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		<title>round three</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In snatches of time spent in the garden (mostly in response to two cats who have perfected &#8220;begging to go outside&#8221;), I&#8217;ve noticed the roses getting ready for the third round of bloom this season.  The salvias, star jasmine, and dianthus are also having another go at it.  There are buds on the lemon and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>is it typical?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you growing tomatoes, is it typical for your plants to look its straggliest when the fruit is most plentiful?  Or is it just my poor vegetable gardening skills?  Don&#8217;t spare me, I can take it.

&#8230;&#8230;.And this is the prettiest angle I could find.
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		<title>nostalgia meme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabulous has tagged me with an interesting meme that, I think, started here.  It&#8217;s kind of fun to think back to earlier days.
1. Can you remember without looking what your first post was about?
It was possibly about fish sauce.  I remember adamantly not wanting to call what I was doing blogging.  It was just going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>indecision</title>
		<link>http://nikkipolani.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/indecision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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photo by beginninghere
Ever have something on your calendar for many weeks only to wish it wasn&#8217;t there when the date arrived?  My weekend had suddenly filled up and a busy week at work made me reconsider a long-planned visit with friends &#8212; an early birthday party for my friends&#8217; mom.  Invariably, once I&#8217;m there, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GTS: only one</title>
		<link>http://nikkipolani.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/gts-only-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I&#8217;m misremembering, but I thought early summer was a good time for my plumeria to really show off.  So far this summer, there&#8217;s just a soloist.

It’s Green Thumb Sunday!
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday;
visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
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		<title>some of this</title>
		<link>http://nikkipolani.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/some-of-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago when I first came to work at my current company, I became a part of a close-knit group of co-workers.  I&#8217;d never experienced anything quite like it.  We were each from a different country &#8212; Sri Lanka, Philippines, Vietnam, Egypt, Mexico and later Indonesia and Taiwan.  Each Friday about mid-morning, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a little of everything</title>
		<link>http://nikkipolani.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/a-little-of-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a great long holiday weekend with surprises, good food, family, friends, blue skies.
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1.  For a Fourth of July dinner with roomie&#8217;s parents, brother, and my parents, I tried a couple of bean salads - one with black beans, red onion, roasted corn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>today</title>
		<link>http://nikkipolani.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Thanking God today for allowing me to live in this great country.
Happy Independence Day!
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		<title>love thursday: blue</title>
		<link>http://nikkipolani.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/love-thursday-blue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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I love blue.  When a dark blue variety of agapanthus began showing up in gardens here and there several years ago, I knew I wanted one.  My garden was still in the &#8220;before&#8221; stage then and I wasn&#8217;t ready to plant anything for real yet.  This summer, a dear friend let me get a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>late start</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember my mother cooking with her wok &#8212; trying out the new Chinese recipes she was learning from the adult education center not far from home.  Perhaps it was the extra step of keeping her wok seasoned or storage issues, but somewhere along the years, she packed up her wok.

A few weeks (months?) ago, [...]]]></description>
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