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		<title>2001 and Done</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry for the length of this post, but I need to cover a lot of information. This day has been a long time coming. For me, perhaps, too long. This is the 2001st post on the Zeiger Family Homestead &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14150">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Constrictor Knot Deconstructed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has often been said that the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else. For a long time, I&#8217;ve wanted to fully learn a particular knot that would be a very useful one in my &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14184">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Just In Time&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s folly to think of preparedness as last-minute goods grabbing instead of a way of life.&#8221;  —Sean Maidy My friend and, until quite recently, Borough Assembly Member, Sean Maidy, thought this up in the shower recently, along with several other &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14193">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Social Distancing The Homestead Way</title>
		<link>https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14187</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paging through Facebook has always been a go-to procrastination method on these days when I have a blog deadline looming. Lately, everything&#8217;s coronavirus, of course. Today, as I procrastinate, a lot of Facebook posts show friends social distancing. Since many &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14187">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>March Patreon Offerings: Knitting and More</title>
		<link>https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14179</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Place at the Table]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, at noon, our Patreon Patron &#8220;Things&#8221; dropped. Exclusively for upper tier patrons, the A Place At the Table recording of family discussions at the dining table (or other homestead table, see Patreon &#8220;Things&#8221; Posted for May) continued the topic &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14179">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Proper Chimney</title>
		<link>https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14174</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Construction Projects]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had enough trouble with the draft of our wood stove flue that we decided to extend the chimney. A &#8220;proper&#8221; chimney requires a minimum height above the roof, or roof line—opinions differ—to create the correct amount of draw to &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14174">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cucina Povera</title>
		<link>https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14164</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, I learned a lovely Italian term that has special meaning for our family: Cucina Povera. Cucina Povera can mean &#8220;poor kitchen&#8221; or &#8220;poor cuisine&#8221;—peasant food, in other words. I&#8217;ve long been enamored with peasant food, particularly since it makes &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14164">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fiddling While the World Burns: Playing Pandemic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While the world tracks and decides how to deal with Covid-19, a new and growing form of coronavirus, our family is fiddling while the world burns, playing the cooperative game, Pandemic by Z-Man Games (paid link). Just like the opening &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14155">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>March Roars In like a Lion</title>
		<link>https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14146</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 18:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[March]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We had some seriously, notably calm weather the last days of February. Then, last night, a southerly gale came in at around 40 knots. We&#8217;ve seen worse on the first of March, (see March Arrives in Leonine Fashion) but it &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14146">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thank You, No More February for Me, Please . . . .</title>
		<link>https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14139</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Zeiger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am reaching &#8220;that certain age&#8221; when, at last, I can call things as I see them, as curmudgeonly as that may make me. In the past, I&#8217;ve tried to be diplomatic about my feelings for the month of February &#8230; <a href="https://akzeigers.com/blog/?p=14139">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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