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		<title>Trying to Find the Right Ground Cover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In two months, we have already gone through three different ground covers for our new garden patio makeover. AAAGGHHH! Much as I hate to admit it, a lot of gardening is trial and error. And the little strips we have are causing us a lot of trial.
We designed the new patio in such a way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=409&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Patio Makeover Completed in 10 Days!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have added 300 more feet to our living space by completely transforming a gravel back patio into a pocket garden, a beautiful mini-Eden! It&#8217;s my Father&#8217;s Day gift to my husband &#8212; who wanted a lovely, no-care yard.
As of the day of the unveiling, we were not completely no-care yet. Bill spent the day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=348&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pitifulgardener.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/small-patio-makeover-complete-in-10-days/</link>
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		<title>Small Patio Makeover Day 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To recap: the goal was a new patio by Father&#8217;s Day. My husband Bill was not to do any of the work. I thought the project could be done in a week, so had started in plenty of time I thought. Because I wanted a fireplace installed, that added an extra day and a half [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=346&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Patio Makeover Day 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main crew finished up yesterday. Basically our outdoor room was constructed in 8 days. That was with a professional, talented crew of five. It would have taken us all summer and fall &#8212; maybe on into the winter to get it done. Well, if I haven&#8217;t even been able to keep up a blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=342&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pitifulgardener.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/small-patio-makeover-day-9/</link>
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		<title>Small Patio Makeover Day 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working a new job since early August has certainly pulled me away from blogging about this patio makeover that was completed in the summer. We&#8217;ve been enjoying it all this time, but I still want to lay out the process so it can be duplicated. So it&#8217;s Sunday night, but before going to bed I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=338&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pitifulgardener.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/small-patio-makeover-day-8/</link>
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		<title>Small Patio Makeover Day 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gads &#8212; I have no been offline six weeks! I accepted a part time job in August, that turned into a full time job. Lots to do and plenty of long hours. So we were very glad that our little pocket garden had been completed and was functioning on its own. Although, seeing as how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=331&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pitifulgardener.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/day-seven-small-patio-makeover/</link>
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		<title>Patio Makeover Day 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to look at the posting date, you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;ve been offline for over a month! The project did get done in time (Father&#8217;s Day, June 21), but I couldn&#8217;t get back to writing about it! I was crazy busy working on it all that day, as we were leaving on vacation the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=328&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pitifulgardener.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/patio-makeover-day-six/</link>
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		<title>Patio Makeover Day 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was off to a conference on this Friday &#8212; the day I originally fantasized would be the culmination of my small patio makeover. I think I had unrealistic expectations because for the first time I was hiring experienced help. This was NOT a do-it-yourself project over endless weekends and months. It was going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=321&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pitifulgardener.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/patio-makeover-day-5/</link>
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		<title>Patio Makeover Day 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things pitiful gardeners should contemplate is how much they like or don&#8217;t like to garden. Or how much time they&#8217;ll spend at it realistically &#8212; especially the specific chores we don&#8217;t like so much. We shouldn&#8217;t bite off more than we can chew.
In the past, I&#8217;ve had more time to do this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=304&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pitifulgardener.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/patio-makeover-day-4/</link>
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		<title>Patio Makeover Day 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we&#8217;ve mostly been do-it-yourselfers for 32 years of marriage and four houses plus several rentals, it&#8217;s rather strange to hand over a project with so many components to someone else. Already there have been lots of little decisions made that I would have done differently.  I&#8217;d have taken weeks to make some of them! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitifulgardener.wordpress.com&blog=2700251&post=281&subd=pitifulgardener&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pitifulgardener.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/patio-makeover-day-3/</link>
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