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		<title>It&#8217;s not just leaves changing around here</title>
		<link>http://whiteoakattic.com/2011/10/its-not-just-leaves-changing-around-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall is a good time for sprucing up, isn&#8217;t it?  Ironically, I find myself in the middle of sprucing up on a much more grand scale than I&#8217;d planned but it feels a little more satisfying to be doing it now.  Silly probably but I can&#8217;t imagine doing the cleaning and rearranging that&#8217;s in front...]]></description>
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		<title>Meet my staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My efforts here are largely an outlet for my own busy imagination.  My husband Mark chips in for some parts of it and my children lend a hand here and there but mostly it&#8217;s just me and a houseful of pets who hang around to provide inspiration. Meet Sophie, Lucky, Mick and Ramses (plus Sebi...]]></description>
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		<title>Moving along to 1875, the telephone goes mainstream</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bell Telephone Company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two previous articles to this one have been tracing how our kinfolk might have communicated with each other here in the U.S. after 1860. We started with the Pony Express, watched its rapid replacement by the telegraph and now we have a look at about when the telephone enters the picture. This gadget has a...]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking News: The Telegraph Replaces the Pony Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news, the telegraph replaces the Pony Express.  I wonder if this was a headline back in 1861 when the Pony Express went out of business, replaced by the latest innovation in communication of the time; the telegraph.  It hasn&#8217;t quite gone that way in our time, when things just seem to fade out more...]]></description>
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		<title>The Pony Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the news of how the U.S. Postal Service is struggling to turn a profit, it brought to mind our earliest form of sending messages across our country, The Pony Express.  I hadn&#8217;t realized it was such a short lived enterprise, just 19 months or so, roughly a year and a half.  It opened for...]]></description>
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		<title>Why do little ideas sometimes end up being big trouble?</title>
		<link>http://whiteoakattic.com/2011/08/why-do-little-ideas-sometimes-end-up-being-big-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I seem to have a special talent for having a simple idea turn out to be really complicated when I try to act on it.  Apparently, I&#8217;m not the only one &#8211; the cow in the picture evidently had the simple idea of exploring life on the other side of the fence.  Look what...]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Solved?&#8230;&#8221;Cat Who&#8221; Series Author, Lilian Jackson Braun passed away</title>
		<link>http://whiteoakattic.com/2011/06/mystery-solved-cat-who-series-author-lilian-jackson-braun-passed-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in January I wrote about my passion for reading the &#8220;Cat Who&#8221; series of novels by Lilian Jackson Braun and puzzled over why the series trailed off in such a deflated way.  I pondered with the rest of her fans about whether or not the series was continued by a ghost writer, among other...]]></description>
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		<title>A Harmonious Relationship</title>
		<link>http://whiteoakattic.com/2011/03/a-harmonious-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get a huge kick out of the quirky behavior of my dog Lucky and her sidekick Ramses.  Both pets are hard luck stories.  Lucky, came to us many years ago. Found abandoned in the woods, emaciated and suffering from a wicked case of mange.  We thought she had no hope and took her to...]]></description>
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		<title>Back to My Lilian Jackson Braun Addiction</title>
		<link>http://whiteoakattic.com/2011/03/back-to-my-lilian-jackson-braun-addiction/</link>
		<comments>http://whiteoakattic.com/2011/03/back-to-my-lilian-jackson-braun-addiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in my last post I&#8217;ve changed jobs.  There&#8217;s been a lot of stress with that.  Not really a bad kind of stress (is there really such a thing as good stress?) but just stress from a stuffed schedule, logistical matters, that kind of thing.  I have a 17 year old who&#8217;s preparing to...]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Kind of March Wind</title>
		<link>http://whiteoakattic.com/2011/02/a-different-kind-of-march-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In like a lion and out like a lamb. The old axiom that describes the windy, sometimes stormy entrance of March and it&#8217;s often much more calm exit into the warmer months of Springtime. Whether it comes as described in this old saying or not, March represents the change of seasons from Winter to Spring....]]></description>
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