Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon Whew. The new queen came today in a perforated UPS box, complete with a court of five worker bees. After spraying them with sugar water, I took them out to the honey house where I pushed in the cork at the end of her wooden home, inserted a marshmallow […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon After checking the parent colony with the queen excluder in, I found larvae in the top hive box. That’s evidence of the queen. That meant I shifted the middle hive box over to the new foundation and bottom board. A syrup feeder pail went on top of the new, child colony. […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon Groceries this morning. I had to get some items for a 13 bean chili recipe I had underway. It was a lot of beans and it made a lot of chili. A lot. I finished that up after I got home. A nap, then I had to attend to a mission […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon The drought took a hit last night and this morning. We had almost an inch of rain and it all fell right in the window when I needed to hive my bees. Wouldn’t you know? Today had a bit of the comic routine to it. I got up this morning ready […]
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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, living areas above garages, sort of like the San Francisco versions. A middle-class to affluent […]
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