Spring Bee Hiving Moon In these months, when I go to bed, the full moon shines in our bedroom window. It keeps me awake sometimes, […]
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Spring Full Flower Moon Under the full flower moon I inspected my new colony of bees. In this instance I checked the frames for larvae. I couldn’t tell if they were there or not. This is important because it indicates the presence or absence of a laying queen. I’ll check again on Saturday. The queen […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon The new dog food must be a mistake. The whippets did not eat at all this morning, the big dogs ate little. Hilo (our smallest whippet) is in her crate with what I take to be a belly ache since she doesn’t look seriously ill. How do I know? Well, I […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Kate made pasta sauce(s) from our tomatoes. She also made an eggplant (ours) parmesan that we had with one of her sauces along with a toss salad of our tomatoes, basil and mozzarella. Pretty tasty. Kate has preserved, conserved, cooked and sewed on her two days off. In this environment where […]
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