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		<title>Avoiding more victims by capping a sticky gusher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you followed news of the three-month-long Gulf Oil Spill earlier this year, you know how distressing it was to see the victims. Well, it was almost as sticky at my cabin for 12 months before Terry Gray of Inverness Park and I finally capped another gusher one week ago. For the past year, visitors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=8375</link>
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		<title>Table of contents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Past postings are numbered in the order they went online, with the most recent postings located immediately below the Table of Contents. To go directly to stories without scrolling, click on the highlighted phrases following the numbers. Weekly postings are published by Thursday. 262. Crafting the Considerate House 261. West Marin remembers Duane Irving 260. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=8371</link>
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		<title>Signs of the times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can learn much about a society from its signs whether they announce weekend events at the Dance Palace or warn: &#8220;Speed Limit 35 — Radar Enforced.&#8221; &#8220;The sign brings customers,&#8221; wrote the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), but sometimes signs can make it appear that the merchant has changed her mind. Take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=8272</link>
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		<title>Crafting the Considerate House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Homebuilding techniques are not a topic I usually spend much time reading about, but I&#8217;ve found a new book titled Crafting the Considerate House to be surprisingly intriguing. The word &#8220;considerate,&#8221; by the way, is being used here to mean more than just environmentally considerate — although that&#8217;s included. Indeed, the book in places argues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=8187</link>
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		<title>West Marin remembers Duane Irving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roughly 200 West Marin residents showed up Sunday evening in Toby&#8217;s Feed Barn to honor Duane Irving, who died of a heart attack July 19 at the age of 75. A  succession of residents related their memories of Duane for the crowd, and several remarked on his fondness for ice cream. Duane&#8217;s parents had owned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=8148</link>
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		<title>The art of boating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.&#8221; — Fisherman&#8217;s prayer from France&#8217;s Brittany coast. &#8216;Stacked Boats II,&#8217; 48-by-48 inches, in the I Wolk Gallery. A Point Reyes Station artist who in recent years has managed to survive on small boats is Bruce Lauritzen. In fact, for the past month, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=8095</link>
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		<title>Firefighters in action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before noon Wednesday, I received a call from Linda Sturdivant who was looking off her deck in Inverness Park. &#8220;I see smoke!&#8221; were the first words out of her mouth. A column of smoke was rising in the vicinity of Black Mountain, she said. Immediately I hopped into my car and headed that way, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=8066</link>
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		<title>Do you like coyotes and bobcats? How about rats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coyotes began howling not far from my cabin just before dark tonight. For me it&#8217;s a thrill to hear and occasionally see them, but I&#8217;m no sheepman. For 40 years, there were no coyotes in West Marin because of poisoning by sheep ranchers. However, coyotes never disappeared from northern Sonoma County, and after the federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=8023</link>
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		<title>Los mapaches con cacahuates; también fotos de los cuervos y venados</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A mother raccoon guards her two kits while they eat peanuts (cacahuates) off my deck. My former wife Ana Carolina in Guatemala refers to raccoons as &#8220;mapaches,&#8221; which is the name the Spanish colonists gave them. The word was taken from the Nahuati word &#8220;mapachitli,&#8221; meaning &#8220;one who takes everything in its hands.&#8221; Nahua was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=7963</link>
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		<title>Proposal for ceasefire in West Marin &#8216;newspaper war&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal last Wednesday published the latest in a series of out-of-town-media reports on the dispute between The Point Reyes Light and The West Marin Citizen. The report ran under the headline: &#8220;Newspaper War Rages in West Marin.&#8221; With many West Marin residents wishing the &#8220;war&#8221; would end, more than 300 people as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=7912</link>
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