Lughnasa Full Artemis Moon Still waiting on the extracting equipment though I imagine it will arrive soon. Then, setting up the honey house with the extractor and the capping knife and the capping container. I’ll move some things around, get ready for winter storage of honey supers, put in a solid table for handling supers […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon The potato bed now has three bags of composted manure dug into it and the leek, sugar snap, bok choy bed has one and one more coming. Kate has weeded several beds including the herb spiral and the sun trap. It all looks better with the weeds gone. I found the […]
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Spring Awakening Moon Checked on the bees today. They needed syrup so I put in two pitchers full. They also needed another pollen patty. The colony looks healthy. Lots of bees hard at work. No stings. I have a few things to check on in terms of what I need to do now. Got all […]
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Spring Waxing Awakening Moon Out the door to the grocery store. It must be Saturday. Finished revising the presentation for tomorrow morning and I’ll post it later today. Kate’s off at work, a now unusual Saturday for her. She’s begun experiencing the old aches and pains, the ones from before the surgery that were brought […]
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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 way up through the leaves and other detritus from last falls end of the growing […]
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