<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from larc.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 larc.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-18T11:49:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-11-18:links.412191312</id><title>On the Road Again</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/on_the_road_again.htm"><![CDATA[With Lionel in two shoes and new, light-weight, steel toed boots, the LARC household is once again fully staffed and rearing to go.&nbsp; Only its November.Normally this time of year brings with it snowfall which melts in the morning, frosty windows,]]></content><dc:subject>back on the farm</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/on_the_road_again.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-11-18T11:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-18T11:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-11-08:links.412189774</id><title>Pox News vs GNN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/pox_news_vs_gnn_1.htm"><![CDATA[While Fox News has been concentrating on turning the Fort Hood massacre into the next great Muslim attack against Americans,&nbsp;the rest of the world of&nbsp;new media has merely reported the ongoing investigation, responsibly staying away from&nbs]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/pox_news_vs_gnn_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-11-08T13:38:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-08T13:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-10-19:links.412187160</id><title>Snow in October</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/snow_in_october.htm"><![CDATA[Just to spite us, it snowed all day yesterday and through the night.&nbsp; Most of it disappeared on contact with the still warm ground, but this morning there&#39;s a carpet of fine dusty powder.&nbsp; It&#39;ll melt.&nbsp; But we still have 8 cords]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/snow_in_october.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-10-19T12:44:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-19T12:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-10-13:links.412186150</id><title>Enter the Fall</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/enter_the_fall.htm"><![CDATA[The Bundle and I recently came back from&nbsp; a trip to San Diego (a trip originally all three of us were to go on), leaving Lionel to his own devices, ice, elevated feet and numerous distractions to keep him sane.&nbsp; The trip was to participate]]></content><dc:subject>back on the farm</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/enter_the_fall.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-10-13T01:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-13T01:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-09-28:links.412184324</id><title>Getting a leg up</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/getting_a_leg_up.htm"><![CDATA[Hi there folks, yes I&#39;m still here!&quot;Time&quot; is one of those things that increasingly becomes a luxury, or rather, &quot;free time&quot;: that time in which you are not eating, talking with your spouse, paying bills, washing dishes, laundr]]></content><dc:subject>back on the farm</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/getting_a_leg_up.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-09-28T02:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-28T02:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-09-09:links.412181825</id><title>Nobody here but us</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/nobody_here_but_us.htm"><![CDATA[For the past two or three weeks we were waking up to the sound of demented crowing from our second flock of chickens.&nbsp; This flock, Rosemonts, were livelier than the White Rocks, and ate more grass, bugs and worms than the first flock, which we l]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/nobody_here_but_us.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-09-09T10:19:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-09T10:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-08-30:links.412180786</id><title>Blight makes Right</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/blight_makes_right.htm"><![CDATA[Yesterday, in the remnants of Danny, we reluctantly removed from the garden 60 dying blighted tomato plants and the subsequent 50 or 60 pounds of unusable fruit--gorgeous, beautiful fruit except for the spreading brown spots which we knew would only]]></content><dc:subject>back on the farm</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/blight_makes_right.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-08-30T12:12:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-30T12:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-08-25:links.412180333</id><title>Down and Dirty</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/down_and_dirty.htm"><![CDATA[Lionel had gone off to a college reunion in New York City, and left me behind to tend hearth, child and farm. So I did.&nbsp; With some help from Grandma, who took it upon herself to entertain the Bundle, I split and stacked a cord of wood, cleaned t]]></content><dc:subject>back on the farm</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/down_and_dirty.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-08-25T10:43:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-25T10:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-08-17:links.412179596</id><title>Summer in August.  Who&apos;da thought?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/summer_in_august__whoda_thought.htm"><![CDATA[Just in time for fall, summer has finally arrived here at Big House Farms.&nbsp; And its none too soon.&nbsp; Our basil is sputtering, our corn is stunted, and our beans, while finally putting out fruit, are hardly the beautiful specimens we&#39;d im]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/summer_in_august__whoda_thought.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-08-17T01:48:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-17T01:48:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-08-08:links.412178966</id><title>Home on the Range/All in a Name</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/home_on_the_rangeall_in_a_name.htm"><![CDATA[Today we had a small gathering honoring the C portion of the LARC household.&nbsp;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/home_on_the_rangeall_in_a_name.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-08-08T12:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-08T12:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-08-02:links.412178370</id><title>Dear Mr. President: Bud Light is not beer.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/dear_mr_president_bud_light_is_not_beer.htm"><![CDATA[Now that I&#39;ve got that off my chest, I can move on to more important subjects, such as New Hampshire&#39;s slow, inexorable transformation into New Seattle.&nbsp; In the last rain storm we had, which dumped almost four inches of rain on us, the r]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/dear_mr_president_bud_light_is_not_beer.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-08-02T12:27:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-02T12:27:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-07-26:links.412177806</id><title>The New Management Fad:  A Furlough</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/the_new_management_fad__a_furlough.htm"><![CDATA[Just in time for the Chicken Fest Weekend, my company announced they would need to put all employees on a one-day-a-week furlough, resulting in a 20 percent reduction in pay.&nbsp; Their reasoning was democratic; that they could not lay off the 15 pe]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/the_new_management_fad__a_furlough.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-07-26T12:56:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-26T12:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-07-21:links.412177390</id><title>End Game</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/end_game.htm"><![CDATA[This morning, as I began the process of feeding, watering and unleashing the chickens from their nightly captivity, I heard one of them crow in protest--Cockadoodle do!--a first hint of sexual maturity from our meat chickens.&nbsp; The end is near.Th]]></content><dc:subject>back on the farm</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/end_game.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-07-21T03:05:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-21T03:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-07-12:links.412176680</id><title>The Thousand Dollar Chicken</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/the_thousand_dollar_chicken.htm"><![CDATA[On Monday or Tuesday of last week I went to close the door of the chicken coop in the pouring rain (so what else is new?) and found one chicken sitting stubbornly outside the coop.&nbsp; I picked her up and placed her in the coop.&nbsp; The next day]]></content><dc:subject>back on the farm</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/the_thousand_dollar_chicken.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-07-12T12:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-12T12:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-07-05:links.412176057</id><title>Sunny, sunny days</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/sunny_sunny_days.htm"><![CDATA[The sun peeped out of its hidey hole on Friday morning, around 9:30am, after first giving us a repeat of the day before, and the day before that, and the day before that; a cold, dreary, thick fog, followed by a torrential downpour.&nbsp; Our house h]]></content><dc:subject>weather</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/sunny_sunny_days.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-07-05T12:53:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-05T12:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-06-30:links.412175563</id><title>Declaring a (weather) emergency</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/declaring_a_weather_emergency.htm"><![CDATA[Today it had finally cleared up enough for me to consider venturing outside for a quick stroll on the streets of Keene.&nbsp; I was halfway through my walk when the skies opened up again, which was too bad because I&#39;d brought neither coat nor umb]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/declaring_a_weather_emergency.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-06-30T01:38:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-30T01:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-06-22:links.412174846</id><title>Happy Father&apos;s Day</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/happy_fathers_day.htm"><![CDATA[Just in time for the big day, I caught a cold.&nbsp; Lionel offered to let me sleep in and I wearily agreed, thinking, in the back of my brain, that I&#39;d get up anyway and score some pancakes in the process.&nbsp; But I slept the sleep of the dead]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/happy_fathers_day.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-06-22T02:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-22T02:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-06-14:links.412174141</id><title>And the rains come</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/and_the_rains_come.htm"><![CDATA[We were spoiled earlier in the season, when a drought descended upon us in the form of weeks and weeks of bright, sunny, springtime weather.&nbsp; Now we&#39;re in a stormy weather pattern which allows the sun tantalizing outings here and there and t]]></content><dc:subject>back on the farm</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/and_the_rains_come.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-06-14T13:19:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-14T13:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-06-07:links.412173463</id><title>Love Free or Die</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/love_free_or_die_1.htm"><![CDATA[The great state of New Hampshire has always prided itself on its Yankee contrariness, its image as one of the last bastions of personal liberty, and yet, it took a Democratic (read: Socialist) majority in the NH House, Senate and governorship to gran]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/love_free_or_die_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-06-07T13:06:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-07T13:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-05-31:links.412172657</id><title>Farming by the seat of your pants</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/farming_by_the_seat_of_your_pants.htm"><![CDATA[Things had been going swimmingly with the chickens until Thursday, when a steady cold rain had descended upon us.&nbsp; Around 5 I went to check on the chicks and noticed the heat lamp had gone out.&nbsp; We replaced it with a 150 watt bulb but it wa]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/farming_by_the_seat_of_your_pants.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-05-31T13:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-31T13:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171772</id><title>Nobody but us chickens</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/nobody_but_us_chickens.htm"><![CDATA[Apparently, chickens arrive by U.S. Postal service, early in the morning, in a cardboard box marked &quot;chickens&quot; in case the peeping doesn&#39;t clue you in.&nbsp; They arrived on Thursday, but we&#39;d discovered that the brooder box Lionel]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/nobody_but_us_chickens.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T11:37:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T11:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-05-19:links.412170943</id><title>Star Trekking Across the Universe</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/star_trekking_across_the_universe.htm"><![CDATA[Went to see Star Trek this weekend.&nbsp; As one who in my youth had a Starfleet Academy bumper sticker placed prominently on my car, who read scores and scores of fan fiction, who dissed the Next Generation when it first came out but then grew to lo]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/star_trekking_across_the_universe.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-05-19T12:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-19T12:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-05-10:links.412169339</id><title>Getting Out of the Party</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/getting_out_of_the_party.htm"><![CDATA[The Republican Party and its sharp turn to the right (a turn not precipitated by any road sign or detour--they just went right into the ditch and stayed there) has been, oddly enough, their mainstay for the past decade.&nbsp; It was a truly odd jump]]></content><dc:subject>politics</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/getting_out_of_the_party.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-05-10T12:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-10T12:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-05-03:links.412168076</id><title>Spring</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/spring.htm"><![CDATA[Small green leaves are poking out of previously bare branches. The magnolia, tulips and forsythia are blooming.&nbsp; The ostrich fern is desperately trying to beat the likes of fiddlehead hunters like us, the asparagus is poking up, the onions are i]]></content><dc:subject>seasons changing</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/spring.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-05-03T13:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-03T13:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:larc.blog-city.com,2009-04-26:links.412166613</id><title>Hermit is a cookie</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://larc.blog-city.com/hermit_is_a_cookie.htm"><![CDATA[My Frenemy, the Concord Monitor, recently put out an online front-page plea for Letters to the Editor.&nbsp; I can see why; the latest gem is an editorial entitled &quot;Jeans are practical&quot; apparently in response to a sincerely held belief that]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://larc.blog-city.com/hermit_is_a_cookie.htm"/><dc:creator>Larc</dc:creator><author><name>Larc</name></author><updated>2009-04-26T11:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-26T11:52:00Z</published></entry></feed>