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		<title>If You Love Potatoes &#8212; Here is a Cool Picture of Harvest Today from Twitter</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/09/08/if-you-love-potatoes-here-is-a-cool-picture-of-harvest-today-from-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoT&#8217;s Thot: Sometimes I wonder about the farmers and who will be growing our food in the future.  When I was a child, I had uncles and aunts and cousins who farmed back in Hawaii &#8212; growing banana, truck farming vegetables, hot-housing orchids, and even making charcoal.  Gradually that is fading away&#8230;.
Potatoes Just Being Harvested

If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scene in Hawaii:  Hawaiian Bougainvillea &#8220;Dragons&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE:  DoT has been posting from Honolulu since late July when she left California to help her mother through some medical procedures.  She will be doing so until she can return to Orange County.
DoT&#8217;s Thots: &#8220;A dragon can be unseen or visible, minute or huge, long or short. However,
always it is great.&#8220;  &#8212; Shuo Wen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monarch Butterfly Sightings Haiku &#8212; the Asclepsis Gardener&#8217;s Reward</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoT&#8217;s Thot:
 
 
 
 
Monarch Butterfly Effect
Busily canning tomatoes today, I looked out the window over my kitchen sink and there it was &#8212; flitting around my butterfly bush plant. I felt a little less tired; and instead, happy that the orange-gold, black and white &#8220;flutter-by&#8221; distracted me from work.  
Hope to post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed the Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis &#8212; Found It Empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8217;s Thot: &#8220;Just when the caterpillar thought the world was
over, it turned into a butterfly.&#8221; &#8211;Unknown
 
Dot&#8217;s Jot:
Quick Note &#8212; I had looked and looked for the chrysalis and could not find any.  Then in mid-June I saw this one empty chrysalis &#8212; not that seafoam/turquoise gold-speckled chrysalis, but the empty pale tan husk that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grow Tomatoes Journal News:  2009 Late Blight hits East Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I don&#8217;t say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they&#8217;d come up sliced” &#8212; unknown

Dot&#8217;s Thot:  If our tomato gardening goofs only &#8220;sliced&#8221; out tomatoes, we would be in BLT heaven.
I was surfing the net again to learn more about tomatoes and came across this news item about a current tomato [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Fastest Growing Cities in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8217;s Thot:  &#8220;USA Today has come out with a new survey &#8211; apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.&#8221;  &#8211; David Letterman
This data relates only to cities of over 100,000 in population and shows the top 10 of the 25 listed..  Growth goes from July 2007 to July [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monarch Butterfly Egg Hunt is On</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/05/15/monarch-butterfly-egg-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8217;s Thots:    &#8220;The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.&#8221; &#8211;
Rabindranath Tagore
I have looked unsuccessfully for Monarch butterfly eggs in the past and doing it again.  I do have very bad eyes, but suspect it was my timing..  Here is a picture from the Wikimedia site that actually shows a butterly laying [...]]]></description>
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