Lugnasa Hiroshima Moon
This has been a down August for me. Still slogging through molasses. Only bursts of energy, clarity. Don’t like it. Doesn’t seem to be much I can do about it. One foot in front of the other.
Worked all morning on Missing. Right now I’m summarizing chapters, creating character bios and defining scenes. The result will be an outline with chapter summaries and a read through, quick, yes, but still a read through. Once the read through is done and all chapters summarized, I’ll be ready to start working on Loki’s Children.
When that comes, my days will be Missing revision, writing Loki’s children, translating Latin and the occasional tour. Hoping that I will get assigned to the terracotta warrior show since I’m prepared already for Qin Shi Huang-Di and the rise of the Qin dynasty.
Right now all this sounds too much, but a hold over from the days of salaried work is a good work ethic once I’m clear on where I’m going. That means I’ll keep going.
The bees. Dejected, yes. Defeated, no. Last year I decided I would buy packages, build up the colonies and take the honey they produced, all of it, including their winter stores, then start over again the next year. This was partly a response to difficulty over-wintering bees, partly to mite loads. Fail.
So. I have to look at this a first year project, in which case I have one colony, the aggressive one, that will have plenty of honey and brood for the upcoming winter. The other, the less active one, had, today, brood. Surprise! They must have swarmed earlier and created a new queen. Not sure right now how to encourage them through the winter, but I’ll find out. If the strong colony produces any extra honey, I’ll give it to the weak one.
