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		<title>April on the Land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a dry fall, after a dry summer, and a dry winter followed the dry fall.  Other places got rain&#8211;sometimes nearby&#8211;but we had none for months.  March brought a little&#8211;April has brought a little&#8211;and now we have some flowers. The bluebonnets may be only 4-5 inches tall, instead of knee-high, but they&#8217;re there&#8211;in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change &amp; Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned on Twitter that more trees had failed to leaf out this spring, victims of the long drought which not only did not provide them enough water to survive, but prevented us from having any supplemental water to give them.   Someone suggested what seemed reasonable&#8211;why not plant trees from the next climate zone (or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1268</link>
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		<title>Ring Out, Wild Bells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another year of brown spring and summer&#8230;though some people got more rain, we&#8217;re still behind, and the quick brown-off after the rain we did get proves it. This is not how the land should look in early June: we should still have at least half the grass green, and the June flowers in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1256</link>
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		<title>Fencing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our house, fencing has two meanings: the stuff I do with swords (Renaissance style) and the stuff we both do with posts and wire and clamshell posthole diggers and shovels and so on.   Often my husband works on fence alone.   I have books to write.  When he&#8217;s sick or injured, the fence projects languish&#8230;and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1243</link>
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		<title>Monarchs, At Last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monarchs nectaring on Gayfeather (Liatris sp.) This year has become our new record for both heat and drought.  According to TX-Butterfly (a listserv I&#8217;m on) monarchs took a more westerly course this year across drought-stricken Texas, but yesterday another list member and I both reported a lot of monarchs flying by or nectaring east of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1232</link>
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		<title>Deep Drought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roughleaf dogwood &#38; oak thicket in August 2011 East margin of creek woods&#8211;August 2011-leaves turning &#38; dropping Cactus Flat: even the prickly pear is drying out We have been in the brown&#8211;the worst color-code for drought&#8211;for months.   We have not had regular (non flood-pulse) flow in the creek for over a year and it has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1219</link>
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		<title>Always Something New</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unfamiliar plant shows up every now and then (more often after rains, and really often after flood events that move seeds from upstream above our property down into the damp areas.)    Over the weekend, my husband reported a plant new to him over on Westbrook near the south fenceline: a Composite, very small flowers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1206</link>
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		<title>Cloud Pavilion: New Rain Barn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On land with no permanent water source, rain harvesting is the only way to provide reliable supplemental water for wildlife.    (Well, you can lug it in on your back or a cart or trailer, but that&#8217;s no fun at all when temperatures top 100F day after day.)   And rainwater is a healthier source of water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1194</link>
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		<title>Leaves and Acorns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fall color here starts early (sometimes very early)  but slowly, moving leaf by leaf, species by species, until the final flare of rich red from the last oaks in late November (with the occasional rusty blackhaw viburnum holding on to its red leaves into December.) Smooth sumac, green and burgundy We have three sumacs on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1187</link>
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		<title>Monarchs in Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some years we get spectacular drifts of Monarchs migrating south, and some years they come in little groups of three or four&#8230;not many at a time.   Today I went out on a day of blue sky, bright sun, brisk north wind, just to see what was out there. Maximilian sunflower is an native prairie plant;  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1176</link>
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