{"id":10081,"date":"2011-04-18T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10081"},"modified":"2016-05-14T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:57:50","slug":"i-roll-over-on-my-belly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10081","title":{"rendered":"I Roll Over On My Belly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 Full Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 Enough.\u00a0 Uncle.\u00a0 I give.\u00a0 I yield.\u00a0 I roll over on my belly.\u00a0 Please let us have spring.\u00a0 Snow?\u00a0 More snow?\u00a0 Just when the Himalayan inspired mounds of soot black snow have begun their glacial retreat?\u00a0 This is not insult to injury, but insult to insult.\u00a0 Well, all right.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s coming anyhow, but could this be the last one for this season?\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 I have plants that need to get back to growing.<\/p>\n<p>T&#8217;ai C&#8217;hi.\u00a0 Coming along.\u00a0 I am within one move of learning how to grasp the sparrow&#8217;s tail, then one more, the long whip, of having the basic moves in some sort of order and execution.\u00a0 My teacher says, insists, promises it will all get easier.\u00a0 But, it took her, she also says, 30 years to get her form to its current level.\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure I have 30 years of T&#8217;ai C&#8217;hi practice in me.\u00a0 On the other hand, maybe with T&#8217;ai C&#8217;hi&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>T&#8217;ai C&#8217;hi feels like Latin for the body.\u00a0 It&#8217;s taking all of my concentration to stay with it when I practice and the learning is slow.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s that radiation problem in Japan.\u00a0 Good news on it.\u00a0 The power company says it can have things cleaned up in 6-9 months.\u00a0 6-9 months?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>This is the time to move the bees.\u00a0 Bee colonies do not like to have their homes moved once they&#8217;ve learned where they are.\u00a0 Even a move of 2 feet can be too much for them.\u00a0 If you want to move existing colonies, you have to do it in slow, incremental steps.\u00a0 Right now, since I have no bees, I can put the hive boxes wherever I want.\u00a0 Still mulling.\u00a0 I want to put them in the orchard, but that will entail switching out the gear from the front garden shed to the back shed where I currently have all the bee equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Full Bee Hiving Moon OK.\u00a0 Enough.\u00a0 Uncle.\u00a0 I give.\u00a0 I yield.\u00a0 I roll over on my belly.\u00a0 Please let us have spring.\u00a0 Snow?\u00a0 More snow?\u00a0 Just when the Himalayan inspired mounds of soot black snow have begun their glacial retreat?\u00a0 This is not insult to injury, but insult to insult.\u00a0 Well, all right.\u00a0 If &hellip; 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