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	<title>Rants from the Hollow &#187; Life in the USA</title>
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	<description>I have an opinion, and I&#039;m not afraid to use it</description>
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		<title>Geothermal: the green cabin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Heiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of many long story shorts, one year later finds yet another Yoder on our building site, drilling four holes, each four inches across, and about 160 feet deep.]]></description>
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		<title>IT WHIRLS – IT FLASHES – IT’S PERPETUAL MOTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Heiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd always referred to my ornament as the birdcage, and its inexplicably satisfying to learn that the creator of the thing called it that, too. Its just a little bit of Ohio, hanging on the family tree of my life, embodying a rich and wonderful set of memories in a dated but surprisingly sturdy form.]]></description>
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		<title>Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Heiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were more than a bit surprised during last week's trip to the building site to flip a switch and actually see something light up. ]]></description>
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		<title>Its Spring Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Heiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with installing the septic system, back-filling the house and barn, re-contouring the building sites, and upgrading the driveway, Sheldon the Excavator recaptured the spring last week.  For sentimental and aesthetic reasons alone, its nice to have a spring again. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Original Log Cabin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Heiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents bought the Hollow in 1972, and it came with a cabin that had been occupied by the Fortune family until about 25 years earlier.  It was a small building for a house, with a single large room on the first floor and a steep stairway leading up to a low-ceilinged second floor.  Apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pouring basement floor</title>
		<link>http://www.heiserhollow.net/2011/10/basement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Heiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Other than 3 and a half inches of rain and the uncomfortably nearby escape of dozens of hungry lions, tigers, and bears, up until Friday, my parents evidently had a very quiet week at the Hollow. As my mom reports Yesterday we awoke to the sound of a  truck coming up the lane.  We  weren&#8217;t expecting [...]]]></description>
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