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 Waxing Flower Moon<\/p>\n
Whew.\u00a0 First quiet moments since 5:45 am.\u00a0 Kate and I got up, ate breakfast and headed out for the Northstar station.\u00a0 The plan:\u00a0 put Kate on the Northstar and I return home to get ready for my tours.\u00a0 However.\u00a0 Those of us in our golden years have something we take with us that is more precious than money–our meds.\u00a0 In Kate’s case we weren’t sure she had packed them.\u00a0 So we turned around for home.<\/p>\n
She needed gas in the truck, so, assuming we would need to go into the City, I stopped to get gas.\u00a0 Kate looked for the meds.\u00a0 They were there.\u00a0 We might make the next station stop.\u00a0 So, quick like a bunny we hit the road again, pulling into the Coon Rapid’s station just a bit ahead of the train.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 It was on the opposite set of tracks heading south.\u00a0 Kate would have had to climb several stairs, scurry across the walkway, then descend a number of stairs.\u00a0 Scurrying is not part of Kate’s repertoire right now.<\/p>\n
So I drove her into the LRT station at 1st ave and 5th street where she boarded the Hiawatha line bound for Lindbergh terminal.<\/p>\n
Back home.\u00a0 With much less time than I’d thought.\u00a0 I can still scurry.\u00a0 So I did.\u00a0 Shower, dress, review tour notes, drive back into the city for the tours.\u00a0 Great kids, good tours.\u00a0 Worthwhile in many ways.<\/p>\n
Over to Mother Earth Gardens to pick up leeks, some herbs and some marigolds.\u00a0 Before that though I ate lunch at a coffee house right across the street.\u00a0 This was full of denizens of the Longfellow neighborhood, looking at home in a genuine third space, a young woman reading a book, another watching her two kids as they burrowed through a large pile of toys.\u00a0 The clerk, a tatooed young woman said, “My back is much better.\u00a0 She did much better work on the back than she did on the arm.\u00a0 But, what the heck, it’s only permanent.”\u00a0 Wry laugh.\u00a0 She had a short blue cocktail party dress and cowboy boots.<\/p>\n
After buying some plants, I drove back home.\u00a0 Took a nap.\u00a0 Got up at 3:30.\u00a0 Ate a snack and tried to figure what I needed for the bees.\u00a0 A few things yet to do.\u00a0 I felt pressured, since I had expected the bees on Saturday.\u00a0 When I feel pressured, I get confused, short-tempered and generally perform below expectations.\u00a0 On my into the grocery store to pick up a spray bottle (which doesn’t work) and a four pound sack of sugar I felt that knot of worry, a diffuse sensation of not quite having things together.<\/p>\n
A question I had not asked before flashed through my mind.\u00a0 Why do I react this way when I feel pressured?\u00a0 I don’t have an answer, but I want to get one, find a way to calm myself and get into a less distracted space.<\/p>\n
Another 45 minutes over to Stillwater to pick up the bees at Nature’s Nectar.\u00a0 I liked the folks there.\u00a0 When I drove in the circular driveway, there was a garage with its door open.\u00a0 The garage had packages of bees stacked on pallets with a few strays flying and buzzing through the air.\u00a0 There was also a pallet load of pro-sweetener, a pre-mixed sugar water used for feeding new hives.\u00a0 I’ll mix my own.\u00a0 That’s what the sugar and the spray bottle were for.<\/p>\n
Another 45 minutes back home, but this time with\u00a0 7,000 buzzing passengers and their fertile Myrtle, the queen.\u00a0 Tomorrow morning I’ll level out a foundation and put them in place.\u00a0 I had planned to put them the new hives in the orchard, but I’m rethinking that now and may end up putting them where the current colony is.<\/p>\n
The bee guy said I can go ahead and do a complete reversal tomorrow with my current colony and plan to divide in a week or so.\u00a0 He has queens already.\u00a0 The season is about two weeks ahead of normal.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, now I’m gonna kick back, then crank up for the bees tomorrow AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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