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based businesses with marketing assistance.\u00a0 A woman gave a presentation on cooking with honey.\u00a0 How to make truffles.\u00a0 Uh-oh.\u00a0 They were really good.\u00a0 Not a healthful food, but my were they tasty.<\/p>\nSpring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Waxing Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n
Hobby Bee Keepers tonight.\u00a0 Kate and I heard a presentation on Minnesota Grown, a very interesting initiative by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that supports local food based businesses with marketing assistance.\u00a0 A woman gave a presentation on cooking with honey.\u00a0 How to make truffles.\u00a0 Uh-oh.\u00a0 They were really good.\u00a0 Not a healthful food, but my were they tasty.<\/p>\n
The hobby beekeepers have a farmer look, a rural feel, even though there are many urban and suburban beekeepers.\u00a0 Guys with hat line tans, checked shirts and blue jeans; woman with sensible cloths and no make up.\u00a0 Tonight I learned what to do with all the honey I have left over from the demise of my two colonies; use it four frames at a time to feed my new package bees.<\/p>\n
The night was clear and warmish.\u00a0 Today was busy, as was yesterday and as tomorrow and Thursday will be.\u00a0 My energy is up and I’m having fun.\u00a0 I’m glad we’ve had the warm weather and a chance to get into the garden.<\/p>\n
About that land my sister, brother and I own in West Texas.\u00a0 Probably not gonna be used for a housing development.\u00a0 Forty acres of mesquite and sand, plus, natives assured me, quite a few rattlesnakes.\u00a0 Taste like chicken I’m told.\u00a0 A certain, lonely hermit part of me finds West Texas desirable because of its emptiness, its vast spaces and little civilization.\u00a0 I loved Marfa and could imagine a winter retreat down there in Imperial that could serve as a base for outings to Great Bend, Marfa, Guadaleupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n
Think I’ll send Mark down there to scout it out, maybe hire a surveyor.<\/p>\n
West Texas<\/a><\/p>\n The 2010 Census confirmed what anyone passing through the scrublands of West Texas already knew: People are leaving, and no one is taking their place, even with oil at more than $100 a barrel. The people who remain often drive an hour or more to visit a doctor, buy a pair of jeans or see a\u00a0movie.<\/p>\n So you might wonder why anyone is still there, in this place where natural beauty is defined by dry creek beds and scraggly mesquite, where public transit is a school bus and Starbucks is a punch\u00a0line.<\/p>\n “The greatest sunsets. The stars are just right there. You hear the coyotes howling,” says Billy Burt Hopper<\/a>, sheriff of Loving County, home to 82 people and the least-populated county in the United\u00a0States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Hobby Bee Keepers tonight.\u00a0 Kate and I heard a presentation on Minnesota Grown, a very interesting initiative by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that supports local food based businesses with marketing assistance.\u00a0 A woman gave a presentation on cooking with honey.\u00a0 How to make truffles.\u00a0 … Continue reading Bee Diary: April 12, 2011<\/span>