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		<title>Stir-Fried Watercress Topped with Bacon</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/10/26/stir-fried-watercress-topped-with-bacon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoT&#8217;s Thot: I realized a little while ago that mothers typically pass on family recipes through the learn-as-you-grow and in-my-mother&#8217;s-kitchen methods.  Unfortunately for my sons, I did not make the transition to teaching my sons that way.  They have had occasional cooking lessons and they are handy at Boy Scout campout cooking &#8212; basic fried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Love Potatoes &#8212; Here is a Cool Picture of Harvest Today from Twitter</title>
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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>Roll, Pitch, and Yaw:  Fire in the Left Engine; Why I Love Aircraft Flight Simulators</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/09/05/roll-pitch-and-yaw-fire-in-the-left-engine-why-i-love-aircraft-flight-simulators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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DoT&#8217;s Thot: Sometimes we forget just how proud we can be of the profession we have been in &#8212; in this case, engineering.
A Memory Triggered About Roll, Pitch, and Yaw
I recently saw another article about the safe landing of an aborted flight and remembered this incident that occurred about 5 or 6 years ago.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scene in Hawaii:  View from My Mother&#8217;s Hospital Room</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/31/scene-in-hawaii-view-from-my-mothers-hospital-room/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:44:22 +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 Thot: Finding the silver lining in our cloud was appreciating the view from the hospital room that mother was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scene In Hawaii:  Rooster at the Shopping Center</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/29/scene-in-hawaii-rooster-at-the-shopping-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoT&#8217;s Thot: Roosters were a familiar sight in the Hawaiian countryside when I was little, but I never expected to see one while going to town to shop at the drug store and go to the market in the shopping center.
Scene in Hawaii:  Rooster in the Shopping Center Parking Lot
While visiting in Hawaii, I decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Mother&#8217;s Garden:  Pakalana, One of My Favorite Fragrant Vining Flowers</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/28/in-my-mothers-garden-pakalana-one-of-my-favorite-fragrant-vining-flowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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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:  They say that the sense of smell is perhaps our most evocative sense.  I do know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Mother&#8217;s Garden:  Shell Ginger Hidden Among the Red Ginger</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/20/in-my-mothers-garden-shell-ginger-hidden-among-the-red-ginger/</link>
		<comments>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/20/in-my-mothers-garden-shell-ginger-hidden-among-the-red-ginger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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 Thot: It has been said that you can&#8217;t go home again, but it is true that you can visit and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Mother&#8217;s Garden:  Red Ginger in Hawaii</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/18/in-my-mothers-garden-red-ginger-in-hawaii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:08:10 +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 Thot:  “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scene in Hawaii:  Hawaiian Kiawe Tree Revisited</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/15/scene-in-hawaii-hawaiian-kiawe-tree-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/15/scene-in-hawaii-hawaiian-kiawe-tree-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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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 Thot: I suddenly remembered the burlap bags of kiawe beans for the cows!
Hawaiian Kiawe Tree at the Park
Last week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scene in Hawaii:  Monarch Butterfly Caterpiller in a Supermarket Garden Shop</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/14/scene-in-hawaii-monarch-butterfly-caterpiller-in-a-supermarket-garden-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://dotsthots.com/2009/08/14/scene-in-hawaii-monarch-butterfly-caterpiller-in-a-supermarket-garden-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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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 Thot:  “Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face [...]]]></description>
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