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Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0 (Pic:\u00a0 Leadville, Co Halloween 2009)<\/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\u00a0 Waxing Flower Moon<\/p>\n
Kate’s off for Denver, excited as a small girl at Christmas.\u00a0 Seeing her grandkids makes this lady levitate.\u00a0 Even her dinged up right hip seems a bit better this morning, partly from anticipation and partly from the steroid injection she had on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0 (Pic:\u00a0 Leadville, Co Halloween 2009)<\/p>\n
It will be a busy time for me while she’s away.\u00a0 I have two tours later this morning.\u00a0 Then it’s over to Mother Garden to pick up a few things I need for this year’s garden:\u00a0 bush bean seeds, leek transplants, coriander, dill, cosmos, marigolds.<\/p>\n
Back at home I’ll have to have a long nap to make up for getting up this morning at 5:45.\u00a0 After that I have to buy more sugar and a spray bottle for the new bees, put foundations on the frames for their hive box and level up a spot for their hive.\u00a0 Later, after 4:30 pm, I’ll drive out to Stillwater and pick them up, bring them home and hive them.<\/p>\n
Hiving a new package involves spreading the 2 pound package of worker bees over the floor of the hive box, then gently releasing the queen, replacing the four frames withdrawn, carefully (to avoid killing the queen which is bad) and putting a bit of pollen patty and a feeder on top.\u00a0 That’s where the sugar comes in.\u00a0 The spray bottle is for the trip home and the time lapse between then and when I get them in the hive.\u00a0 It helps them stay nourished and calm.<\/p>\n
On Saturday I have to figure out why Rigel and Vega dug a large plastic pipe out of the ground, what, if any, function it serves, repair it, cover it over, this time with a board or something that will resist further digging and hope they don’t go all round the yard\u00a0 digging up irrigation pipes.\u00a0 I think they dig when they hear the sound of the water running through the pipes.\u00a0 Oh, boy! Oh, boy!\u00a0 Something’s there.\u00a0 Something’s there.\u00a0 Gotta get it.\u00a0 Right now.<\/p>\n
With that work done I have to get back to amending the soil in the raised beds and planting seed.\u00a0 If I have time, I’ll get in some weeding, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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