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		<title>Ice!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ice is so central to our experience in Eastern Ontario that we don’t think about it much. It’s just there, an underlying challenge and occasionally a threat, until it erupts into a major problem the way it did last week. The eerie part of the recent ice storm is how similar the weather was to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4180&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black walnut lumber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All fall I’ve scrambled to get things done before the snow came. This has left a workshop crammed with firewood and the tools shoved aside to provide space for ice-covered vehicles. Bags of hardware for various small tasks cluttered every horizontal surface in the shop. But I hadn’t done enough. The storm last week left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4149&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from another Friday 13th</title>
		<link>http://rodcroskery.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/it-takes-more-than-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have read many of these posts you will be aware of my deep antipathy toward Friday 13th. It’s not that I am normally superstitious, but too many bizarre and horrible things have happened to me on the date. So I go into each of these days with considerable apprehension and a marked reluctance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4106&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What women want</title>
		<link>http://rodcroskery.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/what-women-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our English springer spaniel Moody Blue died three years ago after a long decline.  Bet insisted each time I asked that she just wasn’t ready for another dog. And then last week Roz sent Bet a card in which she mentioned the fun Charlie had had over New Year’s weekend in Lakefield playing with their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4072&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to build your own garage door</title>
		<link>http://rodcroskery.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/how-to-build-your-own-garage-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Renovating a Stone House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black walnut for raised panels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eastern hemlock lumber]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  There&#8217;ve been several hits on this blog on the subject listed above, so I decided to put up a page dealing with the process.  A copy of the text lies below, but it will fall off the edge of the posts after a month or so.  A permanent copy is up as a page [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4061&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A book about the fish we eat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Christmas Roz gave me Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, by Paul Greenberg, Penguin, 2010. Greenberg&#8217;s childhood fish stories quickly hooked me. From there I willingly followed him through first-person accounts of the development of salmon farming, sea bass culture, the decline of the cod fishery and its substitutes, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4036&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stay off the ice.  It&#8217;s not time yet.</title>
		<link>http://rodcroskery.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/stay-off-the-ice-its-not-time-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See the more detailed report to the right, but the soft weather on this section of the Rideau has produced no gain in ice depth in a week.  It&#8217;s still about 4&#8243; deep, but with weak spots highly probable. Happy New Year.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4034&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Check the new ice report:  See right &#8212;&#8212;&gt;</title>
		<link>http://rodcroskery.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/check-the-new-ice-report-see-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Executive summary: There&#8217;s a bit over 3&#8243; of ice now on Newboro Lake.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4029&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Poem (sorta)</title>
		<link>http://rodcroskery.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/a-christmas-poem-sorta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Tis the week before Christmas and throughout the land We’re shopping and driving and making big plans For family reunions and holiday cheer With hopes for some snowflakes and weather that’s clear. - The Snowbirds are circling; their flocks swiftly grow. They line up at Customs: the post-Christmas show. They drive south in convoy, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=4016&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Book Review</title>
		<link>http://rodcroskery.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/christmas-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neal Stephenson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Baroque Cycle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Books make good gifts if well suited to their recipients’ reading habits. Here’s a current favourite, a big, honking adventure running heavily to geeks and gun nuts: Neal Stephenson. REAMDE. Harper Collins. 2011. $35 USD. Neal Stephenson first came to my attention when a librarian said, “My husband loves this book.” She handed me Cryptonomicon, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodcroskery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1604437&amp;post=3996&amp;subd=rodcroskery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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