<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328652.post-111599253265443671</id><published>2005-05-13T09:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-13T10:04:29.500-04:00</updated><title type='text'>gardening part 4</title><content type='html'>i'm sorry...but just have to post a picture of my first rose bloom of the year.  was at lowes a couple of months back when someone got on the intercom to announce all roses 90% off.  well, i'm not really into the hassle of growing roses in this part of the country, but being the sucker for a good deal.  i mean, $1 for a rose plant?  i'd be a &lt;strong&gt;fool&lt;/strong&gt; not to get...a few.  well, i planted one in a pot on my back deck and here's my first bloom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/186/1709/640/DSCN1547.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/186/1709/320/DSCN1547.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;and speaking of accordions (???), my buddy bill plunk and his wife are coming over tonight.  bill took accordion lessons as a kid (it was a real babe magnet), and is bringing his accordion over to show me how to use all those left hand buttons.  going to grill some sausage, make it a real bavarian evening.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8328652-111599253265443671?l=timbeard.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timbeard.blogspot.com/feeds/111599253265443671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8328652&amp;postID=111599253265443671' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8328652/posts/default/111599253265443671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8328652/posts/default/111599253265443671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timbeard.blogspot.com/2005/05/gardening-part-4.html' title='gardening part 4'/><author><name>timbeard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14919685436293317849</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='11089876338744548950'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry>