Beltane\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 Waning Planting Moon<\/p>\n
A sleepy, rainy day.\u00a0 After a very busy Monday, I settled into the Latin and finished off chapter 18 in Wheelock.\u00a0 It took most of the day with a couple of instances (well, maybe more than a couple) of head scratching and paging back and forth to find out what I was not understanding.<\/p>\n
Kate and I have settled into our familiar and comfortable routines.\u00a0 She went out today to have her nails done while I labored in the scriptorium.<\/p>\n
Tonight is the Minnesota Hobby Beekeepers Association meeting at Borlaug Hall.\u00a0 I feel both mildly competent and wildly confused with both the beekeeping and the Latin.\u00a0 I’ve now overwintered a package of bees, made a divide into parent and child colonies and hived a package of bees by myself.\u00a0 The smoker stays lit for the duration of my work in the bee yard and I have not repeated my various stings event.<\/p>\n
Yet.\u00a0 When I pulled the frames from the parent colony and moved one to the package colony and one to the divide, I felt very unsure of what I had done.\u00a0 Still am.\u00a0 I look at the frames and I can tell the pollen filled cells from the honey filled cells.\u00a0 I know what larvae look like and I can identify a drone cell and its unique domed structure.\u00a0 Queen or swarm cells are also apparent to me.\u00a0 Even so, I cannot tell healthy frames from troubled ones.<\/p>\n
I get addled about what I’m doing because of the bees buzzing around and forget what I’ve done like I did yesterday with the reverse of the parent colony.\u00a0 I have no clue about what to do with the honey the bees are making, I’m just imagining that I’ll learn about that in time to do it.<\/p>\n
In the Latin I miss obvious things and pick up on some obscure ones like word meanings, verb forms and case endings for nouns and adjectives.\u00a0 I have two index cards filled with words, mostly adverbs and conjunctions, that I can’t remember.\u00a0\u00a0 I puzzle over a translation, no luck, no luck, no luck, then a bright light.\u00a0 Ah ha.<\/p>\n
Learning has this daunting vulnerability to it.\u00a0 Without placing yourself in a situation where you don’t know what you’re your doing, you cannot learn.\u00a0 It keeps a guy humble that’s for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beltane\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 Waning Planting Moon A sleepy, rainy day.\u00a0 After a very busy Monday, I settled into the Latin and finished off chapter 18 in Wheelock.\u00a0 It took most of the day with a couple of instances (well, maybe more than a couple) of head scratching and paging back and forth to find out what I … Continue reading Bees, Latin and Learning<\/span>