{"id":18008,"date":"2013-01-19T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18008"},"modified":"2013-01-19T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T20:04:17","slug":"bees-and-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18008","title":{"rendered":"Bees and Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \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 Cold Moon<\/p>\n<p>Checked the bees this am. \u00a0A midwinter are you still alive check. \u00a0Colony 2. \u00a0No. \u00a0As I&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frame-with-honey-and-larvae-may-2012-1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-18009\" title=\"frame with honey and larvae may 2012 1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frame-with-honey-and-larvae-may-2012-1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frame-with-honey-and-larvae-may-2012-1000.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frame-with-honey-and-larvae-may-2012-1000-148x300.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a>expected. \u00a0It was weak going in to the winter and even though I fed them a lot at the end of fall I doubted their supply. \u00a0Colony 1, though, the ornery one is still vital. \u00a0I needed to know now because this is the time to order package bees. \u00a0I have to decide whether to order one \u00a0package or two. \u00a0Leaning toward one since the parent colony, colony 1, will be a divide in May, leaving me with three anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Outside for the first time in a while. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to get my winter hiking legs back over the coming weeks since I&#8217;m planning an inn to inn hiking vacation, a belated 65th birthday trip. \u00a0Got to be sure I can go the distance. \u00a0I know my aerobic conditioning is in good shape, but it&#8217;s all short term work, no longer than an hour. \u00a0Got to work up to day long hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure yet whether I&#8217;m going to England, Scotland, Wales or somewhere here in the US though I&#8217;m leaning towards the Isle of Skye.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I might just go to Gettysburg, then to D.C. to see the Pre-Raphaelite show at the National Gallery and maybe hop the train up to Philly to see the Barnes. \u00a0Still thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \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 Cold Moon Checked the bees this am. \u00a0A midwinter are you still alive check. \u00a0Colony &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bees and Hikes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1268,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18011,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18008\/revisions\/18011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}