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		<title>Learning fiddle tunes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With cider season wound down, I&#8217;ve got more time for playing fiddle, and I&#8217;ve been learning some new music, so I thought I&#8217;d write a post about resources for learning tunes.  The stuff I play is a mixed bag centered roughly around  traditional New England dance music, which has Irish, Scots, Quebec, Cape Breton, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&blog=575588&post=501&subd=fiveislandsorchard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that readers accustomed to the usual apple, ag, and energy-themed material will excuse a bit of indignant ranting social criticism.  The 2009 cider madness was made possible by the generosity of a guy I scarcely knew at the time, a friend of a friend who lent us a tandem bike to power the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&blog=575588&post=493&subd=fiveislandsorchard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year 5: Monday &#8211; cleaning up and shipping out</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday was another nice day, perhaps not as warm as Sunday but still very pleasant.  Kauf, Kelsey, and Andy helped out with cleanup in the AM, then headed back to Boston after lunch.  In the morning we cleaned up the pole barn, stowed the press in a corner, and moved the various other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&blog=575588&post=481&subd=fiveislandsorchard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year 5: Sunday &#8211; the last of the cider</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday dawned clear, still, and warm.  Breakfast consisted of French toast, made with some of the multitude of baguette that Andy brought from the farm where he works.  There was plenty of time before a quorum arrived to make cider, so Joshua, Kelsey, and I took advantage to replumb the hydraulic system with the check [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&blog=575588&post=470&subd=fiveislandsorchard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year 5: Saturday &#8211; cider on!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning Emily and I screwed together the base grate while people drifted in for breakfast.  Just when the pikes were about to come out, Brandon and company showed up and produced some very tasty pancakes, which hit the spot with North End maple syrup.  As promised, it was raining steadily.  Joshua finalized the attachment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&blog=575588&post=463&subd=fiveislandsorchard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year 5: Friday &#8211; setting up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got up around 6AM on Friday and spent the day setting up and preparing for cidering.  Joshua and Kelsey went up to Portland looking for real estate, and Alexis went along to shop for groceries and other supplies.  Meanwhile the folks and I got to work on the cidering setup.  The biggest issue was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&blog=575588&post=461&subd=fiveislandsorchard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year 5 Photos by Sarah and Johanna</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Year 5: Prologue &#8211; getting there</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting the cider equipment to its home in Maine was a bit more of a project than I had hoped.  When we left Lebanon and moved back to the city, we gave our trusty 98 4x Tacoma to my parents, figuring that we only needed one car and they can always use another 4-season vehicle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&blog=575588&post=449&subd=fiveislandsorchard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holly&#8217;s videos from the weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HG took some short videos of the hardware in action &#8211; see http://www.youtube.com/user/HollyGates.
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		<title>Fifth Annual Cider Weekend &#8211; Overview</title>
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The fifth annual cider weekend took place October 23-25 in Five Islands, Maine.  Thanks to all the participants for generous contributions of time, expertise, equipment, apples, and comestibles, despite adventures, trials and tribulations, the event was a smashing success &#8211; literally.  It&#8217;ll take a few posts to tell the whole story, but here are some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&blog=575588&post=434&subd=fiveislandsorchard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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