Spring Waxing Flower Moon A bruising middle finger, swollen passes the inflammation onto the top of the hand. It itches. This aspect of bee-keeping has its annoying moments. Like using same finger to hit the i with regularity, or the … Continue reading
Spring Flowering Moon The netaphim ruined last year by dogs Rigel and Vega has repairs. The repairs sit safely inside fences that Rigel has shown either no interest or no capability to penetrate. They should last. The bees will wait … Continue reading
Spring Waxing Awakening Moon Sunny, but cool though warm weather seems fated to come our way. Ice out has advanced on Round Lake though there is still rough, weak ice over most of its surface. Many daffodils have speared their … Continue reading
Imbolc New Moon (Awakening) An all day Latin day, this time 3rd conjugation verbs, the notorious bad boys of Latin grammar. Due to a weak vowel they got jiggered around by spoken Latin until they’ve become most unusual, irregular in … Continue reading
Imbolc Waning Wild Moon Big news. The dead live. Or, rather, the bee colony I declared dead last fall turns out to be very much alive. I checked this afternoon. That means the whole bee thing looks more and more … Continue reading
Summer Waning Summer Moon Today the queen excluder goes on my three hives after I shift the bottom to the top and the top to the bottom. On top of the queen excluder goes two honey supers. A honey super … Continue reading
Waning Days of Beltane Waning Dyan Moon We near midsummer; it’s only 15 hours away. The Summer Solstice, the hot sister of my favorite holiday, the Winter Solstice, comes to Minnesota at 12:47 am tomorrow, the early hours of father’s … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Flower Moon And on the second day of May we turned our garage into a retail establishment. This reminds me of my first ever off the continent trip to Bogota. The neighborhood of our small hotel was residential, … Continue reading
Spring Waning Seed Moon This morning I leveled a foundation for the bee hive. Tomorrow I’ll paint the hive boxes and the base with a light colored latex paint and let them dry. I also ordered a smoker and a … Continue reading