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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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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Chicken Pot Pies and Memories
Fall Waning Back to School Moon Before the Vikings game on Sunday I made two chicken pot pies, whole pies filled with chicken, vegetables and a thickened vegetable broth made in the process. These are my second and third meat pies and I find I enjoy making them as much as I do soup. Something […]
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