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		<title>Excavation and Repair</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/09/07/excavation-and-repair</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rain storms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of commotion here around Rural Route 2. Or there will be. It all started when we got a bad rainstorm on August 10. We ended up with about five inches here at the house. Other places in the county got over seven inches. The rain came down in buckets. It just poured. The next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzzzz!!</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/08/31/buzzzz</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting so that people are afraid to go outside here around Rural Route 2. You no more than step out the door, and there they are &#8212; biting, buzzing, sucking blood when they get a chance. It has been four or five years since we&#8217;ve had any mosquitoes around, not since the drought became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laverne and Shirley</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/08/28/laverne-and-shirley</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chickens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One evening last week, I was by the faucet at the back of the house, filling pails with fresh water for the horses. As I waited for a bucket to fill, Randy came rushing up the hill from the direction of the hen house. &#8220;Guess what? Guess what?&#8221; he said, breathless with excitement. &#8220;What?&#8221; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Next?</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/08/24/what-next</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[460 Farmall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Next? I think I might be glad to see the end of August. I hate to see the days getting shorter and shorter, but August just has not been a particularly good month. My kitty Jack was killed. Randy had an eye infection. I&#8217;ve got a bad case of poison ivy on both arms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poison Ivy Woes</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/08/17/poison-ivy-woes</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poison Ivy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a short story but a miserable one. The cat walked through the poison ivy. I picked up the cat. I now have a patch of poison ivy blisters on my left arm measuring six inches by six inches. It is draining so much that I am going through a gauze bandage and a nonstick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Long, Very Bad Day</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/08/08/a-very-long-very-bad-day</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday was a very bad day here at Rural Route 2. In the morning, I went outside with Pixie, and as I was standing out there, I heard a strange sound from down by the garden. I knew it was a cat, but it wasn&#8217;t a cat scream, like cats fighting. It was just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Statement for Practicality</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/08/04/a-statement-for-practicality</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to say that it all started when we were baling our hayfield a few weeks ago, but it actually started longer ago than that. Then I was going to say that it started last fall. But it&#8217;s actually been longer ago than last fall. It really all started when I was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of *Those* Days. . .</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/07/24/one-of-those-days</link>
		<comments>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/07/24/one-of-those-days#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[460 Farmall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Red Cedar River]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ruralroute2.com/?p=1065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the day started out with a jackhammer Friday morning, I knew it was going to be &#8220;one of those days.&#8221; After  I arrived at the newspaper office Friday morning, I could hear crashing and banging coming from the back of the building. The newspaper office used to be a John Deere shop many years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horsing Around</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/07/20/horsing-around</link>
		<comments>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/07/20/horsing-around#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fly wipe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ruralroute2.com/?p=1037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been around horses for a lot of years &#8212; about 40 years, I guess. But I&#8217;ve never had anything like this happen before. The other night, I decided to brush my little black mare, Isabelle, so I could put some fly spray on her and some lotion fly wipe on her face. When it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Me a Home Where the Kittens Roam</title>
		<link>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/07/17/give-me-a-home-where-the-kittens-roam</link>
		<comments>http://ruralroute2.com/2010/07/17/give-me-a-home-where-the-kittens-roam#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A six-minute video and pictures are now posted on Rural Route 2. Click here]]></description>
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