entire post, so I decided to move it here.
Thus far, I would not consider my garden a success by any stretch of the imagination.
I water daily, sometimes twice, at the base of the plants. Never overhead. I water by hand with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corn and More Corn!</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/01/corn-and-more-corn/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/08/01/corn-and-more-corn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[100 mile Localvores]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ramblings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freezing corn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[garden harvest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sweet corn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Projects are still not complete and time is quickly running away from me. The heat is not helping matters any and my garden is a severe disappointment.
Yesterday the farmer that we purchased our hog from was selling his sweet corn out of his truck up on Main Street. DH bought a dozen walking home from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfinished Projects</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/23/unfinished-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/23/unfinished-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There has not been much time for writing these past few weeks, but now I find that I must focus all of my attention on a few projects around here that have to be finished immediately. We have had several small issues become bigger issues and if we do not get on top of it all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Jay Antics</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/20/blue-jay-antics/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/20/blue-jay-antics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Critters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[My Hero]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VIDEOS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, Blue Jays have not been in my good favor. In every location I have lived, prior to here, the Blue Jays were aggressive, threatening, and pretty much a nuisance. This year is different. Not too long ago, we rescued a baby Jay from one of our window wells. All day, I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fruit Trees</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/20/fruit-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/20/fruit-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Backyard Homesteading]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Front Yard Farming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Other Blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fruit trees]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[♥
After reading HausFrau&#8217;s The Fruit Tree Commitment at Peak Oil Hausfrau, I became&#8230;.um&#8230;.wellllll&#8230;.envious of her lovely peach tree and harvest. Being envious when visiting HausFrau is nothing new though, it is a common occurence with her solar cooking successes and victorious efforts toward sustainability.
I have a confession to make.
I have a love for pear trees, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh Hot Biscuits</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/16/hot-fresh-biscuits/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/16/hot-fresh-biscuits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baking Bread]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recipes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About an hour after dinner tonight, everyone was saying that they were still hungry&#8230;.so I decided to make some homemade biscuits and gravy. I made a batch large enough for  breakfast tomorrow and then fried up our first taste of our local hog sausage. Yum!
Buttermilk Biscuits
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T. Boone Pickens and Alternative Energy</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/16/t-boone-pickens-and-alternative-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/16/t-boone-pickens-and-alternative-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oil Prices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PickensPlan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[T. Boone Pickens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ ♦
I&#8217;m from Texas, so when T. Boone Pickens begins talking about our need to find alternative energy, I listen. T. Boone Pickens is a name synonomous with oil. He was one of the first independent oilmen to build his oil empire on aquisitions rather than complete dependence on exploration.
According to Wikipedia&#8230;.
Pickens has begun speaking out on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WooHooo! I am a WINNER!</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/16/woohooo-i-am-a-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/16/woohooo-i-am-a-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yiiippppeeee! Hoooooraaaah! I am a winner of The Happiest Blog 4000 EntreCard Contest. I am fairly new to EntreCard, so this is pretty exciting.The Happiest Blog on earth has a great tagline&#8230;..
The Secret of how to be happy and find happiness on the happiest blog in the world with great smiles that make my day!~THANKS~SmileMyDay!
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		<title>The 7 Things Meme</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/14/the-7-things-meme/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/14/the-7-things-meme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[MEME]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was tagged by Mrs. Mecomber at New York Traveler.net  for The 7 Things Meme some time ago. We have been so busy here that I have not been able to catch up on my &#8220;blog duties&#8221;,  so I hope she will forgive my late response.  So seven things about me, that I would dare to share&#8230;..
1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do I Need to Work On?</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/14/what-do-i-need-to-work-on/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/14/what-do-i-need-to-work-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Reduce Reuse Recycle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[waste reduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Answer: PLENTY!
Lewru, at Wisdom of the Trowel, has a great post Wastrels and the Wastey Wasters They Rode in On&#8230;.. about how people all around her continually waste resources and seemingly have no clue or care of the negative difference they make on an overburden earth.
She concludes her post with the summation that we all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home at Last!</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/14/home-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[♥ 
I feel as though I have  been away for weeks&#8230; maybe even months, but I am now home for at least a few days. We have been in Nebraska for the Miss Basketball Tournament since last Wednesday. I am now confirming that my brain is mush&#8230;because I just had to spell and re-spell&#8230;TWICE&#8230;the word Wednesday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Clean is MY Electricity?</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/11/how-clean-is-my-electricity/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/11/how-clean-is-my-electricity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How clean is the electricity that I use and how does it compare to the national average?
http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/how-clean.html
My Fuel Mix Comparisons


1


2

0


7

15


20

1


3

5


17

78


50

%


Non-Hydro Renewables
Hydro
Nuclear
Oil
Gas
Coal









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		<title>Happy 4th of July!</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/04/happy-4th-of-july/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/04/happy-4th-of-july/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[♥
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		<title>Fuel Cheaper in Mexico?</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/03/fuel-cheaper-in-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/03/fuel-cheaper-in-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night after dinner, our favorite restaurant owner and I were talking about the price of fuel and its effects on his industry. He mentioned that he did not understand why gasoline was so much cheaper in Mexico, stating that it was only $2.50 per gallon. I thought maybe he was just  misinformed, because I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steeling Yourself Against Rising Gas Prices</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/03/steeling-yourself-against-rising-gas-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/03/steeling-yourself-against-rising-gas-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[rising fuel costs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[U.S.News &#38; World Report
How to Guard Against Rising Gas Prices
Wednesday July 2, 3:17 pm ET
By Kimberly Palmer
Rising gas prices are inspiring drivers to find new ways of protecting themselves against future increases&#8211;including buying gas in advance and investing in stocks that tend to rise along with the price of gasoline.
One new company, MyGallons.com, lets customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Going to a 4-Day Work Week!</title>
		<link>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/03/utah-going-to-a-4-day-work-week/</link>
		<comments>http://thesustainablebackyard.com/smalltownhomesteaderblog/2008/07/03/utah-going-to-a-4-day-work-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anajz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I wrote a bit about a movement toward 4 day work week to cut energy costs, but mostly to offset the expense of working a 40 hour week over a five day week. 
So maybe others will follow suit with Utah&#8230;.
Utah is Going to a 4-Day Work Week to Save Energy 
SALT LAKE [...]]]></description>
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